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WhoKilledHermit Of Paris?PARIS, Tex. (AP) - “The likeness of Jones will remain in my display window until his killer is found.”So says Paris artist Anthony J. Paness, who painted a picture of A. Jones the week after the 79-year-old hermit was murdered four years ago.The picture has been in the front display window of his downtown art studio ever since.“I want the man who did it to see Jones every time ne passes,” Paness said.Although known around town simply as “A. Jones,” the victim’s name was Auvord Bevans Breathwaite Jones.He was murdered in his shack Jan. 25. 1963.Jones was a gentle man, liked by the little children who followed him as he walked about town selling the brooms he made on his ei^it acres of land on the city’s outskirts.A decided eccentric, he told fortunes, was a leather prophet. a Bible scholar, a health food addict and a linguist. His friends were few but.8he was respected. 'Jones came to Lamar County in 1922. He was a strange one from the start and kept a veil of secrecy about himself.He lived in fiye small shacks, which he built. One was for sleeping, one for cooking, one for working, and so forth.But he was an educated man. Bibles in German. Spanish, French and English were found among his possessions, as werevarious fofeign-language magazines and newspapers.Over the years, the inevitable rumor grew: The!old man had a lot of money stashed in his shack.Whether he did is. still not known. However, he refused *o take payment from the state when a new highway lopped off a corner of his land.“He said he didn’t wrint the money, that the new highway made it easier for him to walk into. town,” said County Attorney Jim Thompson.At any rate, two neighbors thought it strange that they had neither seen nor heard of Jones for four days. They investigated. and found him dead.His sleeping hut had been latched from the outside. Inside was his battered body, the hands still bound with twine.A severe winter had frozen the body in the unheated shack. An autopsy showed that he either died from repeated blows onthe head, which did produce unconsciousness, or froze to“Maybe one of them did it.” Case records reflect that Jones was last seen in a grocery store on Jan. 24. He bought two packages of chicken gizzards, 24 cans of tomatoes, some onions and a sack of potatoes. He took money from a sheaf of bills he carried inside his hat to pay for the food.Officers found three hats in the sleeping hut. There was no money in any of them, or anywhere else. 1His only known relative, a brother, Barton E. Jones ofSpiceland, Ind., wrote to the county attorney:“For the world of me, I don’t see how anyone could have hurt my brother.Investigating officers have received tips on the case but none bore fruit. One-man even confessed to the murder, only to deny it after he sobered up.Officers keep waiting and watching but they admit that they have no leads.The picture of Jones in the art studio stays in the window. Perhaps the killer looks at it every day.pillill!iilllliilllllll!HI!ii!(ll!ililflt;illlty^^'H imZT.death.Robbery, ' sparked by the money rumors, apparently was involved, although it cannot be proven.Thompson said investigators theorize that a hitchhiker from the nearby highway might have done him in, or that possibly a wino tried to rob him.“Winos knew that when they got down and out and hungry.Jones would share what he had.... 3to eat with them,” he said.BusinessProblems Of Keeping-TTGoldflow' StandardCUNNIFFMirrorBy JOHN CUNIFF AP Business News AnalystNEW YORK (AP) — Solid gold really doesn’t flow, of course, but the “goldflow” will be one of the nation’s most persistent and serious problems this year.The apparent contradiction isn’t the only one that relates to the brilliant, malleable and scarce metal that is almost universally accepted as paymentHow did foreigners get this surplus? Ironically, the great wealth of the United States had something to do with it. Since we have plenty of money we spend a lot, much of it abroad. We leave our dollars there and fake home goods..Tourists traveling in Europe contribute to this • outflow. American corporations building new plants abroad are partly responsible. Foreign aid, of allch
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Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 13, 1967
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