The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-06-27
James Jones Shoots and Kills
John Gibson Last Night at
The Home of Jones' Sister
Gibson Was Drunk and Seek.
log His Vile From Whom
He Was Separated...Jone
Claims Self Defense.

IbbhA o'O~OAf ~ FNoio OAht a
man, was shot and almost instantly
killed by James Jones, alias Jim
Drake, 25 years old, at the home OF
Jennie Lynn, S32 Harris street
Jones claims self-defense and Is
backed up by weak story which
leads the police to believe that the
murder was committed in cold blood
Jones escaped from the police and
lone hour later he walked into police
headquarters at the city hall and SUI
rendered. Gibson, who received two
wounds, only one of which was fatal
staggered from the house and fell
dying in a narrow alleyway half 3
square away In the yard of San
Sneed, colored, at sos North Nintl
street. He lived about Is minutes.
Jennie Lynn. Florence Tomlinson
Emma Prentice, Gibson and Bell,
Drake. inmates of the house, were
placed under arrest and taken to po-
lice headquarters by Patrolman Pa
lilly Kirk. and locked up on a charge
of disorderly conduct at 10 o'clock
The corpse of Gibson was removed t.
the undertaking parlors of Mattil
Efnger & Roth where the Inquest
was held this afternoon.
| According to Emma Prentice, who
was married to Gibson June 16, Glib
son had been threatening her and
was in the act OF breaking down a
door at the Lynn house last night
when Jones interfered. Patrolmen
Kirk and Mitchell had warned Glib
son to stay away from his wife sew
eral nights ago. When married they
only lived together a short time
falling to live in peace.
At 9:25 o'clock last night Night
Captain John Dorian at police head
lquarteTs received a telephone call
from w. I. Wallace, night Waterman
at the Cohankus Manufacturing
plant. Ninth and Boyd streets. say
ng that man was dying at Ninth
md Harris street near the Garfield
colored school building. Patro
Driver Terrell was notified and with
Police Sergeant Ijge Cross and
newspaper reporters he raced to the
scene at breakneck speed Gibson
was lying dead in the passageway,
having expired just few minutes
before the patrol wagon halted at
the scene. When it was found that
Gibson was dead the patrol wagon
went after Acting Coroner Charles
W. Emery. who made an examination
of the wounds. The examination |
made by the light of an oil lamp re-
vealed that Gibson had been struck
twice One bullet had entered just
over the right hip. The other enter
ed the abdomen and is thought to
have struck a rib and ranged to the
spinal column. There were three |
bullet holes, showing that one of the
bullets had passed out. of his body.
One hole was just to the right aud |
above the nable and the second sew
eral inches to the right and frac-
ton lower. The third wound was
Just above the right hip at the back
After being shot Gibson had run |
from the house on Harris street and |
through the alley to the back yard OF |
Sam Sneed's home. lie fell in the |
alleyway and crawled to about ten
feet of the front of the house where |
he collapsed. and was leaning against
the wall Sneed, who was sitting on
his front porch, had heard the shoot |
ing and went to his front yard. A
few minutes later he was attracted |
to the side of his house by weak |
| groans. and going after his lamp he
saw Gibson dying. Gibson's right
leg was extended forward and his
left leg bent under him. His eyes
had a CLASSY appearance and Sneed
was unable to make him reply to
questions He was breathing heavily
when w. T. Wallace, the night watch |
man at the cordage factory arrived.
and upon his heels came Patrolman
1 Charles Mitchell Patrolmen Mitch
lell and Kirk were on North Twelfth
street when the shooting occurred.
and on learning of il rushed to the
scene. A few minutes after the ar
rival of Mitchell, Gibson breathed
This last.
BY this time the patrol wagon had
arrived and Gibson was placed on the
strctcher. Sergeant Cross received
a tip from negro boy that the shoot
ing occurred at the house of Jennie
Lynn. and Patrolmen Kirk and Mitch
ell went with Sergeant Cross to the
house, which is one of III repute. II
was searched and the police, gaining
no satisfaction, placed all four wom-
en- under arrest and they were taken
to the city hall aud locked up They
denied knowing anything of the muir
der.