San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-05
Rooming House Owner
Charged With Shoot
ing Woman.
SELF DEFENSE PLEA
State Will Seek to Have
Jury Return Death
Verdict.
a. &. TAYLOR, proprietor OF a


apartment house on Carson street,
who is charged by indictment with
1the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Jack
son, is scheduled to go to trial in the
oath District Court Monday morning.
A special yenire of 200 men has been
summoned for the trial, which is ex-
pected to consume at least q week.
The state will be represented by AS
sistant District Attorneys w. T.. Ma
haffey and John James, while the de-
tense attorneys are Chambers, Wat
son and johnson. A bitter legal fight
is expected.
The assistant district attorney, who
has had charge of Investigations for
the state, is claimed to have worked
up a thorough case and it is known
that the state will seek to have the
death penalty imposed upon Taylor.
A small caliber automatic pistol which
was found at the side of Mrs. jack
son after she was killed is expected
to play an important part in the trial.
1t is known that the state has been
making efforts to trace the ownership
of this weapon.
Will Claim Self-defense.
The defense, it is understood, will
base its fight for Taylor's freedom
on the issue of self-defense. Taylor
told officers when they came TO his
apartment house on the morning of
the tragedy, in response to tele-
phone call sent in by him that he had
shot the woman in self-defense. The
killing followed an alleged dispute be-
tween Taylor and Mrs. Jackson the
night previous.
According to the story told Off
GERS, Mrs. Jackson had come to San
Antonio from Dallas to visit a son
stationed at a local army post. Some
trouble had arisen between her and
Taylor and the latter had requested
her to leave the place. During an
argument on the night of June %,
detectives were called to the place,
but declined TO eject Mrs. Jackson, in
forming Taylor that he could file COM
rlaint against the wat6san if he de-
sired to have WEed Bullet Ill,
> That night, ache mn I'M. II astimony
brought out AZ "A haslrn Capus hear
in, Mrs. Jackson sns hoThe night IN
the apartment of NJ d. York in the
Taylor house. Next morning, it was
brought out in the testimony, she went
downstairs to bring up her belongings.
She had made two trips. according to
Mrs. York's testimony, during neither
of which did she have : pistol. 1t was
during the third trip that the shoot
ing occurred.
Other testimony brought out the
fact that there was blood on the stair
way from the. second landing to the
floor and a pile of bloody magazines,
bearing holes said to have been in
flicted b. a large caliber bullet were
found on the stairway. Bullet holes
were found in the vail between the
floor and the second landing of the
stairway, officers testified. Officers
also testified to having examined q
small hole in Taylor's room on the
ground floor to ascertain if it were
a bullet hole.
The trial of TAYLOR is expected to
attract large crowds i'll the 9th Dis
trict Court room as it is the first i'm
portant capital case TO be taken up
by Judge W. W. McCrory during The
special summer term of court. Owing
TO the Importance of the case the Sc
lection of a jury IS expected TO be a
tedious proceeding anu it is highly
probable that the special venire will
be exhausted before jury is secured,
owing to the publicity siven the trag-
edy at the time Of its occurrence.