Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-26
JENKINS NO SLAYER
HIS MOTHER AYERS
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IN his life. and that was ii .32-caiibc,
revolver. lie was never cmbay-
raised in discussing the Hines cas-,
ana do not believe and never vii
believe that he was the murdrrc:.
Mrs Jenkins almost gave wa
when she told of her happiness while
living with Curtis in the last thir,
months of his life
While I sometimes felt like tai.
ing him to task for keeping La.
hours, was always so happy vile,
he came in that l could not say .
word in rcproof." She sobbcG.
Those last years were among til
brightest of my life" the little IRA,
mother added.
AT this point Mrs. jenkins sal,
ihat an apparent effort was hciu.
made by Mrs. Bessie Jenkins to shov
NAT curtis had taken L. drink i'm tn.
'@mmcr. the Inference being that a.,
was doing this TO drown his memoir.
IF the murder on the Angus, uirlt
She stated that Curtis had usc.
liquor before entering the army. bat
never drank To the point OF utoS.
'all"n then or after the murder f..
which Hines was convicted.
1nomas w. and Harold s. Jcukin,
Yesterday came forward in Gefrns,
"l thcir brother. Roth had been with
MN night after night in his last
hEoni"!nS hours ana his rawlings they
described as terrible. Neither heard
him mention the Hines ease duriur
ms last sickness, but stated that il
Is possible that he would have suit
something. They both emphasized.
however. that neither Mrs. Bessie
Jenkins nor Fred Jenkins have said
That Curtis actually confessed tina;
he had killed ratrolmau curtis or
that he had killed a policeman. hi.
quoted words being. Il Killed him.
Dung jenkins attended the Hines
t:laI every day, and II may have been
On his mind during his illness and
found expression in his dcl.rium
Thomas Jenkins stated. Iic added
that Curtis had had temperature
ranging from 1914 to io7 for more
man week before death, and could
not under those circumstances hav,
"c"n In Il normal state Of mind.
In addition To charging that Cur
It's jenkins had confessed the muir
der 10 him. Fred jenkins has de-
Cared that his brother was at his
home within a few hours after the
murder and appeared nervous and
'shnky." IN entirely different YER
sion is given by Harold who stated
yesterday that he himself read to
curtis the account OF the murder in
an afternoon newspaper. and that
he was not in the least shaky or ncr-
vous.
Wns Too Driiri"uS, He Sny-.
Harold also declared that his
brother was too dclirious for any
weight to he given To anything that
he said in his rawlings He told how
The i'll youth kept calling Cor him
but how. in the four days he was In
til" sick room. he was never re
cognized 10y his dying brother. II"
said that Curtis talked iurcsscn;Iy
and that for days his rauhliugs wer..
so disjointrd and Irresponsible tina,
absolutely no attention was paid To
his words either by relatives or tho
nurses constantly at his sid"
cit would have been impossible
for n person sitting N his bedside
10 have taken down half Curtis said
in his dclirium," was tho corruborat-
ing statement Of Thomas Jenkins
He said that he had spent every
night ut the side Of his brother aud
never heard him refer in any way
to any murder OF killing on To the
Hines case while he was III.
Those who would brand young
Jenkins a murderer have by infer
enc" left the impression tina; the
war veteran may have made II death
bed confession 10 Dr. Raymond C.