Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-25
Very JOViaI Generally-A COlOred Boxer
Arrested - Belle JOhnstOn's State
ment-The Murderer Willing to
Return to New York VOlua-
tarily-COntinuatiOn Of
his Confession.

colored, to whom Cox gave portion OF the
iewelry he stole from Mrs. Hull on the night
he sutfocated that lady, has been arrested
and the missing jewelry recovered. The girl
was asleep when arrested, and around her
neck was the topaz necklace.
A reporter of the EUeniJl9 Post to-day
found the landlady Of the house where Chas-
tain Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, former
ly lived. She is a Mrs. Robinson, and said,
when told that Cox was arrested for the muir
der, ST never would have believed it of HIM;
he was the most quiet, gentlemanly person L
ever had any dealings with. I'm sorry for
him and his mother" Mrs. Robinson said
Cox had many friends, many of whom were
CONNECTED WITH THE ABXssIAN BAPTIST
CHURCH,
Waverly place, of which he was a men,
Der. She said he paid his board bills
promptly for two or three months, when he
lost his position. He never appeared to have
a great amount of money, but this did not
appear to cause him any great uneasiness, as
he was of very jOVial disposition and was
continually joking and playing tricks upon
fellow-lodgers. A short time alter he
secured a situation as cook In the house of a
doctor, in West Twenty or West
Twenty-third street. He retained this posi-
ton for three weeks and left, giving as
reason that he did not like the character Of
the people in the house. He paid up the
balance OF board due, and from this time on
he had no work, except odd jobs at laying
CARPETS Mrs. Robinson said Cox was very
steady in his habits, although he frequently
staid out ali night. When away thus one night
be explained his absence next morning by say
ing he lodged with a friend down town.
She had never heard him speak of any
woman, but he had said he was a widower.
his wife having died while he was IN the
south. Cox said to Mrs. Robinson, Wednes-
l. Al. II 10 ,-al
of loafing around the city, and was gong to
Saratoga to look for work. Later IL the day
he said he was going TO YOnkers, where he
had been offered Il situation IS cook. He
left the house about three o'clock that even
ing.
HE WAS VERY J0VTAL,
and babe her good-by in hearty manner;
he was not in the house the previous night;
she saw nothing of him until Monday Of last
week, when he returned with stranger,
whom he introduced as Mr.. Bacon, or Mr.
Beekman; this man, he said, was employed
on one of the sound boats, and his home was
in Newport; he remained about the house,
going about the streets with his friends, and
did a job of campaigning last Wednesday;
he settled all his arrears for board, and APP
peared to have more money tbRn usual,
though he made no lavish display of 1t;
Friday morning he told her he was going to
Newport to visit his friend; she told him she
was going to leave the rooms the first of
July. and iokingly said that if he was not
here she would put his trunks on the street;
he was engaged all day in packing his trunks
and goods, which he sent away about one
o'clock, going himself about two hours late.
APUGILIsT DETAINED.
George Taylor, boxer at Owney Geoghe's,
has been arrested. He is a colored man.
Bella Johnson gave up one OF the rings
which Cox presented her. He and the girl
were at the coroneS's Office to-day, and we're
subsequently sent to the house OF detention.
Bella johnson said her acquaintance with
Cox began last winter, when he was
cooking for a family In Twenty-sec-
ond street, and procured her
place in the same house to do homework.
He gave her the jewelry soon after the tenth
instant, the date of the murder. She also
said that Cox came to her again on Wednes-
day, the eighteenth, saying that he had just
returned from Boston. He then gave her
one of the rings stolen from Mrs. Hull. The
next day he asked her to get her own ring
for him. She requesteds the old colored
woman to pawn It for her. The woman did
SO. getting thirty dollars on the ring. The
thirty dollars were given to Cox, vino left.
saying he was going to Boston.
WILL RETURN VOLUNTARILY.
BosToN, June M.-Cox, who killed Mrs.
Hull returns voluntarily to New York to-
night. To-day he was taken to a photo.
graph gallery, and large crowd followed
him to and from the city hall. Cox told the
officers he had no idea Mrs. Hull was dead
until twenty-four hours after the robbery.
Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, says in
his confession, that when he was in the room
of Mrs. Hull, the lady awoke, and recog-
uizing her peril, she begged HIM to take any
thing Of hers he wanted, but not to kill her.
He then placed his left hand over her mouth,
she struggling all the time to release herself.
Finally she became quiet, he holding her
firmly all the while, and taking the sheet in
his right hand, he tore IL with his teeth into
strips. He placed one end of the sheet over
her mouth, and then proceeded to bind
her as her body was afterward found.
His object in tying her to the bed was be-
cause he feared she might manage to roll off
the floor and thereby make a noise, which
would arouse some of the inmates of the
house. He says that he had no idea that he
was exercising violence sufficient to cause
death, or that even serious results would fol-
low the affair; at this Juncture he did net
have the least idea that the woman was 60
ing to die; after tying her feet he says that
he lighted piece of candle he happened to
have ia his pocket, and which he
had bought some time previous while
in pursuit of his honest occupation ;
he returned to the Kitchen where he got pos
session OF watch and subsequently got the
rest of the iewelry in the bureau drawers
and the bed chamber; he then returned to
the chamber and, finding Mrs. Hull breath
iDg hard, became frightened and taking up
bottle of cologne poured the contents over
her face. She continued to breathe hard,
and he dashed a pitcher of water that stood
by over her body. When he was searching
for the jewelry he went through the trunk of
his victim aud, after pouring the water on her,
hastily fled by the front door, which he leftopen
after him. He says he did not outrage Mrs.
Hull, and further that such "a thought never
entered his mind. On leaving the house he
returned to his lodgings, on West Thirty
sixth street, aud got home and into bed
without the inmates knowing it. He never
drank anything, and so he knew what he
was talking at nut. The first he knew of the
murder, he says, was the next day, when
riding on Eighth avenue, the car-driver re-
marked: "What terrible affair that was
last night on Forty-second strC ct. | see Mrs.
Hull has been robbed and murdered" Cox
says when he was told this the blood rushed
up into his head, and he felt as if he was
| burning. After leaving the driver, he went
| up to Forty-seeond street, end on passing
| opposite to Mrs. Hull's saw Deto otive Scher-
mltberger 'and other detectivesj he SAID he
| did not dare look at Mrs. Hull's house and
went to his lodging. He came u Boston or
the Thursday following the murder, reaching
| here Friday morning. He returned to New
York to get his things at the clearinghouse
on the following Monday, and while on hi
why to his old lodging passed the New Yorl
detectives again, but they didn't suspect hin
and he came back to this city safe again OF
Friday last.
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