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Scene of Ogden Slayings Two of murderersmurderer's victims were shot as they rushed tothis door of back sleeping porch of their home at 2240 Lincoln avenue The victims wereMrs Jane Stauffer and Mrs ElizaElixa Weeks Burton Bert Stauffer was critically hurt

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Defiant Mass Killer ProfessesProfesses HatredtI

For All Officers After CaptureBelieved Brooding Over Recent Divorce

By Clarence Williams Telegram Staff WriterriterOGDENOLDEN Utah July 24Defiant24Defiant and professing pro-

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Other Murder Stories and Pictures on Pages 3 and 8tI

killer of five Ogden residents including a district courtjudge sat in his cell in Ogden city jail Saturday awaitingfiling of firstdegree murder charges against him Monday

The tall gaunt gunman police said ran amuck late Fri-day

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dayevening wwantonly slayinglaying five ppersons PPoliceice saidaid thekiller was believed t have gonegon over-a

overa divorce granted his wife by the judge

When reporters accompanied by police officers walkedinto his cell Saturday morning Cox declined to discuss hisbrief but wild career of crime

Get the hell out of here he shouted He sullenlydropped back on his cell cot mumbling I dontdon't give a damnabout anything but to get this thing over

Chief of Police Rial CC. Moore said charges would be filedMonday in the greatest mass murder in Utah crime recordsNot since Paschal L.L Boyer a meat buyer killed four persons i

in Davis county in 1933 have police been confronted with d

such an orgy of deathThe deadleadDistrict Judge LeuLewisis V.V Trueman 53 15431513 TwentyseventhstreetMrs1 James BurtonDurton Stauffer 28 2240 Lincoln avenueMrs Eliza Weeks Burton 60GO IrwinInvin Idaho who was vis-

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her daughterlaughter Mrs1 StaufferMrs BessieBessle Blakeley Brooks 28 2238 Lincoln avenue a next-next

door neighbor of MrsSam Nelson 49 Harrison boulevardAlso shot by the crazed gunman and not expected to liveJive

is Mrs Stauffer's husband Theodore Stauffer 35 Criticallywounded is F.F Dale Brooks 32 husband of Mrs BrooksWalks Into Police Station While HuntBunt Is On

The gunman Austin Cox Jr 38 West Wilson laneI was overpowered when he appeared at police headquarters givingan ironical twist to the gruesome crime He came into the stationwhile police were conducting a widespread manhunt for him

Cox admitted the slayings and appealed to Ogden policepolice-totoo execute him immediately

CoxsCox's wife Mrs Wanda Mae Carter Cox recently was granteda divorce by Judge Trueman records show on the grounds ofcruelty in which the complaint charged the defendant had onceattempted to tear out his wife's tongueHad Served Jail Term Following Divorce

Ogden police reported Cox also had been sentencedd afterthehe divorce to a jailfail term for attempting to do bodily harm toto-

lishislis former wife who recently gave birth to a child by him atPorterville Morgan county several miles east of Ogden Shewas still there Saturday morning police said

Sheriff John R.R Watson of Weber county said Saturday S

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1J.JLInIN reconstructing the weirdhidb odyiyy chain of events on CoxsCox's

dIesr ri mile rampage of killing po-

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fenen he placed a phone call to aar-

endwendrend who told him his formerwife could be located at 2240 Lin-do

Lin-Lindo avenue the home of thethe-

tt duffersBuffersen-en1 Grabbing a8 shotgun Cox en-ent trtoedfed his shabby nondescript au-

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t1 nobile and rode to the door ofIt e small cottage

VI Alighting from his car Cox ap-apc jached the cottage police saidttt tabout 11it pp. mm. Apparentlyty stood undecided for a momentNI thenjnien furtively walked around to

e back porch which is glass e-nt

en-ent ed Mrs Burton and Mrst1 uffersuffer heard the sound of his

tt4 WhenNhen Mrs Burton called outI

rho1 is there Cox cut looseI hi the gauge12 shotgun the

rr No 4 pellets crashingtough the glass and killing he-

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t tyJjAi Mrs Stauffer ran to her

ut11 Jt ther's aid Cox again fired of-ofN goers said Mrs Stauffer spunspun-kttk jundund and fell to the floor deadto1 band TailsFalls Next

