This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jefferson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3961 Message Board Post: Seattle Post Intelligencer Sept 9 1905 Jefferson Found Guilty by Jury. Attempted to Kill Wife at Ballard in Quarrel Over Business Partnership Existing Between Them. J. E. Jefferson was yesterday found guilty in the superior court of assaulting and attempting to kill his wife at Ballard last June. The trouble took place in the booth of a sideshow run in connection with a traveling carnival by the defendant and his wife in partnership. Some time previous to the assault they had separated and the man had gone to Tacoma. On the day of the trouble he reappeared at Ballard and demanded to be allowed to join with his wife in the managing of the business, which he claimed to own, although the profits were derived from her work as a fortune teller. On her refusal to share the business with him he drew a pistol, and according to the verdict of the jury, attempted to kill her.