Show Prisoner Faces Murder Count ANGLETON Texas Dec 15 UP UP-A UP A year old convict faced murder charges Wednesday for slicing off the head of another prisoner in the presence of other ther inmates who dummied up to o protect the slayer Ernest Cleve e Jones confessed Tuesday that he decapitated Clarence Clarnce Clarence Clar- Clar ence nce William Villiam Redwine 38 with witha a heavy vegetable knife during the evening meal at the Retrieve prison rison farm near here Four guards were on duty in inthe inthe inthe the mess hall but at the moment of f the slaying their attention was wasa a attracted to a disturbance raised by 10 or more prisoners in another part of the mess hall It was not determined whether the disturbance disturbance disturbance disturb disturb- ance was created deliberately to distract attention from the killing kUling Authorities led by prison system system tem em director O. O B. B Ellis questioned prisoners intensively for 24 hours but ut none would admit witnessing the killing Jones finally broke down Tuesday and confessed Jones told Ellis that he feared that hat Redwine planned to kill him because of an old grudge Redwine had accused Jones of squealing on him when he was placed in solitary last year for attempted sexual perversion Ellis said aid As a worker in the prison kitchen kitch kitch- en Jones had access to knives during the evening meal he picked up a vegetable knife with a heavy inch 12 blade and went to the table where Redwine was eating |