Show THE I 1 CRIME OF CAIN Rees eJones murders his aged aged A brother Ur other 11 a A FATAL quiet tattle asbuth weber tho the scene of a dread domestic tragedy this forenoon a report was circulated that a shooting scrape took place at south weber in davis county last evening whereby john jones avas billed killed the report was quickly authenticated and representatives of the codr and of the salt lake berald were dis die patched to obtain particulars immediately the facts obtained are as follows rees jones is an old army pensioner having baying fought in the war of the rebellion on monday he lie came to town and obtained his pension and it appears took the opportunity ao to whet up 1118 hie appetite for alcohol he ile went comein home in an intoxicated condition and took along more alcohol to keep up hia his carousal this he put in a shanty and tho the day following tuesday was spent by reese jones and john jones brothers carousing the bout was continued through the day and that afternoon reese jones went out to fo secure some ome provisions provisions and returned with some ome batter when ho he went into the shanty again john attacked him being maddened with liquor and bused abused him fearfully ho he knocked him down and got his head between the flour barrel and the wall battering it up terribly then john and afterward afterwards wen went t oal out and nd st started arteil towards tho the house of a soa eon who lives down near the horseback after reaching in there restarted he started back to get a bridle which ho he had left ai lit I 1 elace place in tho the mean time beese reese had ad attempted to saddle a horse with the intention of fol following lowin 9 his brother he was unable to ascom bluh lish his task ho however veyer and the boree broke away reese roese started out oui hii on foot and met it john coming backi when they met reese told his 1113 brother he would have to kill him and immediately mediately ira fired cdan fir an old ai army gun loaded with no 4 4 bird shot at john the charge tok took effect in johns right side inflicting it mortal wound one shot also struck just under the lip reese went on and waa was met byi by johns son who was coming along he informed the young manthai man that he had killed john ho to was remonstrated rated with but remarked that he would kill any a of a b who would batter up hie hii face a as 3 john had he then continued on to the house and told mr jones jre wife of the incident f she hastened to fo assist the unfortunate man i but be he was past all mortal aid the slayer of his brother gave himself up to tho the justice of the peace parley PA prophet and an inquest was held last night a verdict in accordance with thel the libove above facts being returned today to day jones was turned over to the sheriff of davis county and an examination was progressing this afternoon prosecuting Atto attorney iney barton conducting the c case as a for the people the murdered man had the reputation of being very quarrelsome particularly when under the influence of liquor for this reason he has been separated from hii iiii hi i wife for some time past he was about 67 years of age tand reebe u was aged about 54 years the face presents present sla sorry picture he had previously lost the eight cofone of one eye lutitia but it is almost impossible now to tell if he has eyes or bot not his ill a head hedd and faco taco are ire so 80 swelled it is evident he lie was severe severely y punished by his big brother and undoubtedly corn com mitt bitted ed his big rash act while smarting under the 08 abusive treatment of his bli older and larger brother he lie makes no secret of his deed and is free to give the particulars tic ulars most of these given above were obtained from him the th e af fairl bas created the greatest excite ment as all the parties are old res denta dents I 1 I 1 I 1 |