Evening star., 1922-12-26
DEATH VIGIL KEPT
BY WOMAN SLAYER
She Tells Police of Shoot
ing After Sitting All Night
With Body.
CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
Declares Dead Man Had Broken Up
Her Home-Charged With
Murder.
SELF-DEFENSE
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. December 26.-
A woman's story Of q quarrel. a shot
and her vigil from dusk to dawn over
the body Of the man she killed was
being checked up by police depart
ment investigators here today.
IT killed my friend" Mrs. Olive L.
Jones. thirty-two years old. pretty
divorcee. announced when she enter
ed police headquarters just after day
light Monday. She was Odisheveled
counted her statement
'Oh. he's dead I shot him: you'll
find him out there on the floor. I left
him covered up with his own over
coat. 1 know he's dead. He hasn't
moved for hours" she declared.
self-Defense Claimed.
This was the first intimation off,
cials had that o. L. Black. sales man
ager for Louisville automobile CON-
pany. had been shot Sunday afternoon
in Mrs. Jones' apartment.
Mrs. Jones said she fired in self
defense. Black. according to her ac-
count of the tragedy, became angry
when he learned her daughter Clara
seventeen, was with her, and that her
divorced husband. c. H. Jones, of Gin
cinnati, now a Louisville and Nash
daughter. Black feared, Mrs. Jones
declared. that a reconciliation be-
tween the divorced couple would be
affected through the visits of the
father with Clara
says He Broke Up Home.
When Black. who. she declared.
''broke up my homo and caused me to
get q divorce" reached for a pistol on
a nearby table. she seized the weapon
first and fred. Black fell. How long
he lived she did not know. She COW
cred him with his coat and a quilt
Later she placed a screen Of chairs
before the body.
All night long she kept the death
watch. Never was she able to sum
mon courage to call the police. Three
times. she declared, she went to the
telephone, and three times turned
Clara returned from a picture show
with her companion. the daughter
spent some time in the hall. Later
she went to her bedroom on the sec:
ond floor. Mrs. Jones finally called
the girl to come downstairs and sleeI
with her. When morning came the
daughter still was unaware OF tht
nresence Of the body in the room, the
mother said.
Phones Former Husband.
And then Mrs. Jones telephoned fol
her former husband to come to her
He refused. 1t was then she tole
clara what had happened and sent
her for her father. In the girls ao'
sence the woman went to police head
quarters and told her story.
She was charged with murder.
Jones. it was said here, filed suit fol
divorce four years ago, naming Biaca
withdrawn. Mrs. Jones then hleo
suit. charging cruelty and non-s4p.
norf BY consent, it was SAID. thi!
suit was not contested. Jones sale
vesterday he would do anything pos
sible to help his former wife.
r,.vs In woman's story,
Already, police Investigators de-
c,are. flaws have been found IN the
account Of the tragedy as given by
Riack was shot in the back, E. A
1arlsin- captain of detectives. said
This fact, he claimed. indicated the
victim was not taking the aggressive
when wounded. Also. his clothes were
powder burned. showing tina weapon
was fired at close range.
Two other facts also are unexpialn'
ed. clara has declared. police say
that she did not sleep with her moth
er any part of the night: Ipvestiga,
tion disclosed, 1t was claimed, thai
the bed in the girls room had moi
been occupied. Tho investigators also
are at q loss to account for the fae,
that no occupant OF tho three.stor3
APARTMENT house heard . pistol sho,
near the time Mrs. Jones claims the
shooting occurred.