Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-30

GFrom the Cleveland Herald. June 2s ]
WARRENSvILLE TRAGEDY.
A Sfep.Father Attempts to Murder
Two sOns-One Dead-The Other
Dying-Arrest of the Murderer.
John Cool, a resident of Warrensville,
twelve miles east OF Cleveland, made an at
tack upon two step-sons, Edward and
Henry Quayle, aged twenty and eighteen
years, with butcher knife, Saturday even
ing, and inflicted wounds upon both to such
an extent that Henry died in four hours
and Edward cannot live long. They were
| heirs to the farm where Cool lived, and
chose to select neighbor as their guardian
in preference to their step-father, which so
excited him that he determined to kill
them, their guardian, mother, few others,
and then himself. He was arrested before
the job was completed, and is now in the
county Jail waiting a preliminary examina-
| ton.
The particulars, as gathered from re-
liable source, are as follows: About two
o'clock Sunday morning, Mr.. Clark, a
neighbor to Mr.. Cool, arrived at the police
station and reported the facts of Cool hav-
ing stabbed his sons, and that he had taken
refuge in a house and threatened to shoot
/ any one who should attempt to arrest him.
Sergeant Goodrich and officers Rowe, Gantz
and Mckenna took carriage and drove
out, arriving on the ground about five
O'Clock in the morning. He found the
| whole neighborhooG in q great state of ex-
element. Cool was in his own house, alone,
and thither they proceeded to make the
arrest. just before the door was opened
the officers heard sharp report like the
explosion OF gun cap. Upon entering,
| they found Cool going through the motions
OF dying, having, as he supposed, shot him.
self. The real state of the case proved to
De that, in loading the gun in the dark, the
shot was poured out upon the floor, leaving
only heavy charge of powder in the bar
rel. The muzzle OF the gun made such a
deep impression upon the body of Cool as to
rend er it perfectly plain for some time after
he had been arrested. The explosion of the
powder set his clothing on fire. This the Of
GERS extinguished, and made the arrest
without any trouble. 1t was after day
light Sunday morning. The whole neigh
borhood, in a wild state of excitement,
guarded the premises during the night to
prevent his escape. No one could be found
who was willing to risk life or limb be-
fore the heavy charge of powder in the
gun.
The prisoner was brought to Cleveland,
arriving about s O'Clock Sunday morning,
and lodged in Jail to await a preliminary
examination, which will take place as soon
as the facts can be collected and arranged
The police officers sent for civil officer to
take the statements of the young men be-
fore they died. On the way to the city,
Cool was perfectly calm, joking and laugh
ing upon matters of ordinary interest in
the community as though he was upon a
pleasure trip. He says they charge him
with being guilty of the murder, and that
he doesn't know anything about it
He has been married to Mrs. Quale
about five years. He is a Manxman
by birth, has been in this country about IA
years, having spent considerable portion
of that time on the lakes-as sailor. He
is addicted to habits of dissipation, and had
been to Cleveland on Saturday, drinking
some during the day. His wife was form
Robert Quayle, the blacksmith near Central
Market. She is, perhaps, little older than
her husband, who is from AZ to 45 years of
age,and has never given birth to auy child
rem since her second marriage. Her children,
numbering fonr, were the fruit of her first
marriage. The two eldest, Edward, aged
20, and Henry, aged l8, were the victims
of his assault, Saturday evening. Henry
died about four hours after the wound
was received, almost completely disem-
boweling him, at the house of Robert
Bennett. Edward was living late Sun
day evening, but the surgeons say he can
not survive very long. The other children,
a boy about nine years of age, named Silas
Qnayle, and a girl, name and age unknown.
make up the remainder of the family. The
boy Silas was the only witness of the ter
rible struggle that took place between the
Cool and his victims. From
the circumstances, iJ appears that Cool had
been at home before the attack was made,
and had armed himself with a butcher knife
and loaded club or billy, like those carried
by the police, for the affray. Mrs. Cool was
~ Sc fhnn ohak1 k1nl
that she ran to neighbours when he re-
turned home, to avoid punishment, or per-
sonal injury. The boys did not live at home,
but were employed as farm hands by the
neighbors. By some means, the prisoner
learned that they were at neighbours
house after cabbage plants. He met them
on their way home, in front of Thomas
Cooper's house, in the middle of the road,
and attacked Henry first. Henry got away
with horrible cash below the stomach,
ran fifty feet and fell at the side of the road.
The other boy, Edward, to prevent the in
furiated father from iufiicting further in
jury upon Henry, seized the prisoner, and
a terrible struggle ensued. The fathers
shirt was almost torn from his back
While they embraced each other, Cool in
fiicted five severe wounds on the back and
shoulders, and wound up by cutting hor-
rible cash across the left breast. The affray
took place about fifty rods from the house
by the father, two miles east and
one-half mile south of the center OF War
rensville.
The boys, itappears, are the heirs to the
property occupied by Cool, and, against his |
wish, selected a man named Thorpe as
their guardian. Cool often said he would
kill them, and Thorpe, with three or four |
others whom he charged with having in
duced the boys to select Thorpe, alleging |
that these neighbors were interested in hav-
ing the farm divided so they could buy up |
the lots at low figures. 1t is said he snap |
ped cap at Mr.. Thorpe on Saturday night.
During the night he made will, giving |
Silas Quayle certain articles of personal |
property. and called young man into the |
them. He was evidently preparing to take
his own life. He did not seem to be intox- |
icated at the time of his arrest. He bid |
all the neighbors goodbye, and remarked |
in Joking way that the boys would not
steal any more negro coats. One of them, |
it appears, had been arrested in the city |
once, and was charged with stealing coat |
from some colored man.
Coroner Schenck held an inquest on Sum |
day afternoon. The verdict of the jury |
was in accordance with the facts given
above, that the deceased came to his death |
at the hand of Cool. Drs. Badger, War.
rensville, w. D. Stannard, Chagrin Falls,
and Thayer, of Cleveland, visited the young
men.
National Democratic Convention.
The Neu York Post, referring to the
headquarters of the delegations of the 4th
Of July Convention, says:
The st. Nicholas will be a great center.
The New York, Michigan and Nebraska
delegations will have their headquarters
here. This establishment will also afford
sleeping apartments, edibles and fluids to