Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-11

in the building was set apart for
him, and he carried the key to it.
The premises v ere his home, to all
intents and purposes, as fully as
though he were it's owner. 1t
seemed as though brothers in blood
could not have been knit more
closely in congeniality and affec-
ton than we're these two men.
And this the horrible, the unim-
aginable, the incomprehensible
end of it, save the CHASTITY court
procedure, with the shadow of
the gallows over all! pen these
lines in sorrow sincere and full
over the untimely death of a friend,
and grieved because of the bitter
ness of fate toward those bound to
him In ties of blood and affection.
For his slayer, whose life is per-
force henceforth q lingering death,
my kindliest prayer would be,
"Peacel The peace that knows no
wakingl" IT'S the only peace the
universe holds for him.
"'Tis true. it's pity; and pity it's. it's truel"
The following account of the
tragedy is taken from the Republic
of the 4th inst. Nothing later has
developed in connection with it,
excepting that the coroner's in
quest on Friday found q verdict of
"ielonious homicide" The funeral
of the victim was held that day,
and thus the earthly account of
ill tated Clarence N. Jones was
closed forever:
"Clarence N. Jones, brother Of
Police Commissioner George P.
Jones, was shot and killed by his
recent business partner, Herman
Kretschmar, in the Office of the
Commonwealth Milling Co., at
1:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Jones, who was president of the
company, died before William
Pascal, a miller, reached his side,
three minutes after the shooting.
There we're no witnesses to the
tragedy.
Still clutching the revolver in
his hand, Kretschmar, until re-
Gently secretary of the milling
company, left the Office, and told
Pascal, who was at work outside,
what he had done, and started for
| the Angelica street police station.
Leaving the mill at Second street
and De Soto avenue, Kretschmar
walked west. In front of No.4910
North Broadway he asked Harry
F. Snyder and the latter's cousin,
L. S. Humes, the location of the
police station.
A few minutes after his arrest
Kretschmar made the following
statement to the Republic:
4 wish | were lying dead in Mr..
Jones' place. l was never so sorry
in my life. This is an entirely new
experience for me, because | never
harmed a soul before, and police
men never laid their hands on my
shoulders except in an act of kind
ness. It's awful to be locked up
here; and reflection over what /
have done makes me wish |, too,
we're dead. But it was a case of
one or the other of us going. I've
read in novels of the look that
comes over the faces of persons
| about to commit murder. l sa W
such a horrible distortion of the
countenance for the first time this
afternoon when Mr.. Jones started
towards me with an appraised arm.
Jones, Kretschmar and Edwin
Gloor were partners in the BUSH
ness until Jan. IL. Kretschmal
told Snider, just after the killing,
that business troubles we're the
cause of the shooting, and said
that he had not been treated just
right. This is scoffed at by Gloor,
1t was on Kretschmar's second
visit to the mill in thirty minutes
that the killing occurred, accord
ing to Gloor, who was accompa-
MED to the Broadway car barns by
Kretschmar after the latter's first
visit.
Gloor denies that there was any
thing irregular in Kretschmar's
withdrawal from the company las
month, and positively asserts tina
Kretschmar never asked for rein
statement to his former position
as secretary. The prisoner re-
fuses to discuss this phase of the
case"