The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-26
WOMAN KILLS MAN.
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WATCHES HIS BODY
Mrs. Olive L. Jones, Di-
v0rcee, Reports Killing to
Louisville Police
CLAIMS SHE FIRED
IN SELF DEFENCE

SAYS o. L. Black, Salesman. Broke Up
Her Home and Caused Her to Get
Divorce-PoIice Find Her Victim
Was Shot in Back.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, Dec. pa
woman's story of a quarrel, a shot and
/ her vigil from dusk to dawn over the
body of the man she killed was being
/ checked up by police department. inyes-
tigators here today.
Il killed my friend" Mrs. Olive l.
Jones. pretty diyorcee. announced
when she entered police headquarters
just after daylight Monday. She was
disheyeled and historical The men on
duty discounted her statement.
''Oh, he's dead. | shot him; you'll
find him out there on the floor / left
him covered up with his own overcoat.
4 l know he's dead. lie hasn't moved for
hours" she declared
This was the first intimation officials
had that o. l.. Black. sales manager for
n Louisville automobile company had
been shot TO death late Sunday afternoon
III Mrs. Jones's apartment
Mrs. Jones said she fred in seIf-de-
Tense. Black. according to her account
of the tragedy. became angry when he
learned her daughter, Clara II, was
with her and that her divorced husband,
{. Ii. Jones. OF Cincinnati. Louisville
and Nashville baggage master. was to
visit his daughter Black feared Mrs
Jones declared, that a reconciliation be
tween the divorced couple would be eff
fected through the visits of the father
with Clara.
When Black, who. she declared. broke
up my home and caused me 10 ger a
divorce reached for pistol on near
by table she seized the weapon first and
/ fired. Black fell. How long he lived
she did not know. She covered him with
his coat and a quilt. Later she placed n
screen Of chairs before the body.
All night long she kept the death
watch. Never was she able TO summon
courage to call the police. Three times.
| she declared, she went TO the telephone,
and three times turned away.
Clara returned from a picture show.
With her companion, the daughter spent
some time in the hall. Later she went
/ - her bedroom on the second floor. Mrs
| Jones finally called the girl 10 come
downstairs and sleep with her. When
morning came the daughter still was un-
aware of the presence of the body in the
room. the mother said.
And then Mrs. Jones teIephoned for
her former husband to come 10 her. He
refused. IL was then she told Clara
WHAT utu tLScAletl anu St-aAL iItE itE ut't
| father. In the girls absence the woman
went TO police headquarters and told her
story She MAS enlarged with murder.
Police investigators declare flaws have
been found i'm the account Of the trag-
edy as given by Mrs. Homes.
Black was shot in the back, +. y. Lar
! kin, captain Of detectives. said. This
/ fact he claimed. Indicated the victim
was not taking the aggressive when
/ wounded, although his clothe. were
powder-burned. showing the weapon was
/ fred at close range.
Two other facts also are unexplained.
/ Clara has declared, police say, that she
! did not sleep with her mother any part
of the night. Investigation disclosed it
( was claimed, that the bed in the girls
room had not been occupied. The in
4 vestigators also are at a loss to account
/ for the fact that no occupant of the
| three-story apartment house heard Il PTS
/ tol shot near the time Mrs. Jones claims
/ the shooting occurred