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8 B TTEAJIRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1913. DR. SEWELL'S SLAYING STAYS MYSTERY AS COX LOSES MIND AND SPEECH Young Austell Patient, Who Killed His Physician, Recovers Health, but Is Hopelessly Insane and Tongue Is Silent—In Milledgeville Institution. W M, COX, young Austell man, who killed his physician, • now speechless and insane in Milledgeville. WKh (tail ey»» startn* blankly ataasi, or rovlnj? aimlessly from point to point, an old-young: man alts day after day In the State Asylum for the Insane at Mflladgevilla, unconscious of*h* facte that he ta a unique figure. A slayer. he has never been tried on the change of murder, although his crime wm committed three years ago. Etei'pTO'bably never will be tried. He 1 a W. M. Cox. who .shot and MfWfvDr. J. R. Sewell, prominent At lanta phyaioian, September 20, 1910. the day of the shooting Cox hoe not apoken a word. His silence ■hrowis a mvotary• It probably will ntrmrr be known what moved him to kill the popular, competent phy 8 ^*** that Dr. Sewell was, nor what was the-power that ca/uoed him to turn the fattfl revolver on hlmeehf and send a >xUlct through hi a own head. The record of the tragedy is cloned, in spite of the fiu* that the prime actor still 1» Itvlnp and apparently healthy in body. Cox Was Never Tried. mown was made to try Cox for b^<rtroe Thought to be dying from themself-Inflicted wound, he wo* found at the aide of his victim, and was tflkkm ttnmediately to a hospital. Day after day he lingered, near to death, untfl the danger passed. But as his wound healed, it was apparent that his bunin was crippled. The bullet evidently had shattered a nerve that controlled Cox's power of speech, and had made him harmlessly insane. Phygfclan* who Waited him and who investigated his case were never in doubt that h1s mind was hopelessly impatn*d. So, recovered fnom his wound, he was taken to Milledgr^ville. whore he has been since. There was not the formality of a criminal hearing on the murder charge, and Cox is most likely one of the few living persons known to have committed the gravest crime against a fellow-man and yet never trlod for that crime. At the Milledgeville asylum authori ties say that Cox is in a state of bodily health of an excellence that has not been his for many years. But | his mind Is broken irreparably ami i his power of speech is gone. Three years ago Cox, a cadaverous, weak-minded young man of AusUil, Oa., was a j*atlent of Dr. Sewell, and every day he visited the physician’s office at Whitehall and Mitchell Street#. He seemed devoted, without reservation, without question, after the doting manner of an animal, to the kindly man who was treating him. His h+talth had been seriously Im- pnirprl and he was a physical wreck. Treatment wos tedious and rosults wore slow. There wero times whon fits of despondency came over the young man and he seemed demented. Early In the afternoon of Septem ber 20, 1910, he wont, as was his cus tom, to the office of his physician. Dr. He well was there alone. The mysterious element of the trag edy had then its beginning. Mon and women In the building and on the street heard the report of a revolver. Startled, those who heard It won - derqg, and then turned in the direc tion whence came the sound. Those first in the office found Dr. Sewell already dead from the assassin’s bul let. Cox lay, apparently dying, a bul let in his head, near him. The blue st eol revolver lay close to Cox’s head, still smoking. That is all anybody ever knew. W. T. Morris, office clerk of the po lice department; was one of those who heard the shot and was in the office almost before the echoes had died away. Strangely enough, he had been an intimate friend of Dr. Sewell, and the two had been boys together. He knew Cox, too. Many persons knew Cox by sight, for the pale, emaciated young man had for months before the shooting shambled day after day through the streets of Atlanta, a pitiable, striking figure. Bullet Robbed His Mind. The physicians who attended watched him closely, when, to their surprise, the bullet wound In his head did not prove fatal. At first they thought his silence and attitude a sham, hut later it dawned on them that Cox’s mind was gone. Thus was the end of Dr. Sewell, and, for all purposes of the world, of W. M. Cox also. 1a>kh1 