The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-08
SAW DEADLY
SHOTS FIRED
The Younger Mrs.
Parnenter's
Evidence.
The Jones Murder Trial
Attracts a Great
Crowd.
Judge Robinson Makes q Clear
ance-Judge De Bolt Trying
an Old Controversy.

The actual trial of Edward Mitchell
Jones for murder was started before
Judge Gear yesterday 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 looded
murder Exception to this remark was
taken by j. j. Dunno, who appears
with A. G. M. 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 were 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 defendant
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-
ner's jury When cross-examined
from the transcript, he said in answer
to one question that if such thing
was there it was printed wrong. One
of his last answers, when asked if he
testified in certain way, was, Il must
have" He told about his running
away when he saw man coming over
a fence with 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 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 ! 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
a bullet struck her, and said she saw
her again the night she died, August
26. The witness heard Jones making
threats of killing about the time OF
the DIVORCED case or 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 defendan
shoot Mrs. Jones, and then one after
| she (witness) had set the lamp SHIT
| had been holding at the window upor
| the table.
| Mrs. Parmenter said she never spok'
| to anyone about her testimony before
| yesterday in court. She did testif!
| at the inquest, but had spoken to NJ
one outside about the evidence sh'
| would give at the trial. After thu
| shooting of Mrs. Jones she locked III
1 the two children in her own room
| She told the boy, who was asking
| questions about his grandmother, Il
keep still and if he heard footstep
coming or she called out to him h
| was to jump out of the window.
did you not tell the coroner's jur,
that you did not see Jones AND, tina
| you only heard his voice?''
"I 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 tn
coroner's jury that she saw Jones shoe
his wife He fired two shots at hi
wife. She heard him say:
Now 1 got you at last, I viii XII
, you
i AS soon as he finished speaking h
shot her.
i With reference to the shooting c
} Mrs Parmenter, the witness said tha
Mrs. Jones was at the time sitting /
Il the dining room by the window an
witness was standing beside her. Thi