The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-15

suaded Cox to leave the Hill.
This he finally consented to do, and
three weeks ago left for Kansas, and while
there concluded negotiations with a St.
Louis house to travel as salesman, selling
boots and shoes. He arrived home from
his trip on Tuesday last, and during that
day
TOOK AN INVOICE OF HIS STOCK,
which he had disposed OF to his brother
in-law, Mr.. Hugh Anderson. The trade
was to have been completed on Wednes-
day, and it was COx's intention to leave
Wednesday night TO accept his new posi-
tion. ALI arrangements looking to that
end were being consummated when the
tragedy occurred.
A few minutes after ten o'clock, on the
morning OF the 9th inst. Mr.. Cox was Sit
ting in the back part of his store on First
street, engaged 10 conversation with Mr.. j.
II. Pool, a gentleman who conducts . re-
pair shop in the same building with Cox
Mr. Sparks, clerk in Cox employ, had
JUST LEFT THE STORE
for the purpose of having handle put in
a hammer, and Mr.. Anderson, Cox brother
in-law, had but q moment before mounted
his horse and proceeded to the country.
What followed is best related in the Ian
guage of Mr.. Pool, who Was the only Wit
ness to the first of the firing, and this is
The way he gave il to the BAzoO man:
"Cox and were talking when / heard
footstep, in the front part of the
store, but did not look up, as
| supposed it was Sparks, the
clerk, returning. Cox, however, was on the
alert, and saw Ed. Adams advancing to-
ward him with double-barrelled shotgun
in his hands, when he said 10 me:
POOL, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
| acted at once on the suggestion and start
ed for the front door. Adams did not say
a word, but kept advancing, and when
within a short distance of Cox, raised his
gun and fired, but in the meantime Cox
had dropped behind the counter. The re-
port was not unlike that of two gun bar
rels, and l think both were discharged at
once.
Cox was still behind the counter, when
Adams approached and attempted to
strike him with the gun, which was
broken oyer the counter i'm the melee.
Both Cox. and Adams then drew pistols
and commenced firing, making their way
10 the front part OF the store as they did So.
When near the center Of the room,
COX WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY ADAMS,
out had gone out of the front door and
was not a witness to what subsequently,
TRANSFERRED"
From other sources, however. the writer
learned that some ten or twelve shots were
fired, and that Adams, after knocking Cox
dewn, bounced upon him, and with seem
ingly fendish delight deliberately fired
three shots into the body OF his PROSTATE
victim. One took effect in the left eye and
came out at the back of the head. Another
entered the neck, ranged downward, and
has not yet been extracted. The third
TOOK effect in the right arm, while it was
ioubled up, passing twice through the
flesh
While Adams was thus seeking Cox
life, Mr. "Dut" Adams entered the store,
and, pulling his brother off the bleeding
man, said:
"HE's DEAD; CONE AWAY NOW"
This latter, the relatives Of Cox claim, can
be verified by Gee. Clay, 7. F. Simon and
and Marshal James Henley.
When the firing first commenced, Mar
shall Henley at Cnce made for the store.
but concluded to remain ON the outside
until hostilities had ceased or at least had
abated sufficiently to permit entrance with
out man endangering his life.
He stopped down on the side
walk i'm front of the store,
and from the outside witnessed portion
Of the tragedy. As soon as
THE FIRING HAD CEASED,
the marshal took both of the Adams into
and little later also arrested
who had been seq with a pistol
during the melee, which ne placed in
cider press after the trouble was over.
Cox, during all this time, was lying on
the floor, and death was looked for at any
but as he still lived, he was car
ried on cot to his residence in the after
noon, where he received every attention
that medical skill could bestow, but his
physicians saw he has
NOT ONE CHANCE IN HUNDRED FOR RE-
COvERY.
When the BAzoo man left there, yesterday
he was gradually growing weak
er, and death would not surprise his friends
NJ uohcus
On Thursday the two Adams and Rear
don were takeIt before Justice Race,
where they gave bond for their ap-
pearance tomorrow, and were admitted to
bail-Ed. Adams in the sum of $4,000,
Dut Adams $4,000, and Bob Reardon
81 900.
The shooting has been the one absorbing
.opic of conversation in the usually quiet
little town, and when the examination
lakes place it is quite likely that
EXCITEMENT WILL RUN HIGH.
The prosecution will be conducted by
Attorney H Clay Daniels, of
Harrisonville, and Prosecuting Attorney
Wallace, of Jackson county, while Capt
Robert Adams, of Kansas City, and J. ID.
Irvine, of Pleasant Hill will look after the
interests of the defendants.
while at the Hill, the representative of the
BAzoo endeavored to interview ReardOn,
but he had retired on Friday night and
refused to see the reporter, hence his side
Of the story could not be learned.
Eriopda of the Ador,e, claim, that Cov