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Show 'the street and he told 1-fm Phe haJl been fo the cemetery. Doubtful. he nskod her '.f he was tCn the truth and ehe admitted that she wasn't. Jones testified. :,n that she had been out driving with Shevpard. Shcppard. she said, seemed to have An Influence over her, the witness les tilled. They separated to think things over. Mrs. .lonex jrolrv.' to her mother for a wrrk. Jones, when he met Fheppard. asked as to his Intlnvuy with. Mrs. Jones, to which Shcppard replied that he was attracted by her, but that hi meant nothing wrong. Tragedy Follows. In the meantime Jones learned, he eaid. that Mrs. .Tone8 had lied to h'.m aUut a I rip he and Sheppard runde to Woods Cross. Mis, Jonep was to meet him upon her return and they were to have supper tocether, but Mrs. Jones telephoned her mou'ifr that she had become HI suddenly and that he and Shepp.nd had missed the trains back to Salt Lake and xhe was going to spend the night with a family named Mops. Jone3 said he learned afterwards that neither Mrs. Jones nor Shenpard spent the night there ami that he was In a state of mental worry, mpern-duced mpern-duced by this discovery when ho saw Mrs. Jones and Shcppard enter the Wellington in the early mornlnpr of July 1 following which the shooting of Shcppard occurred. ilL CLERK TELLS OE THEJRffly Satt Lakp. Nov. 10 Thr fate or John A. Jonr-s, raltvay malt clerk, charped with first df-pieo murder in lho shooting down of Arthur V. Shop-purd, Shop-purd, gcr-nic artist, at llio Welllnpton hotel. July 10, will hr In th hands of the jury by noon or shortly after today. .Tones took the stand in his own behalf Wednesday afternoon and told his story of tVie rttooiinp practically without interruption. Once or twice the state's attorney halted him with unimportant fjueaUns. Wlien adjournment ad-journment tlmi came. Jones had Juf-t reached the tla2e where he entered the Wellington hotel to nnd his wife. Velma Godwin Jones, and Shcppard turnlnp away from registering as man and wife under the assumed names of "Arthur Forsyth and wife." The interest was intense anil Jones found enger listeners. Mrs. Jones was ono of tho auditors, hut showed no emotion. emo-tion. Jones Tells Story. Jones told of hi marria.ee to Velma Vel-ma Cowdln. July 15, 190:t, and of the birth of one child, which died. -Then came Shcppard hut it was not until January 17. this year, that ho suspected sus-pected anything wronp, he testified. Koturninp from his ruu unexpectedly he found Mrs. Jones pone Unable to locate her he wont to bed. Alout midnight Mrs. Jones returned, accompanied accom-panied ly shcppard. and her explanation explan-ation that Shcppard had taken her to the theater, afterwards to supper was satisfactory. March fj. however. Jones aaln returned Irom his run nnexect-ly nnexect-ly to tlnd Mrs. Jones away. Starting to the mother's home to Inquire about Mrs. Jones, he said, he met. her 011 |