Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Cox Ambushed in Patrick Co. September 7, 1922
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The News Leader, Richmond, VA September 7, 1922
                      Killing of one of Trio Indicted for Slaying of 
                     Martinsville Constable Sensation of Recent Years

 The killing of Ewell Cox in Patrick County, Va. briefly reported in lata 
editions yesterday is the most sensational news out of that mountain region in 
years. Cox lived near Martinsville and maintained extreme independence of 
conduct and life. 

With others, he was indicted for the murder of Constable Hughes Mitchell of 
Martinsville, last May, but was admitted to bail and thus was a free man at the 
time he met his own death. Walter Holder, indicted for the same killing escaped 
from jail and still is at liberty. E. B. Brown, a negro, the third of those 
indicted was never caught. With the death now of Cox, none of the three men held 
accountable for the slaying of Constable Mitchell will come to trial unless one 
or both of the men at large are captured. 

Cox was waylaid at Fayerdale, Patrick county, early Tuesday morning by three 
negroes, it is believed, participating in the ambush attack. One shot struck Cox 
and laid him low, though he did not die until some time after he had been 
removed to the hospital at Martinsville. 

After receiving his mortal wound, Cox killed one of the trio who had attacked 
him. Cox made no statement before he died, being in a state of coma from the 
time he was picked from the ground to be removed to the hospital. Bootlegging on 
a wholesale scale has been notoriously carried on in the neighborhood of 
Martinsville, and feuds have grown out of the relations of men engaged in the 
illicit traffic and many of their neighbors, who resented high-handed acts and 
the spirit of terrorism that prevailed.

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