The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-18

the telephone stand
 George Brenner, undertaken. con .lrmed the report about the location of the bullet wound. and had probed iL and 1t extended in ana downward There were no powder Lurns on tho face or head
 Jimmy Mikes the states witness who was at the other end of the tele. phone, was called He testified that Mrs. Jonoa rang him up and asked him if Gus was there. and he told him that he was not, and that she then asked him to call up Joros' place and see if he had closed up and that he did so, and also looked ap the street and did not see lishts, and that according to her request. he went back to the phone to ring her up and tell her. 'Joros answered the phone. !" said the witness "I heard the first and second shots and then heard Jonos cry "Oh" and then heard a noise like things falling about the room, said 10 Jonos before the shot, Hello, is that you Gus?' and he said Yes, and l said Are you at homa?' and he said yes, and about that time the pistol fired.
 T said, Hello Gus, hello Gus when heard the shots" said the witness and nobody answered, and I kept oI calling to hm to tell me a5out what was the matter
 Then little later Mrs. Jonos an swered me on the phone and said, Come mp to the house. Jimmy | have killed Gus
 The witness stated that he told her certainly she had not, and she reiter. ated she had, and that then he cahed the police and went to the house. He said that he got Bert Hall and they went together and that Mrs. Jones was standing across the street about opposite the intrmary and Jimmy Mikes said 10 her tO come on up tO :he house to be certain about what had happened. and that she said, No, l am not going back to the house. ain't going back. Take me down t0 the iail and put me in jail or kill me hang ne; l don't care what they do with me"
 John c. Higgins. of The Sentinel Record, testified that after the shoot in he went. to tie city jail and talked to Mrs. IonCs about the affair. She said she had to kill Jonos to protect herself, and whe1, Mir Higgins in quired about the trouble she would begin to tell about trouble between them of some time long back, and that when he get mp 70 the scene i'm mediately 0efOre the killing she gave no statement of him attacking her at that time The woman told a discon. nected story, and was apparently very nervous She related several cir cumstances of Jonos attacking ner but they none of them were just pre- vious 70 this shooting. She told of one time having to go out of the house in her night clothing, and of another time having to call Captain Wheeler of the police department to protect her, but these also were old circumstances.
 Jailor Tucker told of being present when Mir Higgins talked to the wom- an. and of her making statements that s1e had to protect herself, but that she did not give any reason for having to protoc; herself at the time. always reverting back when pressed to things that happened some time before The officer said there were two Greeks about there at the time and she said she would not talk much before them as they were against her
 Officer Tom Ellison was present also al shat time and heard the con versltion between Mr. Higgins and the woman and remembered among other things that the woman said she was talking 10 Jimmy Mikes over the telephone when the trouble started
 Mrs Hutton. who occupies an apart ment over the Jon0s store, said taat abou. q year ago there was q Greek boy named George working for Jonos, and that Jonos had discharged him, and the witness evidently knew the reason wes that Mrs. Jono3 had de man led his discharge because the coy mad wrung a pistol from her hand when she was trying to kill Jonos. The witness was not permitted to go into this further than to say she went to Mrs. Jonos and told her the boz was taking baths, and asked that Jonos take him back, and Mrs. Jonos said that she would not let him go pack to work, that he had taken a pistol away from her and was med ding in their family affairs, and also that Mrs JcnOs said her wrists were black yet from the handling she got from George when ae wrest9d the Dis tol from her.
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