HerBer husband BertBert next fell-

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Beverly Jane Stauffer 4 daugh-daughdaugh-daughdaughte-rteri of the slain pair also was ononi-

etheie porch

TheITheThe terrified girl bewildered bybyt-

het the shots and spattered witht blood crawled under the washingi machine on the porchli Cox did not see her a fact5 which may have saved her life

She remained under theImac-

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5 laclerl until Police Lieutenant E.E L.LI ShawShaw and Police Chauffeur FredFred-

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dIIillM Gill arrarriveded to make a formalInvestigation Numb with fearsheBhe was taken to the home ofrelatives Mr and Mrs J.J BertDanaIDana 1610 Kiesel avenue

Meantime the shots hadi unused the neighborhoodllanamiJir and Mrs Brooks who live

RutttextIt door were first on the sceneMr Brooks an of Og-OgOgd-

endendea arsenal at Sunset said he andand-InrhiIn wifeife heard the shots and gotoutcut of bedIkIII wentent to the porch of theStauffer home and Mrs Brooks

Btstartedslatted across to the Harris homeWhen she was partway there thekiller came around the back of theStauffer home

Hee saw Mrs Brooks the husl-and

hus-huslandtand said

said to her Ir guess youantrant it tooThen the fiend shot her the

charge passing through her chestIranTianran overo and he let me have itittoo I was lucky I guess I onlygot It In the hand Mr Brookssaidlaid

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hospihospi-taltatI Cox then turned his attentionto the Stauffer residence and dedet-

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his wife wasvas not therepolice said He then strode acrossthe small courtyard meeting Mrpoison who had been visiting rela-rela

I tirestees at the rear of Twenty-Twentysecond street adjacent to theStauffer home

Mr Nelson his wife mother andLiuttertillerer were visiting at the home

o brother Theodore TedNelson at Twenty-secondTwentyStreetfeet the lot of which borders theStauffer property As membersofoPhethe family related Mr Nelsonheard the shots in the near vicinI-ty

vicini-ty vicin-vicinItyty and commented It sounds asii somebody is celebrating LetsLet'sLets-gogofo out

tp fr Nelson started out the reardoorfloor but the women urged himto staytay In Lets go out and enJ-oy

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enj-oy en-enJoy it he protestedIEMrMr Nelson stepped out the reardoorr Seeing the killer and stillBelieving that it was a holidaycelebration he said Why dontdon'tyyouU celebrate over hereBoughtthought Killer Jesting

INelsonelson police said asked CoxIshIs this the fireworksfireworks'

f YesYes this Is the fireworks CoxWasas said to have replied HowWould you like a little of ititt Sure officers said Mr Nelsont thinking Coxijng was jest-jest

Cox then shot and killed himextnext to have contact with thethel-

er the-rkillerlerr wasas Mrs Sam Harris 2242

ih avenue I heard severalfSshotsota I and went out to Investigatesahee told a Salt Lake TelegramreporterPorter

isII saw this man and said Whathappening to Mrs Staufferand he isaid Are there any moreof you

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foundArOund here11I Jumped through the doorsadsaidi

closeddosed it fastfast Mrs Harris

Droveee tto JudgesJudge's HometThee decoderanged slayer then ranmhis autautomobilemobile and drove ap-

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JUdge Trueman veteran Utahat 1543 Twenty-seventhTwentybeetair j

rtthee rear police said CoxCox ran toto-

ofrear of one of his victimsvictims'lm This time without pre-pre

he fired throughtrough thethe-bebeearin window Judge Truemanbeded

the shot climbeded out ofto telePhoneds telephonedi

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Trueman also was awak-e awakawak-Y the shot at the kitchenOnlymyY half-dressedhalffla Judge True-

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Tore1 than six feet tall JudgeJudge-niemanernann then called to hi fromhit himmm-Ui

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ballyallybally but prepressedsed the triggerThe gun trained on the silhouettespedped the shot into the judgesjudge's faceForceTorce of the pellets caught himbetween the eyes Death was in-

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police saidMrs Trueman was found by po-

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liceIce holding the body of her hus-band

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hus-husbandand who had slumped to thefloorloor Mrs Trueman griefgrief-stricken and sobbing told policeshehe walked behind her husband tothehe window The judge she saidtoldold Cox to get off the lawn asplitplit second before the shotsmashedmashed into his head