papers, tell ing of his Indictment by the Grand Jury on the charge of murder, still are on record, as if awaiting a trial- that will never be held in this world. Instead of a trial, there was a quiet, formal hearing before the Fulton County Ordinary, and a decree that sent Cox to the asylum, where he is to-day. He is no longer a cadaverous wreck. There is color in his cheeks. There are many year# of life before him, evidently, hut he will never be heard in the courts. And yet he killed a fellow-man, rpost likely with pre meditation and with a purpose. Still living, he keep# alive a mys tery. What was his motive? Did Dr, Sewell, smiling encourage ment to the despondent young man, witness the impulsive draw of a pis tol and feel a bullet crash into his brain? Did a sudden pain come to the young nmn in the course of the doc tor’s treatment,"to anger him? Was there a fit of hopelessness that drove him to frehzied bitterness against the physician who could not cure him fast enough? Why? The question must be unan swered, though the murderer lives. KEEP I BRIDE American Puts Half Score of Australians Who Tackle Him to Flight. SAN FRANCISCO. May 31.—Charles H. La due. American cowboy and wild west performer, who sailed for Aus tralia a few months ago alone and carefree, returned to the domain of Uncle Sam on the steamship Tahiti yesterday with a bride, for whom he fought a gallant battle against great odds before the Vessel steamed from Wellington. Ladue went to Australia to fill a contract for the Wirth circus, and before long succumbed to the charms of Miss Phyllis Wirth, daughter of the circus owner. She reciprocated and they agreed to be married. Papa Wirth and Mama Wirth objected, but despite this obstacle the girl ac companied Ladue to the parson after the bans had been properly published. Officers on Trail. Mr. and Mrs. Wirth put the officers of the law upon the newly-weds’ trail and attempted to take the bride away from the cowboy husband. Four lawyers, four detectives and two policemen boarded the Tahiti at Wellington and demanded that Ladue surrender his bride. Ladue refused and intimated that he was prepared to fight for posses sion of his wife if necessary. “We are many and you are only one, even If you are an American cowboy,’’ blustered one of the detec tives. “That may be,’’ retorted the Ameri can. “but if you want any trouble you will please remember that the odds really don’t amount to anything because I can shpot ten times as fast as any of you.” One of the enemy began to per spire, and he reached into his hip pocket to procure a bit of linen with which to wipe h1s glistening brow. Hostilities Commenoe. To Ladue this meant that hostilities were about to commence. So he also reached toward his hip. Now each of the brave ten had seen Ladue shoot little glass balls while riding a wild bronco. Four lawyers, four detectives and the two policemen hastened to the gangplank which was crowded. In their haste half of them seized a rope rind slid down to the dock, hand over hand. “Bah!" exclaimed the father of the bride when he saw his men’s sudden retreat. “I guess the boy is all right after all. I like his nerve anyhow, don’t you, mama?” Evidently mama did. Just before the gangplank was pulled ashore the parents came on board and agreed to forgive and forget, it being agreed that after a honeymoon through the United States, the couple are to re turn and the son-in-law is to take an interest in the show. TUBE GOWNS Bathing of One and Lacing of the Other Cause Girls to Form a Union. Eskimo Lad Studies For the Love of a Girl Native Teacher Refused Him Once for His Ignorance, so Boy Works Way Through School, CHICAGO, May 31—Elsie, you must give Pom Pom his bath this afternoon,” said a South Side society matron to her maid. The maid, her arms aching from the fastening of myriad hooks in milady’s gown, rebelled. As a result of the order and the mutiny, the maids in residences along the boulevards where oet dogs and complicated gowns abound have or ganized for offense and defense. They have formed a union and will apply to the Household Workers for a char ter as an affiliated body. Protest against too much dog clean ing has been growing in the fashion able homes. The climax came with the “defy” of Elise, and the battle cry of the maid** has resounded from Jackson Park to Lake Forest. Here after. if the maids