Jane M Jameson was born 25 Mar 1890 in Colorado to Peter Jameson. She married Victor C Fornachon (1895-1936). They had a daughter named Phyllis E Fornanchon (1919-2002).
Inmate #59537 San Quentin
Rec: 3 Nov 1936
Crime: Manslaughter
Term: 0-10 yrs
Age: 44
Prosecutor showed the jury photos of her bruises, they are still visible in her mugshot below.
2 Aug 1936
According to the newspaper reports she told several different stories of what happened. One account was he woke her up to have sex and she didn't want to, another account was he was messing around on her and wouldn't tell her who the other women was a third account that they were laying in bed and she woke him up because she wanted to talk and he refused to and she shot him.
When the police arrived Victor was still alive, he had left the bedroom stumbled out into the other room. The police asked him who shot him and he refused to tell them.
There are 2 different accounts in the papers as to how many times she shot him, one was 2 shot and one was 3 shots with a .32 cal.
Also to spice it up a bit their 17 year old daughter was in her room while all this was going on.
The previous year they had separated and Victor had given her a house and car and other considerations, as they were planning to divorce.
Here are some newspaper clippings I found.
Jane was released from prison by 1940 census because she was living with her father and her daughter in Long Beach, CA as a seamstress.
Jane M Jameson-Fornachon died 23 Dec 1965
I think maybe she should of gotten the divorce and walked away, although she was darn lucky to have gotten manslaughter and not murder and also lucky to have only spent about 4 years of a 10 year sentence.
Inmate #59537 San Quentin
Rec: 3 Nov 1936
Crime: Manslaughter
Term: 0-10 yrs
Age: 44
Prosecutor showed the jury photos of her bruises, they are still visible in her mugshot below.
You can see the black and blue eyes
2 Aug 1936
According to the newspaper reports she told several different stories of what happened. One account was he woke her up to have sex and she didn't want to, another account was he was messing around on her and wouldn't tell her who the other women was a third account that they were laying in bed and she woke him up because she wanted to talk and he refused to and she shot him.
When the police arrived Victor was still alive, he had left the bedroom stumbled out into the other room. The police asked him who shot him and he refused to tell them.
There are 2 different accounts in the papers as to how many times she shot him, one was 2 shot and one was 3 shots with a .32 cal.
Also to spice it up a bit their 17 year old daughter was in her room while all this was going on.
The previous year they had separated and Victor had given her a house and car and other considerations, as they were planning to divorce.
Here are some newspaper clippings I found.
Jane M Jameson-Fornachon died 23 Dec 1965
I think maybe she should of gotten the divorce and walked away, although she was darn lucky to have gotten manslaughter and not murder and also lucky to have only spent about 4 years of a 10 year sentence.
Interesting stuff. Good note about maybe she should have gotten a divorce, but how difficult was it to get a divorce in those days? We didn't have no-fault divorce until the 1970s, I don't think, at least not in many states.
ReplyDeleteThank You, She had it made he gave her a house, a car and money according to the newspaper article. Divorces were not hard to obtain at all in those days. I have actually found some who divorced in 1800's those might have been harder at least for the women.
ReplyDeleteGwen
I came across this story as I was researching my family genealogy. As it turns out, Victor was my great grandfather’s brother. So Jane would have been my great-great aunt by marriage.
ReplyDeleteThank you for you comment, feel free to use whatever I have posted, I also made them a tree on Ancestry and have a;; this on there.
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