The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-11
SAW DEADLY
SHOTS FIRED
The Younger Mrs.
Parmenter's
Evidence.

The actual trial OF Edward Mitchell
Jones for murder was started before
Judge Gear Monday morning. There
was a crowded courtroom all day.
Relatives of the accused as we'll as of
the two women he Is charged with hav-
ing killed were present.
Attorney General Lorrin Andrews
opened the case for the prosecution,
saying that in his opinion the facts to
be proved would show cold blooded
murder Exception to this remark was
taken by j. ]. Dunno, who appears
with A. G. NJ. Robertson for defendant,
and the court instructed the jury to
disregard the expression of opinion.
The Attorney General proceeded to tell
the story of the commission of the
crime with which Jones is charged,
which he intended to have corroborated
! by evidence, beginning with the divorce
defendants wife procured against him
| for cruelty and ending with the shoot
ing of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Parmen-
| ter, and herself shortly after midnight
of Saturday, August %, the former dy-
ing three days afterward and the lat
ter instantly.
Doctors Miner and Walters We're call
ed to testify to the death of Mrs. Par
menter and the wound that caused it.
Police Captain Parker told of the
alarm and the pursuit, ending with the
surrender of Jones.
The bullet that is alleged to have
killed Mrs. Parmenter was admitted
against the objection of defendants
counsel, who noted an exception to the
courts ruling.
PIXLEY'S EVIDENCE.
Conductor Pixley of the Rapid Tran
sit, on whose car Jones rode to Puma
hou and back to Pensacola street on
the eve Of the tragedy, repeated prac
tically his evidence before the coro
nerS jury. When cross-eXamined
from the transcript, he said in answer
to one question that if such a thing
was there it was printed wrong. One
of his last answers, when asked If he
testified in a certain way was, II must
have" He told about his running
away when he saw man coming over
a fence with a gun, only six feet away
from him, but said he would have gone
into the Parmenter premises If the po-
liceman who arrived on the scene
on a bicycle had done SO. The
policeman took but one foot off the
pedals when he halted at the place.
This was the officer who responded to
the telephone call of Mrs. Jones sent
from the Beretania pumping station.
Mrs. Marcus Parmenter, daughter
in-law of Mrs. Sarah Parmenter, was
clear and direct in her answers, though
often abruptly checked in the repeat
ing of words she heard from others.
She testified to hearing the voice OF
Jones threatening to kill Mrs. Sarah
Parmenter Immediately before the first
shot was fired. You are the cause
of all my trouble and I am going to
kill you,' the voice said. She de-
scribed her mother-in-law as she saw
her later the same night, lying pros
trate with an eye protruding where
bullet struck her, and said she saw
her again the night she died. August
g. The witness heard Jones making
threats of killing about the time of
the divorce case or a few months be-
fore the shooting.
Cross-examined, Mrs. Parmenter said
she heard five shots in all. First there
were two close together then two
again when she saw the defendant
shoot Mrs. Jones, and then one after
she (witness) had set the lamp she
had been holding at the window upon
the table.
Mrs. Parmenter said she never spoke
to anyone about her testimony before
Yesterday in court. She did testify
at the inquest but had spoken to no
one outside about the evidence she
would give at the trial After the
shooting of Mrs. Jones she locked up
the two children in her own room.
She told the boy, who was asking
questions about his grandmother, to
keep still and if he heard footsteps
coming or she called out to him he
was to jump out of the window.
Did you noe tell the coroner's jury
that you did not see Jones and that
you only heard his voice."
IT did see him." was the answer.
Witness denied that she told the cor
oner's jury that she did not see Jones.
She was sure she testified to the
coroner's jury that she saw Jones shoot
his wife. He fired two shots at his
wife. She heard him say:
Now 1 got you at last, will kill
you"
AS soon as he finished speaking he
shot her.
with reference to the shooting of
Mrs. Parmenter, the witness said that
Mrs. Jones was at the time sitting In
the dining room by the window and
witness was standing beside her. This
was when the first shot was fired.
Then Mrs. Jones went out. Witness
took lamp and looked out. when she
saw the shooting of Mrs. Jones. She
described the location of the rooms,
close to each other, occupied by herself
and Mrs Jones that night.
pPIIItc AFTER SIX YEARS.-Mrs