The evening times., 1897-02-08
Fourteen Years Old John Jones
Fatally Shot Robert.
THE MURDERER In CUSTODY
The Boys Quarreled Over a Piece
of Bread and the Younger Got IA
House, Where They Lived, and
Deliberately Fired at His Relative.


pital in the First precinct patrol wagon
nd died within five minutes after being ad-
mitted The shooting occurred at about
40 O'Clock and at 11:20 O'Clock the
murderer walked into the Twelfth street
station house and surrendered himself to
Lieut.. Aniss and Sergt. Acton. The boys
are colored.
The 81 ooting occurred at the house of
Dr. George q Morris, No. S15 Fourteenth
street northwest. The two lads, their
mother and a sister, eighteen years old
VITO lis a student at Howard University,
live there. Mrs a, ones is lCusekeepcr for
the physician. otCrt sold IapeIs ara did
such 0 ID jobs S Le could find. John acted
as bell 10y N the house ard sold papers in
his leisure hours.
There were no immediate witnesses of
the tragedy. The mother heard the boys
QuarreIng, and tried 10 separate them.
John had a piece OF bread that Robert
tried to take away from him. The smaller
brother says the other struck him over the
eye. The larger one went away, and John
ran upstairs to the doctors bedroom and
got a revolver, every chamber of which
was loaded, from the mantel. The
weapon was Of the latest pattern, and
was easily discharged when not locked.
Ten minutes later, so John told sergt.
Acton at the station house, he came down.
stairs and found that his brother had re-
turned, and was sitting on the steps leac-
ing from the house TO an entryway in the
rear The boy advanced toward his
brother, and raised the pistol to his head.
Now yoI see what | could do to you"
he said. Il could kill you if l chose"
DO it then; do it them" repeated the
brother.
4 report was heard, and the bullet went
crashing into the skull OF the brother. The
murderer ran down through the entryway
and escaped from the place through an
alley in the rear OF the house. The mother
heard the shot and ran to the side of her
son, who was lying beside the steps I'M
conscious. Patromen Emmert and Cowne
heard the sho- from the street and hurried
To the spot Immediately after the mother.
call was sent to the station house and
the patrol wagon Immediately wered-
The unconscious youth was taken to
the Emergency Hospital with the greatest
possible speed He was still breathing
when laid upon the operating table, and
his injuries The path of the bullet was a
remarkable one. Ii had entered the top
Of the head, back Of the center OF the
forehead. Another hole within an inch
and a half OF the point OF entrance showed
that the bullet had penetrated the brain
and been diverted and turned completely
in its course, and then came out near the
point OF entrance.
But one shot was heard, and there were
five loaded chambers and an empty one
i'm the revolver that was after ward taken
from the young murderer. Not more than
five minutes had elapsed after Robert was
placed Oh the table before life was extinct.
The body was removed to the hospital
morguc and Coroner Hammett notified.
As soon as the police at the First pre-
cinct were mott fled, Lieut.. AmiSs in
structed his men TO take immediate steps
for the capture Of the murderer. The force
was furnished with description and search
was begun for him Within less than two
hours after the shooting he entered the
door Of the station house He was imme-
diateiy recognized by Sergt. Acton.
Here is the boy now, said the officer
Yep. 20 got it right, boss; l shot my
brother. said the lad.
Wv here's the pistol?''
In reply, Young Jones drew the weapon
from under his vest and handed it TO the
policeman. He was taken in custody, and
carried back to cell No. s, known as
murderer's cell
Jones il of small build and ight colored
He was rather neatly dressed and smoked
cigarettes almost constantly in his cell.
One eve was blackencd, and he claimed
that his brother struck him there. He
said his brother had a beer bottle in his
hand with which he threatened to hit
him just before the shooting. When told
that his brother was dead, he looked up
and coolly asked, lis that sO?'
A moment later lie inteTposed, lis he
dead now?' and apparently dismissed the
topic from his mind. In further conversation
lie said:
LAS soon as l shot him i ran through
the entryway and eot out in tn Galley. No
one saw me do it. l heard my mother
come down the steps as l ran, but i did
rot turn around to look at her. l only saw
my brother as he fell from the steps.
After got out in the alley L went
down the street and followed the Avenue
and Seventeenth street to the White Lot,
and through there TO the river. l wan
dered along the river front until reached
Long Bridge. | didn't have any place
in view TO go, and knew. anyhow that the
Police would get me, so l turned around
and came up 10 the station house. l did
rot see anybody knew on the way"
Jones did not appear particularly nervous
in his cell, and said his only trouble was
that he was hungry. He was arrested once
before for being disopierly, and his brother
was also arrested once on a similar charge.