Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-10
SHEPARD SLAYER
GIVES HIS STORY.
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Tells OF Shooting Actuated by
0verpoWering Desire
To Kill.
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COUPLE MEET IN COURT
Jones ana Wife Fail 10 Give slightest
Sign OF hecosni-
ton.

The testimony in The Jones murder
case is all IN and some time this
afternoon, the fate of the railway mail
clerk, who shot and killed arthur b.
Shepard because of alleged Intimacy
With his wife, Will rest III the hands OF
the jury At noon today, Asst dist.
Atty. T.. o. Leathcrwpod had concluded
the opening argument Tor The state and
at O'Clock COUNSEL for tie defense
NIL make the plea Tor Jones's HE, m
voking the 'un%ritten law.
That fhe cstranSonlent between Jones
ana his wife is nov complete is appar=
cnt from Il little incident that occurred
At me conclusion Of this iorehoon'4
session. Though they passct! within =
rev feet OF one another In gcinS out o!
the court room, neither gave any sign
of recognition. Mrs. Jones plainly
tried 10 AVOID her husband.
John 4. Jones, the defendant, at 10
o'clock this morning, resumed his story
OF the shooting at the point where he
left OF "Wednesday AFTERNOON. lie said
that whiin he was walking down tho
south side Of South Temple street, lie
saw two people enter the Wellington
hotel, corner South Temple and Third
West streets one Of Whom looked Ike
his wife. Thereuyon. he crossed the
street and walked into the hotel. stand
ing in the hotel entrance. t!e witness
said he heard II man. who WAS standing
by a woman near the clerks counter
say II want Il room !or myself ana
wife" Jones said that he had almost
turned to 20 out of the hJtel, when
the man turned from the counter ana
walked toward the stairway, as far
rs the first step.
Then the woman turned and rec.
ognized my wife" said Jones. "lmine-
uintely realized that the worst was
true The Incidents OF other days, that
at that time appeared to De innocent
enough flooded my brain with starting
conviction that Shepard and my wife
had been intimate. ] lost all power
to control myself | pulled my reNo'Fef
and connie need to shoot.
II had lost all hope and didht
want to live any more. l knew that
Shepard had ruined my life ana an
overpowcring desire to Kill him TOOK
possession of me. ! shot Mt him IN
the hotel first. It seems us though
Shepard broke and ran through
room. dark. and full of chairs ana
tables. we both stumbled over the
furniture. Then we ran out into the
air After firing some more shots. !
found my gun was empty and started
TO go home to get some more ann
munition, when heard some one say:
stop. or I'll blow your head or and
then stopped. He had a gun pointed
ut me-
From the testimony previously given,
this was George Harris, former
lratrolman. who stopped Jones at the
point of a revolver.
On cross examination. Jones denied
that he was aware that his wife ana
Shepard had been on intimate terms
before the occurrence in the Yelling
ton hotel. He said that he had be-
leved his wife when she told him
that there was nothing wrong In her
relationship With Shepard
1t developed during the cross ex-
animation that the revolver used by
Jones was Colts automatic, holding
nine shots, and that 1t was lrirchas-
ed in January ut the Western Arms
& Sporting Goods company, Jones adj
mitted that this revolver was loaded
fully when he began shooting and that
IT was emptied at the time of his dead
Gly encountered with Shepard