JIM BONNER
June 19, 1914
Yuma Sentinel

Yesterday morning at 10:05 o'clock Josephine Bonner shot to death 
with a pistol, Jim Bonner, her husband at the Bonner home 
three-fourths of a miles from town on West First Street. 
Immedieatly after the shooting the officers were summoned and 
Mrs. Bonner was arrested and landed in jail.  The shooting was 
over the ownership of a few chickens.

The inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the justice court 
rooms by Judge Jones, and the jury which was summoned returned 
a verdict tha the shooting was accidental.  Mrs. Bonner is held 
to answer to the grand ury and will have her preliminary trial 
the first of next week.  The two participants in the shooting 
were colored.

The jury was:  C.T. Cowell, James Neahr, Roy White, F.R. Hull, 
R.E. Martinez, W.W. Aune, J. Berry and U.S. Smith.

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