The record-union., 1897-08-16

key and unlock the door, and then got
in. | saw that he was mad, and I COM
menced getting supper without taking
off my things. He commenced to abuse
me, and called me anything he could
think of, and accused me of having
been out with another man.
Il said Ed, there is no use Of keep
ing this up. I win leave you and
send for my things tomorrow He
said, You won't leave me alive and
he took the chicken out of my hand and
threw it on the floor. l picked it up
again and put it on the table. While
I was doing it he went into the bed
room. and as he came out he put his
hand to his hip and pulled out the
pistol and pointed it towards me. /
said, Good God! Ed! don't shoot me!
and took hold of his wrist to try and
keep him from doing so. / tried to get
the pistol away from him, for am
pretty strong, and in the struggle it
went off in some way and he fell. /
think he must have pulled it off in
trying to shoot me. I had no idea of
shooting him, and did not do it. Then
l went to the Police Station and told
them about it, That is all 1 can say,
and it is the truth.
I hear they are saying that I have
killed two or three men before. l did
kill u man in Stockton about five
years ago, and 1 did not deny it. I was
tried for it about four months after
ward and acquitted, as I showed it
different 1 did not shoot Ed. He shot
himself in the scuff1e in some way. If
l had done it l would not deny it,"
HER LANDLADY' S STORY.
The woman who keeps the lodging
house up stairs. from where Jones and
Del were keeping house, says that she
has only been acquainted with the lat
ter for a couple of weeks, having been
asked to help her when she was sick
About a week ago she heard her
SCiEdIliliSs anu ItdId 81 OOt,
and as he did so heard Mrs. Jones beg
him not to leave her, as she was in
great pain. She went down, and was
told by the woman that she was in a
delicate condition, and that Jones had
kicked her. A physician was called,
and she did not tell him of the kicking,
but he told her that she had hurt her
self badly by straining or lifting some
thing heavy. and it was doubtful if she
would be able to pull through.
He has beaten her every night for
the last two weeks said the landlady.
She showed me the marks of his fin
gers on her throat, and where he had
! cut her hip, and told me that she was
going to leave him. One night there
was so much noise that I pounded on
the floor, and they stopped. She asked
me next day what I pounded for, and
told her I did not want my dodgers
1 did. for he stopped choking her.
Il was asleep, and did not hear the
! shot this afternoon, but she came to
| my room and told me Mr.. Jones was
! shot, and asked me what she had bet
| ter do. I advised her to go straight to
! the Police Station and tell them about
it, and she did so. That is all I know
/ about it. I saw very little of them, as
they We're disconnected with this part
| of the house,
officer Douglas says that he has
known the woman about two years,
and that she has been at work steadily.
! She and Jones are the ones on account
of whom Jeff Mays was brought before
the United States Court not long ago
on a charge of using the mails for OBJ
/ scene purposes. She stated last night
that her mother was a colored woman,
and that she had negro blood in her
veins
Il hear they say I am a sister of
Annie Boyd" said she, "but it is not 50
I never saw her in my life, and do not
| know her"