A MISSOURI TEAGEDY.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 643, 9 April 1870, Page 3

A MISSOURI TEAGEDY.

(From the Kansas City (Mo.) Neios Nov. 15.) Some weeks since the Times of this city chronicled the cold-blood murder of a man and his wife in the hours of night, by some unknown fiend in the form of a human being. The double murder was committed near Kingsville, Mo., at the residence of the victims, Mr and Mrs John Cox. For a time after the crime was noised abroad the most intense excitement prevailed in that community, and the feelings of the citizens were aroused to the highest point of revenge. Mr Dryden, a well-known citizen there, was suspected, and had to flee the wrath of an outraged community. He returned, however, was tried, and found innocent of the heinous crime imputed to; him. Time wore on. The murderer escaped, and no clue leading to his whereabouts was obtained. But following close upon the heels of all crimes comes the step of the avenger. Eight speedily has the avenger followed up the Kingsville murder and sated his ire in blood. On Saturday night a brother of the murdered Cox came upon, in a brothel, in South Western Missouri, a man around whom clustered in the minds of those who knew him many dark suspicions. A game of cards was suggested and entered into, during which the frequent libations of "poisoned" Missouri whisky were enjoyed. The whisky had a wonderful effect upon the mind of the suspected gamester, and in the heat of the conversation and spirited retort he exposed to Cox some facts which proved him the perpetrator of the terrible Kingsville murder. In an instant, without a moment's warning, Cox unsheathed a small dagger and plunged it into the bosom of the murderer of his brother and sister. The man fell upon the floor with curses .and groans, and Cox fled. The wound was a fearful one, piercing the heart and producing almost instant death. The name of the man so suddenly ushered before the tribunal of another world by Cox is Vm. C. Be vis. Bevis formerly labored on the farm for a neighbor of the murdered Cox family,, and was well acquainted with the neighborhood in which that double tragedy was committed.