The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-06
SHE RESTED PISTOL ON
 WINDOW AND FIRED
Weapon Snapped Three Times Be- fore Firing.
pesa Negro Was rdeatiaed as Ike Tay- Tor, Lately a waiter--rragedy Occurred on Cleveland Ave- .ue Early Yesterday
 Morning.

a remdIkdDt6 and pluck Mrs. E. T. Jones, young widow, ieveled her revolver at a des- perats negro burglar struggling with her father and hred fatal shot into the head of her fathers assailant yes- terday morning about 2:so o'clock at her home, 24 Cleveland Avenue.
 Rara even In man is the courage or fhe dexree shown by Mrs. Jones as she rnshed yesterday morning to the res cue of her aged father in the grasp or the negro intruder. Keeling from tne pistol shot wound that was the prce Mrr. Jones. the negro fell to the ground rritbout an inteiligible utterance. He waa nicked up by the police fifteen minutes later and was taken to the hospital where yesterday morning he died at 10 o'clock. He was identined as Ike Taylor. negro waiter,
 Mrs. Jones, a widow. scarcely out of her twenties, and living with her fath- CT. Barney Rhody, on Cleveland Ave- ntie was sleeping yesterday morning soundiy in the room with three or her single sisters in a room adjoining that Of her fathers on the west side of the house Suddenly she was aroused by voicea seeming to come from the front of the residence. Mira. Jones was keen iy alert to the noise as time and again during past months there have been frespasses of the place by negroes.
 Determined to discover the source of the noises towards the front, Mrs. Jones turned on the electric light in her own room first. Meantime her sis ters, sleeping in her own room. were aroused. They were ordered to remain in the room while the elder stole to the front porch to make an investiga- ton. She called to whoever were talking in muiiied tones near the front porch where she was standing. There, was silence. She could not set an an- swer after repeated efforts.
 Remembering the frequent naolesta- tions of the home jn the past Mrs. Jones was determined to take no chances. She returned to the hallway, stepped into the unoccupied room df- rectly across the hall from the room In which her father was sleeping and quietly pulled from the shelf of linen closet an old revolver which she had repeatedly fired into the air on other nights when intruders seemed to threaten the home.
 There was but one other course open to the plucky woman now. She would have to do what she wished to avoid doing, arouse her father, a weak and pxcitabIe man, by entering his room and investigating the sounds of hu- man voices which appeared to have shifted from the front to the alley be- tween the window of her fathers room and the adjoining residence.
 When she stealthily turned on the electric light in this room her father awoke. He immediately arose from his bed and in a moment informing him. self of the occasion of his daughters visit overriding all protests of the lat ter. stepped to the window raised the shade and threw open the blinds. Then came the climax of the terrible sus< pense to the whole family which by now had assembled in the room of the aroused father. Then came the emer- Rency which demanded heroic action on the part of some one and that Mrs. Jones. the courageous elder daughter was equal to the emergency was proven by the sensational sequenceG
 So fully and quickly did Mrs Jones measure up to the eXigencies of the situation confronting her that the po- lice of Montgomery who hurried to the scene a few minutes after the en- counter with the negro intruder, con- gratulated the woman/warm1y for her heroic work and later when all the of- hcers were informed of the heroism of her deed. unanimously agreed that the police department would. as one se- lect one of the most elegant and ef- fective revolvers to be bought and present Mrs. Jones with the weanon as a token of her bravery
 When Mir. Rhody threw open the blinds of his room. surrounded by his daughters on the inside. his arms were grasped in hands of steel from just without the window. He was instant ly engaged in a fierce struggle with a negro who pulled violently to drag him from his room to the ground out side. Meantime. Maude Rhody. a younger daughter of fourteen years of age snatched an iron rod supporting the lace curtain of the window and be- gan pounding the negro for all she was worth. Seeing that her father would finally have to yield to the brute strength of his assailant, Mrs. Jones. pistol in hand. stepped quickly to the window and dropping to her knees raised the weapon to the am brasure of the window and with these words pulled the trigger on a deIib- crate aim: You negro. what are you doing"
 She did not finish her words for the very good reason that the rusty revol- Coolly readjusting her aim. the de- termined woman again pulled the trig- ger. and when there was no explosion of the weapon. she prayed in despair, but tried the trigger d third time. With the fourth pull of the trigger there was a resounding discharge or the revolver that drowned the crash of blows which rained on the negro,s head from the iron rod which was stiiI yielded by the younger daughter.
 "I just felt that I hit that negro in one of his eyes," said Mrs. Jones yes terday when seen after the shooting. T couldn't say that I saw the man shot in the eye but I had a presentt- ment that the shot had taken effect in one of his eyes I kept quiet about 1t in the presence of my father and sis- ters I knew had saved my father and family. I had accomplished my object in the use of the revolver and 1 dreaded to know the consequence to the negro.
 Tn about three minutes after fired the shot, though, I remarked to father that l believe the negro was struck. Al +N@t time I went to the telephone and