Anthony Blaine Mowry was sick of being hit on.

He said 75-year-old William McMichael Jones, descendant of a steel magnate and popular figure in Ligonier Borough, had tried to lure him into his house a few times before, but he had refused.

The night of Sept. 16, the 18-year-old Latrobe man, home without leave from the Army, said he decided he was going to teach Mr. Jones a lesson when he was invited inside for drinks. But instead of merely beating him up, Mr. Mowry killed Mr. Jones when he fought back, he told police in a taped interview.

Yesterday, Westmoreland County District Judge Denise Thiel ordered Mr. Mowry to stand trial on charges of homicide, robbery, arson and theft.

Mr. Jones, a former media consultant, was the great-grandson of one of the founding partners of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. He resigned in 1988 as president of the Tribune-Review Publishing Co.

Mr. Mowry was arrested and taped his confession in Fort Hood, Texas, where he had rejoined his Army unit, three days after the killing.

The 18-minute interview was videotaped, but only the audio portion was played in court yesterday. In it, Mr. Mowry calmly detailed his encounter with Mr. Jones.

Mr. Mowry had been drinking that night, he said, and was walking down the sidewalk on East Main Street when he saw Mr. Jones staring at him from his apartment window. Mr. Mowry approached and Mr. Jones told him he had a drink made and Mr. Mowry should come inside.

Mr. Mowry told investigators he planned to "beat him up and let him know that, I don't know, that's not the thing to be doing." He said Mr. Jones had tried to lure him into his apartment unsuccessfully for years.

The pair had three or four drinks together and by then, Mr. Mowry said, he was "pretty intoxicated." They then moved to the bedroom and began engaging in sex acts. Mr. Mowry said he agreed to do so because he wanted to get Mr. Jones into a room without a lot of windows.

But when Mr. Jones attempted something Mr. Mowry didn't like, "that's when I flipped out," Mr. Mowry said.

He punched Mr. Jones several times, and when the victim started to fight back, Mr. Mowry said he choked Mr. Jones then beat him with a candle holder and large chimes from a grandfather clock. Then Mr. Mowry stabbed the victim several times with a kitchen knife and cut his throat.

"There wasn't really an intention until, like, after, I was just standing there and didn't know what to do and he was already laying, like, pretty much dead on the floor," Mr. Mowry said on the tape.

Mr. Mowry's public defender, Dante Bertani, argued that the tape should not be admitted as evidence because there had been an unrecorded interview prior to the one on tape.

Mr. Bertani said he would try to suppress the tape before the trial, since Mr. Mowry's rights could have been violated in the first interview, for which investigators did not produce a transcript or tape.

Mr. Bertani also laid the groundwork for a possible self-defense argument while cross-examining Detective Robert Weaver, who interviewed Mr. Mowry in Texas.

Mr. Bertani raised the question of whether Mr. Jones tried to assault Mr. Mowry or cut him with a knife, questions Detective Weaver admitted he never asked.