The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-07
TERRIBLE CRIME In PATRICK
4 Beautiful Young Girl Assaulted and
Her ASSailant LynChed.
HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF The YICTIa
Her Throat Cut. Skull Fractured in Tws
Places, and IA knife Wounds on the
Head-Alive 40 Lat Reports, hut
Cannot survive.

RALEIGH. " c.. September "a spe,
cial from Mount Airy. y. c.. TO the News
and Observer says that yesterday near
Friends. Mission, Va. Miss Sadie Cook, .
respectable young white eri was crlml-
Many assaulted by Henry Wall white,
aged about tWenty-ouo years
After accomplishing hIs purpose. Wall
ueaIt ms victim several blows over tho
mead with hoe, knocking her inscnsiblo,
ana thcn placing her head ON "a log. Crush-
td 10 with q fourteen pound stone which
was ieit lying bloody near by.
Wall then cut The girls throat sevorina
tne Windpipe and dragging the body soma
Hliy yards up raYine. threw 10 into
ntdnch, where 10 was soon afterwards
FOUND. Meantime, he went 90 "a spring
near by and was found washing the stains
from nus clothing.
The excitement became So intense thai
TINS afternoon Wall was taken by un-
known parties from the officers and lynch
cd near the scone of the crime
p, RESISTANCE ENRAGED HIM.
DANNlLLE, VA. Sept. Special
4 special from Stuart. the county-seat OF
Patrick county says Henry Walls, a
white man, ON Saturday evening made a
criminal assault ON Miss sadie Cooke.
whose home is boo the The HollOws." I'm
Patrick county near the North Carolina
llhe. Ihe woman resistance enragcd the
man and he beat hor cruelty and then cut
her throat from ear tO ear. The sheriff.
with posse. left Stuart lt once for the
scene of the murder.
This evening comes report that before
me sheriff reached the scene last night
the enraged citizens of the neighborhood
had caught ANA lyuchod Walls
This last report lacks confirmation. but
is believed to Dee true.
FURTHER DETAILS
STUART, VA. Sept. q. SpcCial.-Ncws
= IfaN hot mil
prove to Dee another horrible murder com.
mittcd in Patrick county. The name Of
the victim ls Miss Sadie Cook. a hand.
some and accomplished girl of eighteen
Years. She lived with her family I'm the
western part Of this county. In what 10
known as "Thc Hollow"
MEAGER DETAILS.
Tho particulars are somewhat moager,
but it seems that ON Saturday she was
| left at home alone while the other mem
bers OF the family We're ont visiting. Upon
Their return they found her unconscious
and covered with blood. about one hun.
dred yards from the house from which she
had craWled. ana The house ON fire. The
| evident intention of the murderer was 10
burn her mp iu the house
TERRIBLY WOUNDED
Miss Cooks throat was cut but tho
| jugular vein was not severed. and she had
ou her face and neck fourteen knife
wounds and ON her head several wounds.
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(which fractured her skull in two places
She was still alive when heard from. but
| her physician said She could live only "a
| few hours. She had not regained con-
! seriousness. and will ln an likelihood die
| without being able to throw light upon the
commission Of the crime
AN ARREST.
! Henry Walls has been arrested ON 9uq-
| pici0n. and it is thought f the proof is
| strong enough 20 connect him with the
| crime that he viii Doe lnched. Tho peo-
! ule boo that community are greatly eXcit-
! ed. and win show but littie mercy if sure
/ they have the man.
Sheriff R. j. WoolWIno and Commons
| wealth's Attorney j. NJ Hooker have both
! gone 90 the scene of the crime and 10 Is
| hoped that their presence VIII have some
! effect toward Qulet.ng amy mob and put
! ting down amy disorder chat might arise.
OTHER MURDERS
This is the nfth murder that has been
| committed in Patriot in less than two
! years. and this was within 70 few miles
! of the place whore A. B. Crawford's body
/ was found horribly mauglod Boo January.
! 1NW. Since that day four other murders
! have been committed and nobody has yet
] received any Punishment