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Show FEELING RUNS HIGH AGAINST ELKO SLAYER Nevada Officials Arc Taking Precautions Against Possible Lynching ELKO, Nov., Oca'. 20 (U.R) . p.(s wtrc incToasixl today ind the Elko comity jail as .Ijn,, intensified against ,t!lor Jones, following his ;cjion to fight a murder u-jrc i connection with a I'ldruple slaying and refusal , , court-appointed attorney to ,,-nd him. ' ,n,je kinsmen and friends of snanish cattleman, one ipf the men shot to death, talked Slay'nijllr f"r " Officials were nlarmed over the K owing resentment d cl M, 1 w,""p appere, likely. Sri( the chnnKc he grunted, Wrlfr O A. Harper doubled whether he could salVly nmvo h ox. wi M-Poned.ye.anesHCr.e'fo viei''h; ,3'---v,,,"-"1I former enn-vut enn-vut who has expressed interest in Nevada s lethal gas chamber, had heen expected t plead guilty when taken before Judge James Dvsart .yesterday, District Attorney Doug-as Doug-as Castle said. But Jones indicated indi-cated he had a companion in the idayings and asked for counsel Judge Dy.vart appointed C B Tapscott to represent Jones. Last n.Rht Tapscott announced he would not appear as defense counsel coun-sel at Jones' arraignment at 2 p m. today if he were held in contempt con-tempt of court. Townsmen had ' rumbled earlier When reports circulated that a Salt Lake City attorney had come to defend Jones. Tapscott interviewed Jones in the hitter's cell and when he left the jail he announced he would have nothing; to do with the case. Jones has no more defense th:n a jackrabbit, and I certainly will not take the case," he said. "I feel like the other people feel' in this community. It is an open and shut case." |