Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Bullets Cause Death of Cox September 7, 1922
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Roanoke World-News September 7, 1922
      Patrick County Man Succumbs to Effects of Wounds in Martinsville Hospital

Martinsville--Sept 6--Ewell Cox, who was brought to the hospital here yesterday 
suffering with two bullet wounds, alleged to have been inflicted by two negroes, 
died today about noon.   Cox was 36 years old.   The funeral will be from his 
home near Fayerdale.

                              Visit Scene of Shooting

  Commonwealth's Attorney J.R. Taylor, Sheriff B.F. Stultz and policeman Henry 
Meade went to the scene of the shooting yesterday afternoon to make 
investigations.  
  Cox spent the night with J.A. Adams and left yesterday morning in company with 
Edgar Vaughan in an automobile.  The road, Patrick County Road leading from the 
house, 150 yards, led into the Henry County Road almost at right angles.  It was 
here at the junction of the two roads that Cox and Vaughan met the negroes in a 
car.  Without warning, the negroes opened fire.  Cox, with his shot gun killed 
instantly the negro General Lee Scott, who was driving and probably wounded the 
other two, Harvey Smith and John Scott who have not been apprehended.
  The investigators found the cars standing just as they were left, nothing had 
been moved; not even the negro who was killed.  He was at the steering wheel of 
the car, his head and face lacerated by the shots from the shot gun.  Edgar 
Vaughan who was with Cox, could not be found yesterday and he is thought to have 
been wounded in the battle.
  The neighbors stated there were fifteen or twenty shots fired.  Sutley, one of 
the neighbors brought Cox to Martinsville Lucy Lester Hospital.   There wasn't 
much hope for him last night, but this morning his condition is more favorable.

                             Patrick County Man

  Ewell Cox was a Patrick County man.   He was very wealthy and owned a handsome 
home near Fayerdale, Patrick County.  
  It is supposed that he had a load of liquor on yesterday and the meeting with 
the negroes was a coincidence.  The negroes thought this was a good chance to 
take vengeance as Cox had shot and slightly wounded one--Harvey Smith--last 
Sunday morning after having trouble with him.   The shooting was done in the 
highway and not from ambush.
  Cox was under bond in the sum of $15,000 to appear in October court as an 
accomplice in the murder last spring of Hughes Mitchell, prohibition officer.





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