Directly after the fatal secondshothotshot Dr Frank K Bartlett 2703Hill drive saw a shabby car beingdrivenriven slowly down Twenty-sev-Twentynth street toward the city fromththehe direction of the Trueman home

Dr Bartlett told officers hecould see Cox in the car a de-

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given at police head-quarters

head-quarters

head-quarters

headhead-quarters later corroborating hisstatement It was the descriptionoff the car and the license numberoff the machine which gave policefirst tangible evidence as to theidentity of the berserk killerOrganize Search

City police sheriffssheriff's officersstatetate highway patrolmen and mili-tary

mili-tary

mili-militaryary police then joined in an or-

ganizedor-or

search for the slayerAll highways leading out of Og-

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denen were barricaded and peace of-

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prowled the streets withguns drawn

Cox however eluded them andand-rovedroverove into the centerc of Ogden

business district He parked hismachine at the rear of the policestationtation in the city and countybuilding and marched into thebuilding his shotgun still in hishandslands

He poked open the door of themainmam police office containing thedeskdeskesk sergeantssergeant's cage Directlyaheadhead is another office used byPolice Captain Clifford K Keeter

There were a group of city offi-cials in that office Near the doorbutut with his back turned to theslayerlayer was Officer Gill The officerjust happened to turn aroundandnd saw Cox framed in the firstdoorway the shotgun in his hand

Gill slammed the door and yelledyelled-There Is a guy out there with ashotgun

At that moment two state high-way

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high-way

highhigh-way patrolmen Merlin C.C Brownand Kim Ward were walking downthehe hall and approaching anotherdoor which leads off from the east

In the desk sergeantssergeant's officewere Lieutenant John CC. Smithassistant provost marshal for theOgden area and Sergeant FrankSchneider of the military policeThey were standing at the cageoccupied by Desk Sergeant J.J E.EWiggins who was telephoning

Cox surveyed the group andstarted to raise his shotgun whenLieutenant Smith lunged at him

The gun roared but the lieuten-ant

lieuten-ant

lieuten-ant

lieutenlieuten-ant was able to push up the barrelone of the pellets striking him In-

theinin-

thethehe ear The pellets penetrated aglassflass door chipped wooden frame-work

frame-work

frame-work

frameframe-work over a door and then lodgedInn the plasterplaste of the ceilingFierce Fight

A scuffle ensued and severalpersons rushed into the meleeoverpowering Cox It took severalminutes of fierce fighting to sub-

duesub-

duesubsub-

due the man but once he lost hishis-

gunhis-

gungun the fight went out of himpolice said

BeBeatenten with blood drippingfrom his facefaceCoxCox pleaded thatthe officers execute him immedi-ately

immedi-ately

immediImmedi-it was reported

Incoherent and unable to replyto questions he was taken underheavy guard to a cell

He showedsnowed no resistance policesaid only he wantedjustice wanted to be executedasis soon as possible

Police saidlaid after a few momentsIn which he appeared to calmdown he spoke a complete sen-

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tenceJust take me out and shoot

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me dontdon'taskdontask mememenyanyny questions Iwish you could get this shootingover in five minutes

He later admitted killing JudgeTrueman but gave no exact mo-tive

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mo-tive

momo-tive beyond that he thought hegot a bum deal when the judgegranted his wife a divorce and 2525monthly allowance

Cox admitted shooting severalothersothersbutbut didn't know exactlyhow many he had killed

Chief Moore said Cox admittedheie borrowed the gun but he wouldnotlot say from whom The gun waswas-nInn excellent mechanical condition

Mrs Cox told reporters that herformer husband not only tried topullull out her tongue with a wirebutut that he beat meme-ImeI have scarsand bruises all overover my bodybodybody-and he jjusts about pulled my hhairirout he was aa mean jealous per-son

perper-son

She said she leftheft him November44 1942 and charged him with bat-tery

bat-bateryterytery an offense that drew amonthsmonth's sentence in jail She saidshe finally divorced him in Febru-ary

Febru-ary

Febru-aryary this year A sonson Neal wasborn to her in May

Mrs Cox said Cox was em-ployed

emem-ininin armed service forcesdepot Ogden at the time of theirmarriage but had quit and had notworked again during the time theylivedwed together She said he wasnot a heavy drinker

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