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Mrs. Katherine
Sahner was charged
in Louisville, Can-
ada, with being
drunk in charge of
a car. A policeman
said she would not
stop talking. The
judge: “That’s no
proof. A sober
woman talks like a
drunken man.”

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Miss Bowen go back to her parents
who were living in Alberta. The girl
refused and the romance continued
although frequently disrupted by
violent arguments between the two.
Usually these arguments stemmed
from the attitude Jones held for re-
ligion. He refused to go to the re-
vivalist church and be “saved.”

Mrs. Smith then took an active
hand in the affair and persuaded her
husband to release Jones from his
contract. Mr. Smith agreed and took
the boxer, who at the time was “dead
broke,’ to the border crossing at
Blaine. Jones was told in no un-
certain terms that from there on he
could make his own way—as long as
it was not in the direction of Van-
couver, B.C.

Jones had two fights in Seattle and
promptly made his way back to
Peggy Bowen.

Forced Seduction

The two had a fight in a hotel room
on February 28 when Jones insisted she
have relations with him. “He struck
me twice and I gave in,” Miss Bowen
testified later in Vancouver Assize
Court. She told Mrs. Smith, who
suggested informing the police.

March 4 was a dull, wet Vancouver
dav. The double-storied house at
1103 Union in the east end of the
city was divided into two separate
apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
occupied the downstairs suite, while
the upper section was rented by Mrs.
Jocelyn Wallberg and her husband.

The latter had just left for work
shortly after 7:30 a.m., when Mrs.
Wallberg heard a knock at the door.

’

“It was a colored boy,” she subse-
quently recalled. “He asked me for
some paper so he could write a
message and I gave him some.”

She left him at the door for a
while and when she went back he
was still there. “Mrs. Smith is down-
stairs,” she told him.

Jones hurled himself at the woman,
grabbed her by the wrists, shut the
door, and pulled her down on a

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chesterfield. Mrs. Wallberg asked if
he was Sonny Jones and the boxer

said he was. ‘Taken into her bed-
room, Mrs. Wallberg was bound and
gagged by an assortment of torn
sheeting and neckties.

“You'll read all about it in the
papers tomorrow,” Jones told her.
“Tm the boss now.”

He went downstairs and Mrs. Wall-
berg heard a woman screaming in the
flat below.

When her attacker left the upstairs
apartment, Mrs. Wallberg crawled to
the door and locked it. She heard Jones
running up the stairs and a few
seconds later he broke in the door.

Feigned Death to Escape Murder

“He hit me and I screamed. Then
I guess I passed out. When I came to
I found he was dragging me across
the room by my hair. He threw me
to the floor and hit me over the
head with a hammer,” she said. “I
passed out again and when I came to
I knew he would keep on until he
killed me. So I pretended I was
dead and opened my eyes as wide as
possible. He looked at me but did
not hit me again.”

The blows fractured Mrs. Wall-
berg’s skull, broke two bones in her
jaw, fractured her chin in three places,
and badly lacerated her head.

A neighbor was the first person to
realize that anything was wrong in
the Smith house. Thet afternoon he
went over with a message for Mrs.
Smith, saw a body lying on the floor,
and ran for the police.

Vancouver constables Bob Eagle
and Hector Simpson rushed to the
scene. Mrs. Smith was lying face
down in the kitchen. A bloodstained

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