The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 01, 1905, Page 2, Image 2
A Virginia Horror.
South Carolinian's Bloody
Work?Kills a Man, his
Wife and Two Children
and then Takes His own
Miserable Life.
Glouce^er, Court House, Va..
Oct., 28.?When Ii E. Gressett
c?mo out of his home in King
and Queen county this morning
about sunrise, he was shot with ?
ritle by W. D. Coker; who had
been concealed under the high
steps. When Gressett tell he
begged Coker not to shoot again
and Mrs. Gressett. also ran om
and begged him not to shoot
again. Coker came up close to
Gressett and fired again, killing
him instantly. Coker then sent
word to officers to come to I is
home at Green wot d, as lie ha?.'
shot Gressett. .1 ut>1 as the offi
cers drove up to W. B. CokerV
house they heard a gnu fro of!
and they found Coker dead. He
had already killed his wife and
two little girls, one six and the
other nine years old, and had
laid them out. Coker came from
South Carolina about eight yea*-!?2<>.
The two men lived about
e>
two miles apart. No one knowol
any ill feeling between the
men prior to the tragedy.
Mrs. Coker was, previous to
her marriage, Miss Robbie Roy.
She wa9 a daughter' of Lieut.
Robert Roy, and a cousin of Mrs.
A J. Mnntacue, wife of Virginia's
governor. She was a beautiful
woman.
When the oflieers reached the
<.'oker home they found his dead
body silting upright in a chair.
Uts gun was lying across his
knees. The bullet had entered
the neck and ranged upward
into the brain. The wife and
Children naa ueen snot, Killed
and laid out, and coins placed
over tlieii eyes. (Joker left a
note in which lie said he killed
his tainiIy to save them from disgrace.
Mo named Grossett and
his brother us llie cause of his
trouble. The murder was com
mitted at 2 o'clock and the
bodies arranged on the lied.
Afterward he lay down beside
them and slept until day, when
he went to the Gressett. home.
A New Enterprise.
Mr. John T. Stevens, of Kershaw,
and Others, to Establish
"Wholesale and Retail
Grocery in Cheraw.
From Cheraw Citizen.
Mentors. Boykin and Shannon,
ol Camden, and Mr. John T.
elevens, 01 iversnaw, .spent Mon
day in Cheraw and while here
closed a lease for the new Laney
brick building, work on which
was begun yesterday. These
gentlemen will open up a whole
aale and retail grocery business
here January 1st, with a capital
*tock of $25,000. The building
will be 40 x 100 feet, two stories
having a basement 40 x CO feet
x 10 feet. W. R. Hancock has
the contract for the erection ol
the building.
Miss Mamie Floyd,
Who Recently Died, in Texas
?Tribute to Her Memory
by School Mates.
Mr. aud Mrs. James \V Floyd,
ormer Lancastrians now living
at Mt. Pleasant, Texas, who lost
their sixteen-year old daughter,
Miss Mamie, a few weeks ago,
havo received the following trib
ute Irorii her late school inatee:
To Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Floyd:?
What csin we do but weep with
you ? We can only guess what
this sorrow is. We know it must
tie the greatest except one, which
could come to you The dear girl,
she looked so sweet and happy
last we saw her. If you could
only see her. How be lutitul she
must, be now that she has seen
Jesus and shines in ihe light of
God. It is even more wonderiul
10 think of that great tram-itiou.
of a girl and ot a grown person
one cannot imagine, the sudden
expansion into such knowledge,
i : *
aiiu conscious joy.
We have been looking back
upon short memories of soul tri
als. Just a lew years ot groping
and stumbling, weariness anil
faint ness at heart .temptat ion and
failure, all these t. ings which we
suppose every Christian must
pass through at some time, on the
way home. The first distinct
thought which comes through the
surprise and sorrow, at tlie sacuess
was that, that dear redeem
ed girl will bo spared all this;
-he is taken home where none ol
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