The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-12-26
POLICE INVESTIGATING
LOUISVILLE WOMAN'S
ACCOUNT OF MURDER
CBy United Press)

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. pa wo-|
mans 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 in
vestigators here today.
Il killed my friend" Mrs. Olive l..
Jones, 32 years old, pretty divorcee.
announced when She entred police
headquarters just after daylight Mon
day. She was disheyeled, hysterical.
The men on duty discounted her state
ment.
"Oh, he's dead. l shot him; you'll
find him out there on the floor 1 left
him covered up with his own overcoat
] know he's dead. He has not moved
for hours" she declared.
This was the first intimation Off
cials had that o. L. Black, sales man
ager for Louisville auto company
had been shot to death late Sunday
afternoon in Mrs. Jones apartment.
Claims Self Defense.
Mrs. Jones said she fired in self 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, c. H. Jones, of Cincinnati, a
Louisville and Nashville baggagemas-
ter. was TO visit his daughter. Black
feared, Mrs. Jones declared, that a re-
Cancellation between the divorced cou-
pie would be effected through the Wis
its of the father with Clara
When Black, who she declared,
broke up my home and caused me TO
get a divorce" reached for a pistol on
a near table, she seized the weapon
first and fired Black fell. How long
he lived she did not know. She COW
cred him with his coat and quilt
Later she placed a screen of chairs be-
fore 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
away.
Returns From Show
Clara returned from 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 sleep
with her. When morning came the
presence of the body in the room, the
mother said
And then 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 murder.
| Jones, it was said, here filed suit
! for divorce four years ago, naming
Black correspondent. Later the petit
/ tion was withdrawn. Mrs. Jones then
1 filed suit, charging cruelty and non
support. By consent it was said, this
suit was not contested. Jones said
yesterday he would do anything pos
sible to help his former wife.
Discount Woman's Story
Already, police investigators declare,
! flaws have been found in the account
of the tragedy as given by Mrs. Jones
Black was shot in the back, e. A.
Larkin, captain of detectives. said
| This fact, he claimed indicated the vic
time was not taking the aggressive
when YAunded Also his clothes were
/ powder burned, showing the weapon
was firel at close range.
Two other facts also are unexplain
ed Clara has declared. police say
that she did not sleep with her mother
1 anv part of the night. investigators
disclosed, it was claimed that the bel
in the girls room had not been occu
pied. The investigators also are a
a loss TO account for the fact that ne
/ occuuant of the three story ana rtment
house, heard pistol shot near the
time Mrs. Jones claims the shootins
occurred.