triumph, toy dogs will go to the dry cleanser or re main among the small unwashed. Added to the dog bath woes of the maids are others against which re bellion has been declared. One of these is the hooking of gowns. Many cases of “lacer’s arm” haa been found among the maids, corresponding somewhat to the "house-maid’s knee” which for many years has afflicted scrubbers. They say that the newest disease is caused by the operation of placing a 250-pound woman inside of the new “tube” gowns, designated for a 120- pound filler. The symptoms are a swelling of the muscles of the upper part of the arm, near the shoulder, followed by lame ness. In their demands for a union the maids do not say whether they wish to regulate the size of the women or the size of the gowns. Late hours and the ill humor which often follows Is another cause of com plaint. The maids say they are re quired to stay up late at night to wait for the return of their mistresses and are forced to bear the ill humor which follows an overheard criticism of a gown or an over-abundance of lobster. SEATTLE. May 31.—Paul Patko- tak. an eighteen-year-old Eskimo, sailed for Point Barrow, the Arctic extremity of Alaska, on May 22 on the schooner Transit to claim the hand of Miss Alice Ahlook. native teacher in the Point Barrow Government school, who refused to marry him three years ago because of his lack of education. When he was rejected by Miss Ah look the youth trapped enough Arctic foxes to pay for a year’s schooling and worked his passage to Seattle. Here he was permitted to enter one Of the grammar schools bOOSUSS of the knowledge he had gained at the Point Barrow school. His summer vacations were spent with a fishing fleet. During the last year he has learned shorthand, typewrtting and bookkeeping in addition to his other studies. Patkotak came south, clad in furs. He will return smartly dressed in American clothing. Octogenarian, but Writes Poem a Day Michigan Woman Ha* Written Set of Verses Every Twenty-Four Hours for Twenty Years. BATTLE CREEK. MICH., May 31. Michigan's oldest woman poet is Mrs. Boring P. Wilcox. 85, of this city. Loring P. Wilcox and his wife were married in Leonidas, St. Joseph County, March 21, 1852. Both the silver and golden wed- wing anniversaries of the pioneers were celebrated in Sherwood, Mich., where they once resided. For 20 years Mrs. Wilcox, who, be fore her marriage was a school teach er, was an active newspaper woman, and her poetry has been well re^ ceived. For 20 years she has written a poem each day. Hungarian Conscripted for Army Makes His Flight to America in Bass Violin. CANTON, O., May 31.—Peter Cocan, 36 yetffs old, was literally carried away by music. He reached Canton to-day from Lisza, Hungary, after crossing the Hungarian border in a huge bass viol on the back of a huslcy Roumanian disguised as a gypsy mu sician. Cocan brought first-hand stories of the warlike preparation of Austria- Hungary for hostilities with Monte negro. He was himself drafted to serve in the army. He was just about to leave for America. He did not want to serve. Each time he at tempted to cross the border he was turned back by Hungarian soldiers who patrol the frontier. Determined to come to Canton at all hazards, he hit «pon the plan of concealing himself in the bass viol. A companion concealed himself in a bass drum. Friends disguised as itinerant musicians carried them over the frontier. At one time they were stopped by a party of soldiers, who compelled the musicians to play upon the Instru ments in which Cocan and his com panion were concealed. They escaped detection at this time, and after crossing the border they walked sev eral miles to a railroad. SLOW ROUND TRIP RATE TO BALTI MORE VIA SEA BOARD, $20.85 from Atlanta, correspond- ! ingly low rates from other points. on sale June 5, 6, 7. Through ; trains, electric-lighted steel sleep ing and dining cars, observation ; cars. City Ticket Office, 88 Peach tree. LIVER TROUBLES CURED WITH DR. VERDIER’S LIVER EASE Dr. Verdier’s Liver Ease, a Purely Vegetable and Perfectly Harmless Medicine, Has Cured Hundreds of Cases of Liver Troubles Even Better Than Calomel. Have you that tired feeling so common at this season? Or is It a cold In your head? These and many other symptoms are due to a sluggish liver. Why not assist nature in working off this* excess of bile acid that may cause