The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-05


OF clothes and a pair OF practically
new tan shoes. these, be declared
had not been seen since his death.
except the watch. His dissertation
of the murder showed pretty
lconclusively that Jack Jones was
aroused from sleep by some one en-
tering the garage and went out of
the sleeping room to make investiga-
tons. The blood-stained floor and
walls also indicate that a terrific
fight took place in the vicinity of the
stove just outside OF the sleeping
room. Blood spots were in evidence
for distance of probably forty feet
from the sleeping room. He said
there was evidence of some one hav-
ling climbed over the office railing
to get to the cash register and that
a plugged quarter, always left in
the cash register, was missing. He
said he believed this quarter had
been shown to him during the trial
OF Joe Larkins. The witness told Of
buggy tracks on the south side Of
the building. which had undoubtedly
been backed up to the window by
hand. The witness admitted that he
did not know Johnson. He had paid
Joe Larkins for helping the boys
about the garage.
Defendant at Kaufman.
For the accommodation of a wit
ness whose wife was sick at his home
in Kaufman the states attorneys in
troduced Bert Nash, colored, who
gave an account of Johnny John
sons arrival in Kaufman some weeks
after the killing. He told about
Johnson coming to his home about
1880 O'Clock one Sunday night and
asking for drink of water. then in
curing for the home of Lillian jack
son. The witness declared he walk
ed with Johnson down to the Jackson
woman's house and when she was not
home they went part of the way 10
town and met her. Johnny had
bundle according to the witness when
he came to his house.
Foot Prints Were Small.
Weaver Hickman of Ennis who.
with Red Watson, arrested Joe Lar
kins, gave testimony as to the size
of the foot prints on the counter
inside the office. saying the tracks
were made by about a No. shoe.
He said he took notice Of Joe Lar
kins' shoes and they were too large
for the tracks found inside the Of
flee. He was corroborated in this
statement by Armon Yates, who stat
ed that on the morning Larkins was
hung he bought a pair of No. IL
shoes, which were too small for Lar
kins to wear.
Officer Harry Rogers also saw the
foot prints but did not make meas
urements of them. He told of recov-
erlng $2.32 in money, which included
IA plugged and bloody quarter, from
under the edge of Mollie Tolbert's
house on East jefferson street on
information obtained from Joe Lar
kins. then confined in the county
Jail. He said he also had information
where Jack Jones shoes and watch
were.
Jones Is Questioned.
Another departure from the regu-
lar procedure was the introduction
of ex-City Marshal Jim Jones,
witness for the defense. who had TO
return to his home in Hunt county.
Jones told of seeing Johnny john
son on the Sunday morning of the
killing of. Jack Jones at his home
He said Johnny was in his back yard
when he got up and that the de-
PENDANT told him about having had
trouble with Stella, his wife. he
told the city marshal that Stella
Jumped on him and whipped him and
was advised to go on out to the Nc
Cartney farm and go to work ana
leave that woman alone or she would
keep him in jail ell the time. The
witness declared that he did not say
ANYTHING or do anything to lead