The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
kB COOK A PAINTER OF
MONROE CUT TO DEATH.
Staggered to a House With His
Throat Cut and Unable TO Tell
Who Did It-Coroner's Jur-
Finds No Evidence-Was on
the Way to Visit His Wife.

was murdered between three and
four o clock Friday morning, ON
West Second street in Charlotte.
He stumbled upon the porch of
a negro house his life 5 blood
ebbing from ragged knife-cut
in the throat which had severed
the juglar vein. Added to the
weiriness and gruesomeness of
the tragedy is the fact that the
man S hands were fearfully lace
rated as he sought to ward off
the knife thrus.s from his throat.
the palms and fingers being cut
in a dozen places by the knife
that in the hands of the assas-
sin proved as effective as an ex-
ecutioner's blade.
The colored occupants of the
house ,on the porch of which the
unfortunate man breathed his
last, were Julia Carter, Rebecca
Williamson and lola Moultrie.
They say that they We're arous-
cd by "A knock upon the door
and upon asking who it was, re
ceived an uaintelligible response.
Within the course of several min
uteS. lamp was lii and the
door WAS opened slightly. The
scene that INST their gaze was
horrible TO the extreme, for the
visitor was white man who lay
prone upon the floor with his
feet in the yard. while a stream
Of blood tlickled down the front
steps. The oaly movement made
by the unfortunate man after the
opening of the door. was turn
ing of the head TO the side; no
word being uttered
Neighbors were Immediately at
tracted TO the spot by the
screams of the thoroughly-flight-
ened women. and at 3:45 Chief
I. Nj. Christsnbury was notified
and hurried to the scene. See
ing that life had been extinct
for some time. he ordered that
the body be taken to the under
taking establishments of z. a.
Hovis 4 Co.. and held until fur
Their developments.
Tom Welsh Ct Monroe. who had
gone with Cook from Monroe
ON Thursday evening, was arrest
ed in the STATEN. There was a
red stain en- his collar, which
proved to be paint, and as the
Coroner s jury found no eviden-
ce against him, he was liberated
and returned to Monroe. Tom
stated that Cook had left him
at the station and said that he
was going to walk to Gastonia.
1t is believed that he left here
for that town.as his wife and
child were visiting there. He
had painted the day before with
Mr.. Walter McCorkle, at Mr.. j.
c. Turner'S in Buford township.
Mr.. McCorcle paid him $4.75,
and it is net likely that he had
more money than that. The body
was brought to Monroe Friday
night, and came TO the home of
the brother-in-law of the deceas-
ed, Mr.. Colt Trull. On Saturday
it was buried here, Rev. X. II.
The spot where the foul kill
James conducting the service.
The killing still remains a mys-
terry.
The spo whcre 1.-THE foul kill
ing took place is plainly discern
ible by the pool of blood. AT
the time that he received the
knife wound IN his throat which
caused his death, Cook was upon
the {. c. 4 A. Railway bridge
ON West Fi,s. street over the
spot where the Chadwick Hos
kins ear passes. From the huge
stains which indelibly place this
as the scene Of the attack the
trail of the wounded man until |
he fell upon the porch en- West |
Second street is plainly visibly. |
On several occasions he had fall |
len, only to pick himself up and |
stagger onward. At the inter
section of West Second and
South Graham streets, the bloody |
fingerprints upon the picket fence
are to be SEEM; while intricate !
figures of red were drawn upon
the door of the Carter house. as
the bloody hands of this deper-
ately wounded man CROPPED for
the doorknob in his death agony
To the doctors who examin
ed the wound in the throat, with
its severance of the jugular vein,
1t has been a matter of much
comment concerning the wonder