The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10
Related in Detail Shoots His Victims
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Sanity--SayS He Loves Wife.

Like So Many. Hogs Felgns Id
sanity Says He Loves Wife.
Asheboro, Dee. 3.-The facts OF the
triple murder which occurred in Kan.
dolph county Saturday night appears to
be as follows; Lowe Daniels denies hay-
ing warned his victims to stay away from
his home, as has been circulated since
the tragedy.
Edgar Warner, Lora Luther and Ethel,
alias Coon, Daniels, were the victims OF
Daniels gun. Edgar Warner was neigh
Dor boy, son of Ivy Warner, living not TAR
from the home of Daniels. Ethel, or
Coon, Daniels, is young woman "
years old, sister of Lowe Daniels ana
lives with her father, Will Daniels, in
Stanly county, and Dora Luther IS
daughter of Ransom Luther and sister OF
the wife of Lowe Daniels. The facts as
stated by Mrs. Rosetta Daniels at the pre-
liminary hearing on Sunday afternoon
are in substance as follows: Lowe Dan
iels left home on Thursday before the
shooting saying that he was going up to-
Davidson county where he lived When
small boy He took mule and buggy
and returned Saturday night and appeared
to be sober When he came to the door
Oh Inc S11ld11 IOOA3 dOout A1AAA
where his wife, her sister, and Edgar
Warner were sitting, he went into an adj
Joining room, got a gun, came back TO
the partition door and shot Edgar Warner
through the head. He never moved and
died sitting in the chair. He then shot
his wife in the arm, breaking the bones,
so that there will have to be amputatlon
if she lives. She is expected to die any
hour. Mrs. Daniels says in her evidence
that he never moved out of his tracks in
shooting Edgar and her. Pie came from
the partition door to the east side of the
room and shot Lora Luther, his wife's
sister. He was not more than . feet
from her when he shot her. After shoot
ing the Luther girl, Daniels said. Coon,
come here,' and Ethel, or Coon Dan
iels as she is called, came to the partition
door and he shot her through the head
as he had all the others except Mrs. Dan
iels. Mrs. Daniels stated that she saw
Coon fall and saw Edgar Warner lying
back in his chair dead and Lora Luther
on the floor dead. Lowe Daniels and
Ransom Luther laid the dead bodies on
the floor, said Mrs. Daniels; and she heard
them put the body of Coon Daniels on
the bed. Lowe Daniels married Lou
ella Luther, daughter of Ransom Luther,
eight years ago the 2Sth day OF Septem-
Der. i
TESTIMONY OF WILL HURLEY.
Will Hur?ey>was another witness OK
amined at the preliminary hearing before
T. S. Ridge on Sunday afternoon. He
said he was at Lowe Laniels' home about
8 O'Clock Saturday night, November ~.
He said he knocked On the door on the
west side and Lowe said for him to come
A.
and he did, and Lowe Daniels invited
him in. On going in Hurley said he pat
ted Daniels on the shoulder and said,
.sWhat does this mean?'' Thereupon
Daniels said, "Come and see." Edgar
Warner and Lora Luther were lying on
the floor dead Mr.. Hurley asked it he
had not better get help from the doctor
and Daniels replied and said, You see
what have done" /
Ransom Luther testified that he lived
in the house with Lowe Daniels, his SON
in-law. He said he was one-fourth OF a
mile away when be heard four shots
fired at 7 O'Clock; on seeing the three
dead persons and his crippled daughter,
Luther said, 81 asked Lowe what it
meant, he replied, I don't know Lu-
Their also stated that he heard Mrs Dan
iels say in the presence OF Lowe Daniels
that her husband fired all OF the tour
shots. Lowe Daniels stated on the pre-
liminary hearing that he killed the three
and shot his wife, double barreled
breech-loading shotgun+being used.
THREATENED TO KILL WIFE.
His wife also testified on tie prelim-
inary hearing that he had threatened to
take her life on other occasions, one
time being last summer. Mrs Daniels
showed no resentment toward her hus-
band. and kissed him good bye when
Sheriff Burkhead started to Asheboro
WITH him. Daniels was quiet at first but
at times became boisterous, repeating
poetry or doggefel bordering on vulgar
| ity. When he was taken back to the
preliminary hearing he stopped at DR.. G..
c. Hubbard's at Farmer, where he, with
the officers, had supper. While there he
was quiet polite and pleasant. He is un-
doubleday trying the role OF insanity but
acts it poorlyt On the way back to
! Asheboro Sunday afternoon he ques-
toned the officers about electrocution.
He admitted that whiskey was the cause
of this trouble, although at the time of
I the shooting he had been drinking moth
mo but still beer and cider. He said that
he had made whiskey regularly since he
was returned from court and in fact had
been reared dealing in whiskey, suppos-
ing he had made and sold 1900 gallons.
He described most minutely the process
of blockading.
Lowe Daniels is the father IF three
living children, aged respectively |, 8
and 7 There is one dead. He is just
waiting his trial in Superior Court
: There has not in the history of Ran
dolph county been such tragedy and
the entire citizenship of the county is
Mortified.
SAYS HE WAS NOT ANGRY
Il Mr.. Daniels later in an interview said
that after he ate his supper he went to
the barn to give his mule some rough
feed, came to the house, sat down by
the fire and was laughing and talking
with all of the ahove-named persons;
then he began reading the Kansas City
Times and something said to him, skill
these people, He says he does not