Show WYOMING MAN MANTO MANTO TO LEARN FATE J J. W. W Jordan Tells reUs Why He lb Killed Three Persons DOUGLAS Wyo Oct 12 By 12 By The Associated Press Press Press-J J W. W Jordan al alleged al- al alleged alleged slayer of three persons who yesterday related for the court his version of events leading up to the slaying will probably know his fate within a short time Testimony was to be completed by noon today and jury deliberation scheduled to start some sense time late this afternoon Jordan is on trial here charged with the slaying at Parkerton Parker ton Wyoming of his hs wife his son law Edward Lasher and John Ken Newby by a boarder at his home Jordan then being knocked unconscious by his daughter I Mrs Mes Edward Lasher whom he Is 15 said to have also abo threatened I The defendant nervously twisting a handkerchief in which he frequently buried burled his face related that after aller a 1 series of misadventures endeavoring to find employment outside of Wyo Wyo- Wyoming Wyoming ming he returned home to find fam fam- family famIly family ily conditions not to his liking Jordan related how the night before the slayings he saw taW Mr and Mrs Lasher his wife and John T. T New Newby by the boarder all start for Glenrock Wyoming He watched for their re return ye- ye turn and saw taw his wife and the Lash Lash- Lashers Lashers ers enter the Jordan home The Lash Lash- Lashers Lashers ers era soon won left leCt be he said and later he saw Newby leave his house and enter his own home That night he related he walked the streets and then in the morning obtained a gun the three deaths following Velma Lasher whose husband and mother was killed told yesterday esterday that her father had been loving and in indulgent In- In Indulgent indulgent but that ill health and changed fortunes caused him to have long brooding spells and she believed he lost his reason |