Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-01-01 | Page 1 | Bomb Wired to Auto Kills N. C. Teacher

I I Bomb Wired to Auto Kills N. N C. C Teacher MT l AIRY N. N C C. Jan 1 l UP UP- UP An agriculture teacher who had no enemies died Monday night after a bomb wired to the ignition ignition igni igni- tion system of his truck exploded as he started the vehicle Who Vho could have done this moaned Wiliam Viliam Henry Cochrane Jr 24 just before he lost con con- We Ve didn't have an enemy sobbed the pretty girl Cochrane married last August He died in a hospital 13 hours after the blast tore off one of his legs and mangled the other one His students at Surry County's White Plains School went to the to offer their blood for transfusions but Cochrane had suffered too much from shock and loss of blood to respond to treatment Police Chief Monte 1 Boone and State Bureau of Investigation agents examined the wreckage of the truck hoping to find some clue to the killer It lIt certainly was no prank Boone said It was deliberate murder The rhe truck was blown up when Cochrane a graduate of North Carolina State College stepped on the starter to go to his school An ambulance attendant who found Cochrane some 20 feet from the wrecked truck pulled a sheet over his face Cochrane pulled the sheet awa away Im ulm not dead yet he said Boone said the explosive apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap was placed under the drivers driver's seat of the truck sometime sometime sometime some some- time over the week end and wired to the ignition