San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-09
WIFE TEST|F|ES
FOR TAYLOR IN
MURDER TRIAL
Witnesses Also Testify
Mrs. Jackson Had
Small Pistol.
SMALL BULLET SHOWN
Defense in Taylor Trial
Seeks to Show Woman
Fired First.

Taking the stand in behalf Of hor
husband. q. G. Taylor, charged with
the murder Of Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson,
Mrs. Taylor Thursday morning testi-
fled that she saw n gun III Mrs.
Jackson's hand just before she was
killed. and that Mrs. Jackson had
run at her with the gun.
Taylor's case is on trial in the 91.h
district court. The woman was killed
at his apartment house on Carson
street in June.
Mrs. Faylor said that she was in
the Kitchen and looked out when she
heard someone on the steps. She said
it was Mrs. jackson and that Mrs.
Jackson had some magazines in her
left hand and a gun in her right. She
said Mrs. Jackson entered the front
room where Taylor was. then she
heard shot. She said Mrs jackson
ran out. and ran toward her with the
gun. She pluded her. she said. Then
she heard three shots and saw he
woman's body on the steps.
Testimony of two witnesses that
Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson. on the night
before she was killed. had threatened
the lives Of Mr.. and Mrs. q. c. Taylor.
was the outstanding feature in the
testimony Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Jackson was shot to death on the
morning of June 26 at the apartment
house owned by Taylor Mt SD Carson
street.
You'll both pay for this with your
lives" Mr. and Mrs. c. W. Bowden.
defense witnesses, ,estifie Mrs. Jack
son had called down to Taylor as she
stood at the head of the stairs on the
night before the killing.
Mrs. Taylor. witnesses said, had
been in Mrs. Jackson's room on the
second floor and the two women had
come out.
You are n ,rty coward and a
dirty dog for sending your wife up here
and NOT coming yourself" the Bow
dons testified Mrs. Jackson had said
previously. Mrs. Taylor then went
down stairs where her husband was
a~d Mrs. Jackson left the house.
Calm They Saw Her With Gun.
Returning about l. 80. witnesses
I'D. they heard Mrs. Jackson say to
T.ylor in the hall, Il have an Officer
w';h me. leave me alone" Taylor
Witnesses Salu. lnSlSteu tidJ MIS-. OuNh
>pn lraYe the house that night.
You kiss my foot. I'd shoot YOU i
,i were a man but YOU are not 8
~1. YOU are nothing Bowden and
vile testified Mrs. Jackson called
< to Taylor as she went up the
,..frS
Tie first evidence tending to connect
Nlr>. Jackson with the ownership of
~ automatic pistol found by her body
also came from the Bowdens, tenants
- the same apartment house. About
:, week before the tragedy, Mr.. and
Yrs. Bowden testified, they had start
ed TO town. In passing Mrs. Jack
sons room on the second floor of the
apartment house, they said, they saw
her sitting at her machine.
Il saw small black object in Mrs.
Iackson'S hand and she was cleaning
it," Bowden said. when he saw us
she stuck it under some cloth on the
machine"
Pressed as 10 what the object was.
How4len testified that it was gun and
that it closely resembled the p auto
matte exhibited in court as having
been found ct Mrs. Jackson's side.
Mrs. Dowden was the first witness to
testify that the gun was not lying in
the hollow Of Mrs. JacksOn's shoulder
as other witnesses had testified, but
was lying between her forearm and
body on the floor. The forearm, she