On May 17, 1917, Felix Jones in his latest contract killing beat Thomas Lyons of El Paso to death with a hammer.
Felix Robert Jones was born in 1875 in the Central Texas county of Coryell. One of nine children, he grew up to be the only bloodthirsty psychopath in the family.
Jones was, however, related to “Deacon Jim” Miller, the notorious shotgun assassin. While they came into occasional contact, there is no evidence that Miller, 13 years older than his distant cousin, taught Jones the tricks of his deadly trade…