JONES, Arthur E.

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ April 30, 1954 Coroner’s Jury Heard Testimony On Jones’ Death A coroner’s inquest was to be held Thursday afternoon in Justice of the Peace, R. L. Westall’s court to determine the cause of the death of Arthur E. Jones, Wickenburg miner. Mr Jones died at Community Hospital at 4:17 a.m. Wednesday. He was admitted early Tuesday morning with a gunshot wound through his right chest. Jones’ mother-in-law, Mrs Elenore Williams, of Wickenburg, who has been held in Maricopa County jail in Phoenix in connection with the shooting, was expected to be brought here to testify at the inquest. Mrs Williams was taken to Phoenix following the following the shooting by sheriff’s office deputies and was held there under orders of the county attorney’s office. Savage’s Story According to Chief of Police Richard Savage, Jones broke into the home on Madison Street in Reed Addition occupied by his wife, Jane, Mrs Williams and the Jones’ daughter Denise, 10. Savage said he was called to the home shortly after 3 a.m. by Police Officer Carl Adams, who had, in turn, been summoned by a neighbor, Mrs Houston Anders. Chief Savage said he found Jones lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from the wound in his chest. The bullet, said Savage, was a .22 long and it lodged in the man’s back after traveling through his body. He was taken to Community Hospital. Fired Rifle The Chief of Police also told The SUN that he found a .22 rifle in the room and that Mrs Williams told him she had fired at Jones when he made a threatening lunge at her. On the coroner’s jury, which viewed the body of Jones before it was sent to the county morgue in Phoenix, were D. W. Hammon, E. J. Montgomery, Robert Hartman, Russell Stone, William Reedy and Verdie Hale.