The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-09
STABBED To DEATH
NELLIE JENKINS FATALLY WOUND
ED BY BERTHA JONES.
DIED AT GEORGIA INFIRMARY.
WOUNDED WOMAN EXPIRED AS
SHE WAS PLACED IN THE WARD.


The Jenkins WOman's Jealousy OF
Jim DeIiIIy's FOndness for Bertha
Jones the Inspiration of the TrOu-
BILE and the Cause of Her Death.
Came to See the Woman who Kill
ed Her and Began a Storm of
Abuse Endured for IA Time-The
Abuse Finally Aroused Jones Re-
sentiment and She Expressed II.
The Jenkins Woman struck Her
and She Used Her knife-NOw I'm
der Arrest.
Nellie Jenkins was stabbed in three
places in the. breast and neck by Ber-
tina Jones yesterday morning and died
at the Georgia InfImary a few min
utes after reaching there. Her slayer
is under arrest at the police station.
Both women are colored.
Jealousy of the seemingly uncertain
affections of Jim Delilly was the in
spiration of the trouble between the
two women and the immediate cause
of the Jenkins womans death. Delilly
apparently has made an effort to dis
tribute his attentions and affections be-
tween three women, instead of con-
filming them to one, and in this man
er induced the il-feeling that has
ended in a homicide.
The stabbing was done in Congress
lane, between Lincoln and Habersham
streets, near the house in which the
Jones woman has been living. Accounts
differ as to the degree of provocation
given by the woman who was killed.
TO her slayer, but there is no differ
ence as to the fact that some provoca-
ton was given by her and that she
was looking for trouble when she found
it.
The Slayer Arrested.
At $50 O'Clock in the morning a tele-
phone message to the police barracks
Informed the desk sergeant in charge
of the difficulty that had occurred and
the ambulance was sent at once to the
scene. The wounded woman was found
. in the drug store at the corner of
Broughton and Habersham streets,
and placed in the ambulance and be-
fore leaving Driver Bentlemann arrest
ed the woman who had done the stab
bling and carried her back to the sta
ton house
Some attention had already been
given the wounded woman and every |
effort was made to get her to the in
Urinary as soon as possible She had |
scarcely reached there, however and |
been removed to cot in the woman's
ward. before death from loss of blood |
ensued
In her cell at the station house. the
Jones woman told a Morning News re-
porter that she had been driven 10
use her knife in order to protect her
self, and that she had endured uncom-
plainingly the insults and threats of
jenkins, without any effort at retalia-
lion, for more than a week.
A jealous Quarrel.
According to her story, Nellie Jen-
kins and Lillian Frazier, the latter |
known generally as "Jellne," came to |
her house and began to curse and
abuse her. 1t was not the first visit |
OF the like character they had paid |
her for Jelline also has a claim upon |
Delilly's tickle affections, and had |
made common cause with Jenkins in |
the effort to establish the claim |
against Jones. The Jenkins and Fra |
zier women probably intended to get !
Jones out of the way and then fight |
1t out between themselves for Delilly's |
favor
The cursing and abusing continued |
for some minutes. and Jones paid lit |
tie attention to it. She was engaged |
upon her toilet at the time, and she |
calmly continued to dress. In the |
meantime Delilly, who rents a room |
in the same house in which the Jones |
woman has been living, emerged from |
the place and went out into the lane.
1t was he who then became the OBJ |
ject of jenkins jealous wrath. She de- |
clared he had forsaken and abandoned |
her for Jones and that she did not
propose to stand for it.
Oh go away, woman" said Delil- |
ly, and in company with Frazier, who
seemed perfectly willing to take adj
vantage of the dissensions of her riv-
ais, he proceeded down the lane.
Words Led to killing.
In the meantime the Jenkins woman
was still engaged in her effort to ex-
haust the walls of her wrath. Jones
Games out into the lane, and the ours
ing proceeded.
You'd better go way from me-" said
Bertha: you're going to get your
self into trouble"
The words had not long left her lips
before the Jenkins woman struck her
she began to use her knife. The weapon
she piled with such good will and
deadly effect is of the kind known
as The Father of the Barlows," and
has a blade about eight inches in
length. With every frenzied thrust it
went deep into the breast or neck of
the doomed woman. She tried to Crap
pie with her assailant and succeeded
in doing so. but her strength ebbed
with the steady flow of her blood and
she sank to the ground
The tones woman walked calmly
away and into her house, where she
changed her clothes. She made no eff
fort to escape arrest and submitted
quietly when the ambulance driver
made his appearance.
Claims Self Defense.
In her cell at the station house house
she told representative of the Morn
ing News that the Jenkins woman had
knife and that she had acted as she
had in self-defense. The story about
the knife is not verified by the accounts
of the difficulty given by Florrie
Washington and Oracle Glover, two
negro women who live in the house
and were eye-witnesses of the diff
Guilty. They do, however, substantiate
the Jones woman statement in every
other particular.
The Washington and Glover women
was arrested soon after the homicide