The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-19

Proceedm.s in the murder case wherein Helen Jonos is to answer to
 the law for the killing of her hus- band in this city on November 9th were delayed materially yesterday when the matter of settlement of the
 courts instructions came up for ans wer
 The evidence had been finished at | the morning session, and it became apparent that the arguments of coun- sel would be made in the afternoon. By two o'clock the court room was
 we'll filled, and half an hour later it's capacity was tested A little later the
 galleries besau to be called into play i and perhaps would have been crowded but for the delay encountered
 Presiding Judge Hosue, accom- panied by Prosecuting Attorney Ran
 dolph, and Col Mudpby Wilmington and Ryan for the defense, went to
 an ante room to settle the instruc-
 lions They labored for a long time, and finally an hour was spent, and then another, and another, and the crowd had thinned out ill it's waiting
 to some extent.
 Then Judge Flague went to the bench. sent the sheriff to summon the
 jury back to their place in the court room.-and there was cyaning of ] necks ana adjusting of positions for it was guessed that the ahsuments would soon be opened
 q regret to announce there has been delay in this case" said the court and the arguments will not be-
 gin until s o'clock tomorrow morn inIs
 The defendant evidenced much less
 interest in the disappointment than the jurors or the audience. Sented between her mother and sster, she quietly awaited the time when the
 crowd would move out and she would be returned 10 her cell in the county
 jail.
 Today will bring a result of the
 trial-unlese perchance the jury
 should not agree The court will be
 called to order at o'clock, and the instructions will be read to the jury by the court Then the cause will
 first be presented to the jury through
 the vision of the prosecuting attorney and it i5 anticipated that the open ing speech will consume an hour The l defense attorneys will then talk, prcbaly in the order of Ryan for the opening. then Wilmington and the closing made by Colonel George W. Murphy. and that will probably take until the noon hour, eigqg an hour each for the addresses The closing will be made by Prosecuting Attorney Randolph, and will perhaps take an- other hour, or less, and the jury will probably have the case for its decls- ion very early in the afternoon, which
 indicates that a verdict will be oD-
 tainable during the afternoon period some time.
 The stiff controversy over the ln- structions deals almost wholly with what the court shall tell the jury re-
 gardins what took place in the room 1 IllEL ELS tIlt LIdEtug hho NN1hi AH 'f- enacted. Of course th6 instructions l are to be measured by tine facts and the state insists that Mrs Jonos
 was the aggressCr in so far as the use
 of weapons was concerned, that even 1 if Jonos made threat as ne came
 throuch the window, he had no chance
 Co be carrying that threat into exc cutlon when he picked up deck tele- phone and holding it, Was talking
 through it at the time the first shot was fired. and when another follow
 ed. and when tbe person at the other
 end of the line heard the cry of "Oh
 and heard the noise of things as drop [ ping heavily
 The defense insists that there was but one aggressor in the room and that Mrs. Jonos was on the defensive
 from the moment that Jonos came at
 the door. and then hter through Che window threatening to kill, and her. according to her own evidence, bes- eing him not to Kill her The refense 1 claims that her securing the pistol
 was the result of a race between her
 self and Ionos for the weapon, and
 that once she secured the pistol lonos
 came upon her in such attitude that
 che WIS forced In defense to shoa'