L.C. Jenkins, chief of police of Thomasville, is in jail at Lexington charged with the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Jones of Appalachia, Va., whose dead body was found Friday morning in a room occupied by Jenkins at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Carter in Thomasville. The killing occurred about 1 o’clock Thursday morning and Jenkins fled, but returned to Thomasville Saturday and gave himself up. He claims that the woman who visited him as his wife shot herself, but physicians say that the bullet entered the woman’s back.
the most pathetic figure connected with the tragedy is a 5-year-old girl, Pearl Jones, who was the only eye-witness and who remained in the room alone watching over the lifeless body for nearly 36 hours, without food and without uttering a word that might have attracted passers-by into the room of horror. The child at first was thought to be the woman’s daughter, but it develops that she is the daughter of a dead sister of the deceased.
Jenkins has a wife and two children in Greenville, S.C, with whom he had not lived for 3 years. His mother also lives in Greenville.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, March 17, 1924
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