severe sickness if allowed to go unnoticed. Dr. Verdier’s Liver Ease is the remedy. Get a bottle at your drug store for 50 cents, and take a dose just as you ,go to bed to-night. You will be so much better by to morrow' that you will appreciate taking this advice, and you can best thank us by telling your friends about it. We guarantee Dr. Verdier’s Liver Ease to do the work even hotter than calomel, without the irrita tion and bad after effects you know so well to accompany that drug. Fifty cents in stamps sent to Liver Ease Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga., will bring you a bottle promptly if you are unable to find it in your town. Refuse all substitutes. There is nothing like Liver Ease. Put up in a pink package. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. THINK o! the location. THINK ot the conveniences. THINK ot the low interest rate. THINK ot the income they are now earn ing; also the help this will be to you. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. 6 UP-TO-DATE HOMES AND 19 BEADY-TO-BUILP-ON LOTS Saturday, June 7, 1913, ST.?..?;”; These are 5 and 6 room houses, with every city convenience and connection, including furnace in several of the houses, but no gas as yet. These houses were built of the best material, under the personal direction of Col. I. N. Ragsdale, who could not be in duced to build a shoddy house. These houses are real city homes, located in the social center of the Tenth Ward, and only a step from the best car service in Atlanta. We urge you to go out and inspect this property. Each house will be plainly placarded, showing cash payment and monthly payments; also the amount oT the loan to be assumed.. THESE HOUSES ARE NOW RENTED, and bring in from $18.50 to $30.00 per month. Think of what a help that will be to you, in meeting your payments, should you not be ready to occupy the house. The houses and lots front on the following streets: Arlington Avenue, Princess Avenue, and LaRosa Terrace. Arlington Avenue runs off of Lee Street right at Col. Ragsdale's handsome home. Princess Avenue runs off of Avon (Oak land) Avenue, between the Baptist church and Capt. E. P. Ryan’s fine home; giving the property two approaches, each of which is a prominent street. This Section Has No Objectionable Feature It is logically the place for the people to live in who are engaged in business, or who are employed among the many indus trial and manufacturing and railroad enterprises around the Terminal Station, Whitehall Street, Mitchell Street, and the Central and West Point railroads, and the adjacent territory. The car service and the way the streets run prove these statements to be true. Think about it, and you’ll see it as we do. The Lots Are Ready to Build On These are the lots to buy, either for home sites or for speculation, because they are ready to build on. In addition to this, every lot is a beauty, with nice young oak shade trees scattered over them. Also, because their location is excellent. They are only a short distance from the business center of Oakland City. Only 2 blocks from the City School and near the churches, and the farthest lot is only 2 blocks from the car line, and best of all, they are socially in the swum, and ALL CITY IMPROVEMENTS DOWN AND PAID FOR THE TERMS ON THE HOUSES will range from $150 to $250 cash, and the payments will range from $22.50 per month to $32.50 per month, with 6 per cent simple interest. Small loans on 5 of the houses, to be assumed by the purchaser. THE TERMS ON THE LOTS are right. Every lot will be sold on terms of $50.00 cash, and the balance $15.00 per month, with only 6 per cent simple interest on the deferred payments. HCW TO GET THERE:—Take cars at the corner of Forsyth and Alabama Streets, marked “East Point,” “Hapeville” or “College Park.' Get off at the corner of Avon (Oakland) Avenue. You will then be only a step from this property. COME AND BE SURE TO BUY—You will never regret it if you do, and you will be sorry if you don’t. Get plans from TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. THINK ot the splendid car service. THINK of the steady growth of this section. THINK of the Easy Terms; then make up your mind to come out and buy either a home or a vacant lot, or both. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. A gents. 11 EDGEWOOD AVENUE J. W. FERGUSON & SON, Auctioneers