The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-29
MYSTERY Staying. !
LOUISVILLE Man
Woman Confess d Deed and
Told Her Story
WATCH OVER BODY
Police Investigating Tragedy
Occurring Sunday; Not Re-
ported Until Yesterday.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]


Louisville. KY, December 26.--
A woman's story of quarrel, shot
and her vigil IRON, dusk 20 dawn
over the body of the man she killed
was being checked up by police de-
partment investigators here today
81 killed my friend" Mrs. Olive
l.. Jones. thirty two years Old
pretty Divorce announced when
she entered police headquarters
Just after daylight Monday. She
was diSieTeled. hystesicai. The
men on duty discounted her state
ment-
"oh hes dead, Shot hin; yo11i
find Tim Cut there on The floor. I
left him covered up 1ith his own
hasn't moved for hours she de-
clared. Ii
This was the first int.,nation Of
ficials had that o. l.. Black. sales
manager for a Louisville automo.
bile company. had been shot to
death late Sunday afternoon III
Mrs. Jones apartment.
Claims Self Defense.
Mrs, Jones said she had fred in
self defense. Black, according to
her account of the tragedy, became
angry when he learned her daugh
ter. Clara, seventeen, was with her
and that her divorced husband, C.
H. Jones of Cincinnati, q Louisville
and Nashville baggage master, was
to visit his daughter. Black feared
Mrs Jones declared, that a recon
Citation between the divorced
couple would be effected through.
the visits or the father with Clara.
When Black, who, she declared
broke up my home and caused me
to get divorce reached for pis-
tol on a, nearby 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 quilt. Later she placed
a screen of chairs before the body
Kept Death Watch All Night
All night long she kept the death
watch. Never was she able to sum
mon courage to call the police.
to the telephone, and three times
three. times, she declared she went
turned away.
Clara returned from a picture
show. With her companion the
daughter spent some time in the
hall. Later she went TO her bed
room on the second floor. Mrs.
Jones finally called the girl to
come down stairs and sleep with
her. When morning came. the daugh-
ter still was unaware of the pres
ence. In the room the mother said.
And when Mrs. Jones telephoned
for her former husband TO come to
her. He refused. 1t was then she
told Clara what had Happened and,
sent her for her father. In the
girls absence the woman went to
police headquarters and told her
story. She was charged with muir
der
Jones, it was said, here filed suit
for divorce four years ago, naming
Black correspondent Later the pc
tition was withdrawn. Mrs. Jones
then filed suit charging cruelty and
non support By consent, it was
said, fhis suit vas not contested
Jones said yesterday he would do
ANYTHING possible to help his former
wife
Already police investigators de-
clare, flaws have been found in The
account of the tragedy as given by
Mrs. Jones.
Black was shot in the back. E. A.
7 arkifl q captain of detectives said
This fact, he claimed, Indicated the
victim was not taking the aggres-
siye when wounded. Also his clothes
were powder burned, showing the
" Weapon was fired at close range.
Two other facts are UNEXPLAINED
Clara has declared, police say, that
she did not sleep with her-mother
any part of the night. Investiga-
tion disclosed, it was claimed. that
the bed in the fiirl's room had not,
been occupied The investigators
also are at loss to account for the
fact that no occupant of the three
story apartment house heard piss
toll shot near the time Mrs. Jones
claims the shooting occurred.