Evening star., 1937-06-26
D. c. WOMAN SLAIN,
HUSBAND STABBED
BY DRUNKEN HOST
Wilson Jones, Jr., in Cell,
S0bs He doesn't Remem.
ber" Tragedy.
J. W. MORRIS WOUNDED
TRYING TO SAVE WIFE
Tells Of Events Preceding Trag-
edy-Murder Charge Filed
in Prince Frederick.
B, a Stan Correspondent OF The Star,

By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. June
ga soft-spoken country youth was
charged here today with an attack on
his best friends" with butcher knife
killing Mrs. James w. Morris OF 528
Minnesota avenue northeast. Wash
ington, and critically wounding her
husband. Police said he was crazed
with liquor.
Mrs. Morris was slain as she sat be-
side her husband. in their automobile.
by Wilson Jones, jr, 81, at whose
fathers cottage at Parkers Wharf
they were staying Mrs. Morris was
stabbed in the left breast so savagely
that two ribs were severed and her
lung was laid bare. Another deep
cash was inflicted in her right leg.
Morris was stabbed in the right chest
After the killing Jones fed into his
fathers house where he was arrested
in bed a short time later by State
Policeman Charles Ma9aha on a war;
rant charging him with murder. He
was dazed with drink, the policeman
reported
Jones SoDs in Cell.
In the tiny Prince Frederick Jail
Jones recovered his senses several
hours later and sobbed that he could
not remember anything about the
tragedy
never drank so much in nv life
before Jones said. When I woke
up In this cell this morning thought
l was here for fighting. My God, l
cannot imagine stabbing Mrs. Morris.
She was one Of my best friends and
so was her husband.
can't remember anything about
last night. 1t seems to me was In q
night. l must have thought Morris
was beating me. but now l don't know
who l was fighting or who it was.
know l was in fight. though. because
look at this black eye and my head
is covered with bumps."
Morris Fights for Life.
Morris. fighting for his life in the
Calvert County Hospital here, asked
through clenched lips:
Have they got Jones in jail?"
Then his eyes flled with tears rs
he told. sasping for each breath, how
tragedy marred the week end OF re-
Taxation he and his wife had planned.
We came down here yes;erda
afternoon" he related Il have been
coming down here fishing for Is years
and usually stayed with Mr.. Jones,
ST., at Parkers Wharf. He runs =
store there. Mrs Morris and ] went
out fishing alone in . row boat in the
afternoon. Last night young Jones
suggested that he and his wife and
Mrs. Morris and l drive over to
Broomes Island for party. We
went to the dance hall over there and
had some beer and Jones began drink
ing whisky heavily. l don't know
how many drinks he had. went out
on the lawn for awhile and when l
came back Mrs. Morris was comfort
ing Mrs. Jones. who said her husba nd
had hit her terrific blow in the face
and almost knocked her out. They
told me Jones had been out out Of
the place. He was in the back seat
OF the car when We left to star. nome.
don't believe we exchanged A word
certainly not an unpleasant one
on the trip back.
Tells Of Staying.
When we stopped at the house he
jumped out OF the car and ran inside.
He came running back with the
butcher knife. Without saying 4
word he plunged it into Mrs. Morris,
who was sitting beside me nearest the
door, and then reached over before l
could do anything and stabbed me-
Then he ran away"
Morris said he did not know where
Mrs. Jones was when the stabbings
occurred, but authorities were told
that she leaped out Of the car imme-
diately behind her husband and f1ed
to q nearby vacant cottage, where
she hid.
Jones father came to the aid Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris and called Dr.
Page Jett, who pronounced the woman
dead, and brought the husband to the
hospital.
Young Jones is employed in his
fathers store. He was married five
years ago and has 4 4-year-old daugh-
ter.
An inquest was to be held at the
funeral home of A. A. Harkness &
Son, at Mutual, Nd, this afternoon.