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Show A BRUTaTaFFAIR. A Mother and Daughter Waylaid Way-laid and Outraged. Tlie Husband Hears the Screams of His Wife and oa Viewing- Her Lifeless Body Drops Iead. Kanuy Hill, N. Y., August 13. This whole region is in a turmoil of excitement excite-ment over an assault committed on Saturday wight by two negroes upon Mrs. Mary Cook, and daughter, the wife and child of a Justice of the Peace of Vt elton, a village across the Hudson, and the sudden death of Justice Cook resulting from t he horrible crime. Jus- lice Cook was a well-to-do farmer of Wei tn. about 4r) years of age. On Sunday, Mrs. Cook and daughter drove to Doe's corners for household supplies. They vere expected buck at 8 p. m. About that hour Justice Cook, while talking .. itli two neighbors in his yard, noticed t wo negroes driving past in a buggy. Sodn afterwards the trio were 6tai tied by a woman's scream, repeated again and again. "My God!" said Mr. Cook, "that's my Mary's voice. 1 must go to her help." The three men ran up the road, and half a mile from the house they found Mr. Cook's team and vehicle empty. The negroes were seen to enter the buggy and drive away. Mr. Cook called for his wife and "daughter frantically, fran-tically, but no responses came. Then search was made and evidences of a struggle were found by a ditch. A little further on, Mr. Cook stumbled against the insensible body of Mrs. Cook. She was carried into the road, and although alive, was unable to speak a word. Her clothing was torn from her bodv, and everything indicated indi-cated that she had been iiltreafed in i an inhuman manner. The sight was more than the husband could stand. "Boys, 1 can't see it," lie exclaimed, and fell to the ground a corpse. The bodies of Mr. Cook and his wife were put on the wagon and taken to the homestead. By this time there were no tidings of the daughter, a girl of Hi, and a partv start ed to search for her with lanterns. In less than an hour they returned with the girl, who was almost bereft of her senses. She was lound hidmg in the woods, and from her was learned the story of the outrage. AVben the negroes met the women in the road they stopped, a-d one of them eiezed the horse driven by the women, wnile the other dragged Mrs. Cook from the wagon. Miss Carrie dealt the miscreant a blow in the face with an uuibrella. Then the fellow who had held the horses attacked the girl, but the contest was unequal. To save h el-sell' el-sell' from a fate worse than de.ath, the. girl rushed wildly through the under-, under-, ,. , brush, the negixj pursuing her, o?' ?he '.Mm " ' Jiirf ii-o 1 i'in" i.ar.'W qpyn.iniOTh, ft "uei" I later. Her clothing was nearly rfll torn from her, and she was more deftd than alive when found. The enki of the Saratoga police arrested the men at this pi-ice and jailed them. Later they I were taken to Saratoga. -V I At last reports Mrs. Cook was in a I precarious condition, and an able to I speak. |