Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-24
WOMAN SLAYER OF HUSBAND JUMPS
 BOND OF s5,O0Q
Texas Woman, Awaiting Her Trial, Declines to Wait
 Longer

Dallas, Texas July 23.-Mrs. Ida Valeria Ott, pretty young slayer of her husband, has jumped her bond oi S5,000 and departed for parts un- known. The first intimation the court. the bondsmen and the Prose cutting Attorney had of the fact that Mrs. Ott had fled was when her case was called for trial this week. The defendant was missing and her at- torneys knew nothing of her where abouts. The bond was forfeited by the court and two prominent Dallas business men are out s25O0 each.
 Mrs. Ott shot her husband to death as he stood in crowd of Christmas shoppers on Dec. 23 last She got out of her automobile and walked to where he was standing. witnesses declared. She asked him where is the other woman? ?'' and then opened fire. With the first shot Ott fell to the pavement. Four bullets were fired into his body as he lay in the street. Then Mrs. Ott threw her arms about the dead form and begged for someone to get doctor and asked Ott to live for her sake
 At the first trial Mrs. Ott was given two years in the penitentiary. The case was appealed and the high CT court reversed the decision and sent the case back for trial Mrs. Ott was released of bonds to await the new trial. When she left the city and where she went no one seems to know. Her attorneys de- clare they believe she will return to Dallas and stand trial. The court thought otherwise and forfeited the bond.
 Women Attracted by Trial.
 The Ott case was one of the most sensational here in years. The court room was literally packed with wom- en during the first trial A great part of the evidence was of sor- did nature. Chief among the fea- lures of the testimony was that re- lating to a divorce petition the dead husband had filed short time be- fore the killing. This petition de- clared the deceased had paid more than $10,000 in fines for the defend ant and that in most instances these fines were on vagrancy charges in three states. The petition further recited that Ott, having been in the army and seen overseas duties, had learned to want to live differently. It alleged that Mrs. Ott would not consent to do so.
 The petition also alleged that Mrs. Ott had attempted to kill her hus- band.
 Mrs. Ott denied all the allegations in the petition. She claimed Ott had She alleged that he tried to get her to receive attentions of other men and that he once tried to kill her. She declared she lay in hospital in San Antonio for weeks as re- suit of bullet wound inflicted by Ott with revolver.
 Not Seen for Two Months
 From the best of information Mrs. Ott was seen in Dallas the last time about two months ago. That was about the time the court reversed her case. Two young attorneys have said they saw her one night about midnight peeping in the window of the automobile house where Ott worked at the time she killed him. These attorneys declare Mrs Ott after gazing into the window for some moments, walked over to the place where Ott stood when she fired the first shot. Then she walked to the place where he was picked up and placed in the ambulance. After standing about these places for few moments Mrs. Ott returned to the hotel where she made her home, the attorneys declare. The hotel clerk remembers having seen Mrs. Ott late that night She has not been seen in Dallas since, so far as could be learned.
 Mrs. Ott is known to have had considera ble money.