The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-19

grave was taken care or, ana uroVe away
He described cox as being about six
pounds He first called at tne Westfah
feet tall and Weighing probably $50
home on the 18th of August in the after
noon. at which time the contract was
made for the digging of the grave.
After the announcement of the death
of Morris in d runaway. three telegrams
we're received relative to the matter. One
was dated August 10. at Emporia, Kan
sas and read as follows:
City Marshal Orlando, o. T.:
Item in morning Guthrie paper says
Coda H. Morris was killed at Orlando.
Wire quick if true. Give particulars.
dgne0 MRS. c. H. MORRIS"
Another telegram sent from Emporia
On the following day. is as follows:
Joe Mathaes, City Marshal. Orlando:
Coming today. Do all possible to have
matter cleared up.
CSigned) "A. II. oBLEY."
The third telegram was from an Off
ciaI in the Woodmen lodge at Madison,
asking the clerk of the lodge at Orlando,
to ascertain the particulars OF the death,
OF Morris.
Up to yesterday, the person signing one
telegram as Mrs. c. H. Morris, sup
posedIy the wife of the man alleged 10
have been buried, failed TO put in an ap-
pearance. This is taken by the officers
TO mean that it was a part of the scheme,
to make il appear that Morris wife was
anxious 10 know about the accident, but
that the telegram was either sent by
Morris, or by some one working with
Cox
The statement was made here today
that man representing himself to be
Morris father-in-law, has arrived at
lrlando and is looking up the details OF
the mystery. 1t is said he produced a
picture Of the man supposed to be Nor
ris and that when it was seen by peo-
pie who had seen Cox, they stated it
was picture of Cox, or Of the man who
had been travelling under the name of Cox
in securing the coffin for the purpose of
hurying Morris.
The coffin used at the Bocox farm was
purchased of Chas. Christof, an under
teker at Perry. 1t is stated by the off,
GERS that Cox made a statement In Perry
that Morris had died suddenly of heart
disease, after having been i'll enIy three
days. 1t was also reported to the off,
GERS that he made the statement that
Morris expired from congestion Of the
stomach. This statement confirms the
opinion Of the officers that the burial Of
the coffin, without the body of the alleged
Gead man, is plan TO defraud. The
theory that Morris was murdered and
disposed Of in some other manner. is not
taken seriously by the men who have
locked into the affair.
The statement was made here aturday
by people from Orlando that party of
ladies' had driven by the express wagon
with its coffin while on the road 70 the
Bocox farm and that they noticed dis
agreeable stencil, issuing. as they SIM
posed, from the coffin. 1t was asccrtained
yesterday, however, that on the Bocox
iarm, near the cemetery. a horse had
been struck by lightning few days be-
fore and that the carcas was lying where
1t fell This was what caused the stencil
and not the supposed body in the coffin.
The man Cox is alleged to have made
q statement that Norris wife would he
Gown in few days and would attend
the funeral Of her husband. Later. how
ever, Cox stated that he talked with her
over the telephone and that she had
stated 10 him he need not wait for her.
but TO bury the body Immediately.
Cox is reputed to be a willy man. Al
the livery stable. where he hired his rip
he asked for recipe for the money naid
for the use of horse and vehicle. The
proprietor stated to him that he was ner-
vous and could not write well. He asked
Cox to write out the receipt and he would
sign it. Cox refused to do so. stating
that he could not write either and thar
the livery stabiep roprietor would have
to write his own receipt This is taken
as an idication by the officers. that coy
did not care to have any Of his writing
in the country, by which comma risors
could be made
The case IS mysterious one in all
respects and an investigation NAV bring
out some more particulars At mis-
time, however, IT has assumed a phase of
a scheme to defraud. and that Is the CON
census ~ opinion OF men who have
looked into the matter The very fact
that after such mysterious action on the
Tart Of the man Cox. that nothing but n
piece Of ice and two bottles Of embaln,Ing
Huid were found in the coffin. only
strengthens this idea in the minds Of the