Show T MASS S NG TRIAL S S PEED ED PAROLED CONVICT REPUDIATES YES YES' S CONFESSION MADE AT ARREST l M WL 55 III SI i 7 fl v S 'S 5 S S v 4 4 IsI I ti ff f 5 ii I h ki 4 k 5 h S L 5 7 5 55 1 l 4 5 v uli 5 S 5 LUTHER JONES Peers out from jail bars Suspect Blames Pal for 4 Murders in j Nevada I Special to The Telegram gram ELKO Nov Oct 19 Ar 19 Ar- Ar of Luther Jones 32 on a first degree murder charge in Elko's mass killing was continued to 2 p. p m. m Tues Tues- day S ELKO Nev Oct 19 19 Blam Blaming Blam- Blam 3 ing lug an accomplice Luther Jones 32 paroled convict sought today toi to to- J i day to repudiate a confession of the gruesome murder of four men mei in a tiny shack near near the stockyards here as Nevada justice justice jus- jus 1 tice moved swiftly in an attempt t. to send him to the lethal gas chamber D District Attorney Douglas Cas tie said Jones had signed a er of preliminary examination on ona ona a first degree murder charge and would be bo taken directly into trial court this afternoon to plead We had expected Jones would plead guilty guilt Mr Castle said but it looks now as though ie lie will enter a not guilty plea and make an Insanity defense Jon Jones s told me this that a a. companion fired the shots then gave him the gun He claimed his mind nind was a blank that he once had lad suffered a fractured skull and has not been sane S Charged With Murder Jones alias Luther Brown and H H. 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S formally is accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of ot the slaying of Walter Godke 29 Carson valley rancher The body of ot Godke was found at 6 p. p m. m Saturday in the shack with those of ot Otto Heitman 42 42 Douglas county commissioner and member of a wealthy family Manuel Manuel Manuel Man Man- uel 51 tit Basque cattleman cattleman cattleman cattle cattle- man and an itinerant identified as Joe about 40 A not guilty plea said Mr Castle will necessitate delaying trial until the he new jury team opening November November Novem- Novem ber 16 in state state- district court here The prosecutor said a guilty plea pleas is s permissible under Nevada law although a C cap capital a p I t a al I offense is charged and that the state would be burdened only with adducing evidence to show the degree of the crime S Lynch Fears Fade Rumors of mob violence faded today as officers proceeded with plans for an immediate arraignment arraign arraign- ment Crowds gathered last night but dispersed without incident Sheriff C. 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A Harper however in informed Informed Informed In- In formed citizens through the press here that he was sworn to protect all aU prisoners and would do so even if force were necessary Local police police po po- po- po lice have been augmented by deputies deputies deputies ties and tear gas bombs have havo arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived from the Carson City prison Mr Castle said that Jones gave a name unknown here as that of Continued on Page Two S Column Four CONVICT DENIES MASS MURDERS Continued from Page One his lis asserted accomplice and that officers doubted his story Why should I take all the rap Jones Forms asked the prosecutor Blames Other cr Man Ian Jones contends that he had a caliber 32 revolver and a cali li ber er revolver and that he gave the theatter latter atter to his companion Mr Castle said He told me the other man did the shooting then returned the 22 caliber gun to Jones A caliber target revolver was taken from Jones when he was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested at Carlin 26 miles west of here Friday night The weapon and caliber 22 slugs taken from the bodies of the four victims have been sent to Washington D D. C C. f for or ballistics ballistics ballis- ballis tics studies at the department of ot justice ustice laboratories If It I 1 plead guilty and get the death sentence when would they execute me Jones asked Sheriff Harper who signed the murder complaint Mr Castle told Jones he would be executed be not less than 60 days nor more than 90 after date of pronouncement of sentence Asks for Attorney Mr J Castle said Jones contended that after the shootings he and his companion separated agre agreeing ing to meet in Reno Jones told officers he wanted an attorney but none was permitted to visit him in jail An unconfirmed unconfirmed unconfirmed firmed report said a a. Salt Lake City lawyer la had arrived here to defend the accused slayer The district attorney said he did not expect it would b be necessary to invoke the Lindbergh law against Jones for the abducting abducting abducting abduct abduct- ing Thursday y of LeVon Nell NeB Ogden taxicab driver whom the confessed slayer admitted having forced at gunpoint to drive him from the Ogden Og Og- den city to Montello Nev Og-j Og We can still use the tho federal law however Mr Castle said I Jones confessed to Neil after ordering the cab in Ogden Og Og- den At Montello he said he forced the driver out of the car carand carand carand and himself drove to Elko Elkol picking up hitch a a. hiker en route Abandons Taxicab He said he obtained a a. new battery battery battery bat bat- tery at Elko and started west again but that the machine became overheated 10 miles out and had to be towed back He abandoned the machine and walked to the stockyards stockyards stock stock- yards he said a a. walk that ended In four violent deaths I Jones was arrested at a Carlin Carlm gambling house early Saturday when the caliber 22 revolver fell from his pocket to the floor He was questioned as a suspect In the Neil and his statements statements statements state state- ments led officers to search for the missing cattleman who last had been seen In Elko in Friday The search ended at t the little shack shack where ere all four bodies bodies' were sprawled grotesquely on the floor the he three cattlemen bound and body lying across them Confession Released At first Jones denied the slayings but after questioning all Friday night signed the confession and supplemented It with the story of the he abduction The confession rele released sed by Sheriff Sheriff Sher- Sher iff ff Harper said that he saw the cattlemen at the stockyards and that hat he held them up obtaining about 40 Then I took them to the shack in n the willows they walking in front of me it said My intention was to tie them up ux When we got to the shack there was a a. fourth fourthman man Steea there who must have lived in the shack I made all four get into nto the shack I Imade made the man who lived there tie up the three I marched over there thereafter after making him get some string I 1 was going to tie him up when he le started to strike at me and I shot hot him in the head We were inthe inthe in the he shack when I shot this man He fell ell on the other three and one of ol them hem said Help Oh my God I Ithen Ithen then hen shot each of them Mind l a Blank I I Then Then the confession sion said with Jones Jones' mind a blank he cl closed sed the door of the cabin placed some wood in front of it walked along the Jie highway and caught a ride to Car Carlm Carlin lin He Ho Inquired when the next bus would leave for Reno was told 10 1030 30 p p. p m m. went to the gambling house and sat In a poker game There he was arrested by WilHam William William Wil Wil- liam Ham Thornton Carlin night officer The time of the murders was believed to be about 6 p p. p m m. Friday Friday Fri- Fri day physicians ians saying the men had been dead about 24 hours when found Jones said he was Vas born at Am Am- baya Ind in 1904 and is the f father fathe ther of three children Has Hai Prison Record Authorities said he has served in Indiana and M Montana prisons prisons He was sentenced for auto theft at Cr Crown wn Point Ind and served five months A year later he was wa sentenced on a a. similar charge am and was was' was was- released after serving a littlemore little littlemore more more than Jhan a year He entered the Montana prison at Deer Lodge on J June ne 13 1934 under sentence of one on year fo for forgery and was released nine later He reentered th the prison June 17 1935 under a felony sentence of two years and was wa discharged about two weeks ago |