Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-25
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

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Capt. f. w. Jones, of Company f,
Seventy-irst Virginia Regiment, Vir-
gnia Volunteers, yesterday afternoon
murdered Maud Robinson, better known
as Maud Cameron, and then attempted
to commit suicide by cutting his throat
from ear to ear with razor he had used
in almost severing the head of the Cam
eron woman from her shoulders.
The tragedy occurred in the house,
l57 Cove street, Norfolk, about 1870
O'Clock. There was no one in the Cove
street house at the time of the tragedy
but Captain Jones, the Cameron woman
and another young woman, who gave
her name as Mrs. L. w. Thompson.
The Thompson woman's statement is
that Captain Jones came into the house
under the influence of liquor and acted
as an insane man. The Cameron woman
refused to receive him and tried to reach
the telephone to call for assistance, but
he cut the phone off and when the wom-
an attempted to free herself from him
there was a desperate scuffie. The
Thompson woman rushed to her assist
auce, but Captain Jones drew razor
and threatened 10 cut her throat if she
did not return up stairs. She rushed
from the house, screaming for help, and
while in the street she heard the
Cameron woman cry for assistance.
Rushing into the house the Thompson
woman fonnd the Cameron woman where
she had fallen out of the back door, lying
with her partially severed head on the
pavement outside, with her feet resting
on the floor Just inside of the door.
After cutting the Cameron woman's
throat, Captain Jones rushed through
the front lower hallway of the house
and, standing in front of the door lead
ing to the Cameron woman's room, cut
his own throat with the razor which he
had broken. He then threw himself
across the magnifcently covered bed.
Living there only a minute, Captain
Jones jumped up and, rushing to the
back of the house, threw himself down
by the side Of the dead woman. 1t was
there he was found. Captain Jones,
semiconscious from the loss OF blood,
made no statement
The cause of the tragedy is unknown
at this time. The Thompson woman
says that Captain Jones came to the
Cove street house last week, but that be
had not been in the habit of visiting
there.
The dead woman was % years old.
She went to Norfolk from North Car
olina several years ago after graduating
from a convent and bad been living
in handsomely furnished apartments for
sometime.
She met Jones, who became infatuated
with her, and she returned his affection.
Each, it is said, was intensely jealous
of the other, and this jealousy caused
yesterdays tragedy.
Capt. Jones's infatuation for the wom-
an became known to his brother officers
of the Seventy-frst regiment during the
funeral exercises over the remains of
Gen. Filzhugh Lee, in Richmond, when
the woman created scene, which re-
suited in Capt. Jones being arraigned be-
fore a court-martial on the return of the
regiment. A similar scene occurred
during the Memorial Day exercises in
Norfolk when Capt Jones left his COM
mand in the cemetery when ordered to
do do by Maude Cameron, and he again
had to explain his conduct to a court
martial.
Though advised to do so by his
brother officers, Jones refused to give up
the girl. A short time ago she Tilted
him, driving him into mental cOndi-
ton closely bordering on insanity. When
he left his home yesterday morning Jones
seemed perturbed. He went to bis
office, where he announced that he was
not feeling well and would not return
during the day. Going to his apart
ments he secured a razor, and two hours
later appeared at the home Of the Came
ron woman, where he was refused adj
mittance Witnesses of the tragic events
that followed say Jones, who was usually
of a quiet and retiring disposition, seemed
like a maniac. After the tragedy Jones
was removed to the Hospital st. Vincent
de Paul, where every effort is being made
to save his life. The attending surgeons
do not believe he will survive. During
the recent factional fight between dual
police boards Capt. Jones was elected
chief of police and was elected from Of
fee by the Virginia Supreme Courts de-
cision Jones is about 80 years odl and I'M
married. He is lumber inspector, and
popular among a large circle of friends.
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