obit: Mrs. C. B. COOK d. 1925
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obit: Mrs. C. B. COOK d. 1925
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Surnames: cook, underwood,
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Dysart Reporter
10 September 1925
VINTON LADY MURDERED MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN
Mrs. C.B. COOK, well known Vinton resident was shot and killed in her home there about ten o’clock Monday night of this week. The shot was fired by some unknown person from outside the house, the bullet going through the window striking the lady in the arm and entering her body just below her heart. Her mother, Mrs. E. UNDERWOOD, was upstairs, heard the shot and her daughter’s screams and rushed to her assistance, but Mrs. COOK passed away about an hour later without being able to give any information that would enlighten the officials.
Mrs. COOK was president of the Benton County W.C.T.U. and had been very active in the organization. She had been prominent in anti-liquor activities and it has been suggested that the fatal shot was probably fired by a bootlegger or rum runner. Clifford B. COOK, the husband who had been in Sioux City, arrived in Vinton Tuesday afternoon and is grief stricken over the tragedy. Mrs. COOK was about 49 years of age.
A corner’s inquest was held Tuesday and Wednesday, but details have not been made public. The State is not offering a $500 reward, and state officials have arrived at Vinton, and are assisting the local authorities in their search for the murderer. This is one of the most astrociuos [atrocious] crimes in the history of this section of the state, and if the murderer is captured he should be given the limit and then some if necessary.
Dysart Reporter
10 September 1925
VINTON LADY MURDERED MONDAY NIGHT AT TEN
Mrs. C.B. COOK, well known Vinton resident was shot and killed in her home there about ten o’clock Monday night of this week. The shot was fired by some unknown person from outside the house, the bullet going through the window striking the lady in the arm and entering her body just below her heart. Her mother, Mrs. E. UNDERWOOD, was upstairs, heard the shot and her daughter’s screams and rushed to her assistance, but Mrs. COOK passed away about an hour later without being able to give any information that would enlighten the officials.
Mrs. COOK was president of the Benton County W.C.T.U. and had been very active in the organization. She had been prominent in anti-liquor activities and it has been suggested that the fatal shot was probably fired by a bootlegger or rum runner. Clifford B. COOK, the husband who had been in Sioux City, arrived in Vinton Tuesday afternoon and is grief stricken over the tragedy. Mrs. COOK was about 49 years of age.
A corner’s inquest was held Tuesday and Wednesday, but details have not been made public. The State is not offering a $500 reward, and state officials have arrived at Vinton, and are assisting the local authorities in their search for the murderer. This is one of the most astrociuos [atrocious] crimes in the history of this section of the state, and if the murderer is captured he should be given the limit and then some if necessary.