The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-24
ROBBERY THE MOTIVE FOR
A. DEANE C0OPER'S MURDER.
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Of mine. Let them in. But the girls won't
stand for negro around. so you had better
get out Of sight when they come In"
Strother said Cooper. told him he would
give bin a signal later on SO that the
negro could take look into the room
while his visitors were there. unknown to
them. Strother told the boy to tell the
party in the carriage to come In. There
were three in the party. he said, one man
and two women. The man was q tall,
well-built man. and the girls were pretty
and well dressed. One was tall and slender.
the other petite. They passed through the
Office and he got a good look at them.
He says ha never saw them before. but
that they appeared to be familiar with
the rooms.
COOPER AND HIS VISITORS
WE'RE IN HIGH SPIRITS.
Strother says he remained out of sight
until Mr.. Cooper gave the prearranged sig
nal, and then he crept up to the door and
peeped in. He saw the man and the wom-
en- about Mr.. Coopers cot all apparently
in high spirits. laughing and cutting up.
After watching them for several minutes
he went down to tho basement and re-
plenished the fire. Then he went upstairs
to the room in the rear of the Office. His
attention was attracted by the antics of
two men in the alley adjoining the building
on the east, from which small window
looks into the room. He amused himself
watching them and listening to their con-
versatioE for half hour. he thinks. and
then went toward the coolinE-room. He
noticed the room was dark. and surmising
that the visitors had gone. went inside to
see whether Mr.. Cooper was In want Of
anything. He says he heard Mr.. Cooper
snoring hard. He turned up the light. and,
feeling q draft in tho room. went over
to the cot on which Mr.. Cooper was
lying. to pull a coverlet over him. As he
pulled the coverlet up around his head. he
noticed the blood on his head and on the
pillow, and realized that he had been
hurt.
He was badly frightened. he said. but he
hurried into his clothes and ran over to
the Cooper residence. where he awoke the
son and notified him that his father was
hurt. He accompanied young Cooper back
to the bathhouse.
The son telephoned Doctors Bernays and
Kier. and Doctor Moses W. Koge Of No.
35O2 Franklin avenue was summoned by
messenger.
TdCTolmen DoOlcy dNQ bolBeT. VINO were
in the neighborhood. were informed, and
they, in turn. notified the Ninth District
Station, and Lieutenant Wilson and Ser
geant Gleason hurried to the scene.
The surgeons found Mr.. Cooper with his
head lying in a pool Of blood. on the cot.
An examination disclosed hole in the top
of the skull. from which the brain was
oozing. The hole was about an inch in diam
eter, and the jagged pieces Of bone had
been driven in by the blow. There were
other evidences of fracture. and the sur
geons regarded the case as hopeless
Doctor Bernays says Cooper was struck
while he slept.
Cooper was removed to another cot and
an operation performed to relieve the press
ure Of bone on the brain. They told the son
that Mr.. Cooper would not survive, and
after the wound was dressed the injured
man was removed to his home.
son DISCOVERS Loss
OF VALUABLE JEWELRY.
Young Cooper. while waiting for the am
bulance to arrive. noticed that the 81 500
diamond ring which has father always wore
| was missing. and the flesh Of the finger
was lacerated, as though 1t had been for
chilly removed. An examination OF his
fathers shirt. in which his $500 diamond
stud reposed when he left home. showed
that this, too. was missing. A search Of his
clothes revealed his money intact. The po-
lice Immediately began a search Of the
premises for the missing Jewels and also