|
a.
|
Note: from the Eskridge Star, Thursday, Sept. 12, 1895:
Walnut Grove: Messrs. C. and E. Cox went to Topeka last Friday to meet their brother John, who has been a resident of Texas for the past three years.
from the Eskridge Star, Sept.20, 1897:
Pleasant Hill --- John Cox, of Texas, is visiting his parents and friends in this neighborhood. He will start for his home in Texas tomorrow.
from the Topeka Mail and Breeze, Sept.24, 1897:
Dover --- John Cox is home on a visit. He works on the railroad in Texas.
from the Topeka Mail and Breeze, Jan.3, 1902:
Dover --- Mr. and Mrs. John Cox of Ft. Worth, Tex. are visiting relatives here after an absence of several years.
from the Eskridge Star, Apr.2, 1903:
Harveyville --- John Cox, of Cleburne, Texas, is here visiting relatives.
from the Eskridge star, April 16, 1903:
Harveyville --- John Cox, while here, bought the Burke farm near Burlingame. His brother, Charley moved on it.
from the Harveyville Monitor, Harveyville, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, Thursday, Dec.7, 1916:
JOHN COX KILLED
Tuesday about noon, word was received here that John F. Cox, son of Aaron Cox, had been shot and instantly killed by a negro in Topeka.
Aaron Cox and his son Edward left at once for Topeka, being motored there by Dr. J.W. Cook and E.W. Lee and they made record time.
Wednesday's Topeka Capital says:--- While attempting to arrest Claude Biggers, a 19-year-old negro who was hunting without a license six miles Southwest of Topeka Tuesday morning, John Cox, 47 years old, a deputy game warden, was shot and instantly killed by Biggers. After removing the commission of the dead officer from his body and tearing it up, the negro fled to his home in Topeka, where he was arrested. Fearing mob violence, the murderer, who had confessed to the crime, was spirited to another jail by Sheriff L.L. Kiene at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The officers did not make known their destination. . . There was a tragic scene when the wife and daughter of the murdered man were notified. Josephine, the 14 year old daughter, was attending the Seabrook school, while the mother was visiting friends in Seabrook, a short distance away from the school house.
Tuesday noon while the children were playing in the yard around the school house, the principal stepped out and called the girl. He put his hand on her shoulder and told her that her father had been hurt. Her smiling face clouded, warned by a childish premonition that bad news was in store for her.
"Tell me the truth," she insisted.
In a big motor car driven up in front of the schoolhouse was Mrs. Lena McCorbett, a friend of Mrs. Cox, and it befell Mrs. McCorbett to tell the truth to the child. They were then directed to the girl's mother. The pair was hurried home, where Mrs. Cox collapsed.
At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon another car hurried into the drive of the Cox home. It contained Aaron Cox, the aged father of the murdered man, and Edward Cox, a brother. They had heard of the news in their home at Harveyville, and had rushed to Topeka. The old father was heart-broken.
"To think they could kill my boy in cold blood," he said with a husky voice.
The funeral will be held at Topeka this afternoon, conducted by the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a member. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Aaron Cox and two children Mildred and Aaron and Mrs. Edward Cox and daughter Minnie left this morning for Topeka to attend the funeral.
|
