The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-10
COLD FLOODED MURDER
DEAF MUTE SHOT AND ROBBED AND
SLAYER IN ANDERSON JAIL.
Double Tragedy by a Jealous South
Bend stone Cutter--A Lafayette
kilIing-State News.
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PENDLETON Ind. May 9.-Last Satur-
day afternoon Thamer Cory, twenty-three
years old, shot and killed Davie Hedrick
aged about thirty while the two were pass
ing through heavy woods on the odd
Crull JAM" seven miles southeast of this
city and four miles from Markleville The
particulars are out of the ordinary, and
are as follows: Hedrick was q deaf mute,
and he and Cory had been drinking to-
gether at Markleville in the morning. Early
in the afternoon, together, they went into
the country to the home or Cory STEP
father, by the name of Rozell. They found
no one at home so they determined to go
across woods to a Mr.. Bennets, who was
a relation of Hedricks. When about two
hundred yards in the woods Cory claims
they saw a squirrel, and that Hedrick, who
was in advance, turned and motioned to
him to shoot it. Cory says he pulled his
revolver and shot at the squirrel when it
was about three feet from Hedrick, but
missed it, and that then Hedrick motioned
to fire again. He did so, and he says he ac-
cidentally hit Hedrick in the head. The
facts in the case do not bear out Cory S
statements. Hedrick, early in the day, had
$50 in money, and this sum, with other be-
longings, was taken from his pockets by
Cory, who then folded the dead mutes arms
over his breast, placed bouquet OF HoW-
ers in his right hand, and his (Cory's) re-
volver beneath his right arm. He then
commenced to spade up place to bury the
victim, when Mike Creason, neighboring
farmer, who was out looking after his tur-
keys came calling through the woods.
Creason had heard the shots, and he asked
Cory what the trouble was Cory said he
had accidentally killed Hedrck and was go
ing to notify the BENEFITS. Creason by this
time had come to the scene of the tragedy,
and he also went to notify people. Others
working in the fields who had heard the
shots began to arrive also. The shots were
fired quickly from a self-acting weapon,
and. instead of one wound, there were two
bullet holes in the mute's head. Not only
this, but the mute's jugular vein had been
severed by a knife that had been buried in
the neck, and then twisted in a fendish
manner. There We're also six other knife
slashes on his neck Cory was held by a
posse of farmers, and Acting Coroner Jesse
Sells was notified. Saturday all of these
particulars were not known, and the re-
port was given out it was probably an
accidental shooting. Sunday, however, the
coroner rendered a Verdlct or murder In the
first degree, and Cory is now in Jail at An
derson. Throughout the coroner's trial the
accused was cool and collected, notwith-
standing the damaging evidence against
him. The fact that he had taken the mute's
money largely influenced the verdict, 1t is
probable, also, If the farmers in that neigh
borhood had understood the facts in the
case in time. the county would have been
rid of Corys trial. When the facts came
out the accused was at Anderson. The vic
tim was an inoffensive man, who worked
around among the farmers. Cory is also
a farm hand