The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-19
NIGHT the city Is quiet and there IS
sign of any trouble brewing
PEOPLE RENO THREATENEp.

PEOPLE BEING THREATENED.
II j. reported thai several people have
heen threatened on account Of the events
growing out of the Jones murder. but there
has been no direct evidence that there
threats were serious or are being scr'
ously considered.
mr. Vim. Harris. for whose remark th2t
he coroner's Jury was right IN gong INTO
[the trouble and getting facts provoked
an attempt a. an attack on hun by J. {.
pfackmar 4 former tobacco auctlonecr.
swore out n peace warrant against b'A1A
man. Besides this il il reported that
prof. Churchwell and Others have recelF
ed anonymous letters with threats IN
them. The ease OF Harris and Biackm~n
viii be heard on Monday.
In the report given of the testimony pre-
scented before the coroner's jury Mayor
! Doane Herring stated that he had been
told by Geo. Whitley that Mr.. Luther
Barnes was one OF the committee send ng
| word to Jones to get out or town. Ihc
friends OF Mr.. Barnes, as We'll AZ MT
Barnes himself deny all connection with
| the matter. The authorities attach TO
Importance to the statement Of White,
made while he was drinking, that Mr..
| Barnes was involved in the matter.
Mr.. VIII T. Clark was mentioned as
coming up the street after the killing
| with a man Mr.. j. NJ. Leath thought had
run from the Fryar building. Mr.. Clark
lhad started to the depot to meet 4 reia'
tive on a late night train, and called
| Policeman Mumford at Policeman Shaken
1burg's request. Later he came up the
street from the depot and had no connec-
| ton with the crowd accused of being the
conspirators in the murder.
THE MEN INDICTED.
The eleven men whom the grand jury
indicted for the horrible murder Of Jones
range in age from 2S to 60. In the party
are sturdy young men, broad glrthed men
Of middle age and men whose hair :
| white and whose faces are scanned with
| the wrinkles of many years.
| John Allen, the man who was shot Is
a bar-keeper, about twenty-eight years
| old. He is of heavy frame and rudy
cheek, evidently very strong. j. B. Piver,
who helped carry Allen to the Sanitarlum
is a fish dealer, well-to-do, is about forty
seven years old and his hair Is showing
heavy streaks of gray. George Whitley,
\ the bearer Of the notice of leave town to
| Jones is driver Of the hose wagon OF the
Wilson fire company and Is about thirty
three years old. w. w. Parnes is Il car
penter, grey haired, aged cay flfty-siX.
w. H. Rich is a black haired able
bodied man Of about thirty-eight and IS
the superintendent of the oil mill here al
a salary stated to be from 500 a month
to Sc a day. Gill Ward is the Oldest man
in the lot. He has a head well whiteped
and is about sixty five years old. He is
a barkeeper and has been tried twice
in his life for murder. They are the
men still in jail, while those allowed to
give bond for appearance at court are W.
p. Groom, who came here from Whining
ton and has clerked in a bar. He IS
about twenty-eight years old and was in
dicted by both the coroner's and the
grand jury. OF those whom the coroncr's
jury did not name there are Samuel j.
Walls, about thirty-four years old, a NOR
chant tailor, well educated and with many
friends, J. T. Bass, a farmer about forty
years old, John Pittman, aged about thir-
t%y-five, who has lone work in a brick
yard, guarded convicts and of late has run
a whiskey still, Lawrence Morgan, aged
about forty five at one time owner of a
bar, whose hair is touched with gray,
though he is a vigorous and strong bodied
man. He has been charged with conduct
ing a gambling room but has never been
convicted
WHAT CAUSED THE CRIME.
1t is a question that confronts people
when they discuss the cause of the muir
der of the Insurance Agent Jones. The
reason on the surface, industriOusly circu-
lated, is that this was because Jones had
negro women in his rooms at many times.
But there are people here who shake
their heads at this. Gambling rooms, they
say, flourish in Wilson and debauch the
youth and manhood of the town, aided
by the many bar-rooms that are to be
found. 1t is said by these that the men
who worked up the assault on Jones wait
ed to be rid Of him because he knew too
much and they We're afraid he would
peach" Men have been indicted here
for running gambling rooms. but the IN
dictments have failed, and it is thought
that Jones supposed knowledge of these
rooms led to the battering down of his
door and to the shot which ended his life
when be endeavored to protect himself.
Then here is another theory that has
is supporters. 1t Is that Jones has been
gambling with certain parties here, and
that he has won their money, by ways
which they can't understand. Feeling
that he had been "doing them" they used
the negro women affairs as a basis and
on this proceeded to set in motion the
machinery to rush Jones out of town
using Whitley as the advance agent with
the threats to get out or take a licking
| and be killed.
Many they are here who say that no
matter what was the cause of the at
tack on Jones it did not rave murder in
1t, but that the crowd after elaboration.
and with Jones determination to stav IN
Wilson confronting them, thought that
a visit to him, with a beating as part of
the programme, would cause him to move
on. Doing this they went to Jones room
his refusal to open up irritated them, they
broke INTO the dark room from a dark
hall and his gun shot unbalanced some
one who pulled his pistol and fired at the
struggling form on the bed, making muir
der where none was intended.
WHO FIRED THE FATAL SHOT.
But who fired the nurderous shot no
one knows. Gil Ward is supposed tn
have been in the room for he went home
bare headed and a hat was found in the
room. Rich is supposed to have hem
there for the cartridges used match tbosr