The morning times., 1896-06-28
Cooking REFUSED 4 CRAVE
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| the murder at his house. For some rea-
son she had TO defer her visit, and as
Sue has expressed it,, was very I'D that
| circumstances compelled her to dO So
| ahother story Is to the effect that a
| pensioner had been doing bus iHess at
Coekings 8 store for "a long time, and had
| always paid his bills with his pension
check. He had been very careful mol to
| let his purchases exceed the amount OF
| the check, but on one occasion, when he
! weut to pay his Till he found that he
had been considerably overcharge,i, and he
refaonstrated with Mr. Cooking for what
ne thocglt was an inIustice.b heated
words passed between the two men, and
AFTER the pensioner had left the place, he
| threatened To have revenge on tae whole
Cooking family.
| The fact that Cooking would be iynched
was evidently well known by Il number
| OF people in that vicinity long beror. the
| event took place. 1t was rutnorcd about
the place early III the evening that some
thing of the kind was going to ha ppep and
there were Il number OF people who quietly
waited IN the neighborhoOd for the pro-
ceedings TO begin.
Even In La Plata the residents received
information to tine effect that "A lyDchinS
party was being organized and that Cock
ing was to be taken out and hanged.
Among those WHO heard the story in the
latter place was Mr.. Theodore Loiirue yer, y T
this city. and who lives at 54 L s,ieet
northwest.
With 4 friend he drove down to Port
Tobacco about the time the lynchlnc OF
Cooking took place. Nothing OF tiic lynch
ing bee did Mr. Lobmeyer see, however.
! with the exception OF the body of Cooking
as 1t hung, suspended by the rope about
his neck. Mr.. .Lohmeyer says 1t must
have been IL 5i.ia che morning when be
and his friend drove across the bridge on
their way back to La Plata. At that tine
there were number of people on the
bfidIe. and the ,atteniioD or The two men
in the buggy was directed to the body
swinging I'D the breeze under the bridge
and IL was from these men that he heard
the story of the iynching. No time was
spent there. hogcyeg- and the drive back
to La Plata was made in quick time.
MIR. Lohmeyers denies that he saw the
man taken from the Jail or saw HIM on
his way to the bridge or the throwing OF
the man from the bridge after the rope
had hecn tied about his neck. He says
he did not see the lynchiDS party or any
member OF 1t. but dfri see the body hang
ing from the bridge Il few minutes after
the iynching tad taken place.
Tue last time Cooking was in Washing
ton was hut q short tirie before the bloody
murder was committed. He stopped at
Fritz Reuters, mt four-and-a-half street
and Pennsylvania avenue. Cooking ws>
known 10 Mr.. Reuter-, who bad talked
frequently with the man about the con
dition OF the land around Hill Top. Mr..
Reuter- owning farm in the vicinity.
Cooking never was taiEative man,
said MF. Reuter- to a Times reporter He
was very reticeHt. 1 would ask about
the farm and he would give me replies
to my questions. but seldom start a coz
versation. For some time Cooking stopped
here when he came to Washington, and on
the last three occasions l noticed that his
attir- seemed to lie getting poorer- ana
he seemed at the last visit to be more
than usually morose and silent 1
knew nothing of the man personally. He
always paid for his room in advance and
took his meals out