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Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) - August 18, 1952
30-Year-Old Man Confesses Hammer Slaying In Chicago
CHICAGO (UP) - Junior Cox, confessed hammer killer who taunted police with telephone threats to strike again, frightened another slaying suspect nearly out of his wits when police threw both men in the same cell.
Milton Phillips, husky truck driver arrest here in connection with the butcher-knife slaying of his bride in Indianaolis, June 19, spent Saturday night in a cell with the claw-hammer killer. "I didn't dare sleep - I was afraid he would bash my head in with a shoe," the 51-year-old Indianapolis man said. "I'd never want to spend another night in a cell with a guy like him." Phillips didn't have to. He was taken to Indianapolis for investigation into his wife's death and he actually seemed relieved.Cox, who bludgeoned a man to death with a claw hammer and then threatened to invade swan, Chicago hotels in his quest for blood, was captured Saturday at a YMCA. He had been the object of an intensive 10-day manhunt. All of Chicago's more then 7,000 policemen were alerted to be on the lookout for the man, and guards were stationed to protect the Edgewater Beach and Drake hotels, two of the city's finest and most expensive.
"It's a good thing you caught me - I was going to kill another man soon," Cox boasted when detectives arrested him. The 30-year-old slayer said he was from Logan, W. Va., and revealed he had received psychiatric treatment at two hospitals. "The doctors couldn't help me," he said. Cox said he killed his hotel roommate, Thomas Acton, 35, because the Birmingham, Ala. man "kept bragging about how tough he was."
Acton's body was found when the hammer killer telephoned police, gave the room number and told them: "If you go there you will find something bloody". He said he was planning to kill a man in Calumet City, Ill., when detectives James Cooley and Lloyd Sands arrested him. Police said he admitted he was a homosexual, and said they believed his "urge to kill" came during periods of remorse of sex acts.
Stars and Stripes Newspaper (Pacific Editions) - August 19, 1952
Claw Hammer Murderer Scares Fellow Prisoner
CHICAGO (UP) - Junior Cox, confessed hammer killer who taunted police with telephone threats to strike again, frightened another slaying suspect nearly out of his wits when police threw both men in the same cell. Milton Phillips, a husky truck driver who was arrested here in connection with the butcher knife slaying of his bride in Indianapolis, Ind., June 19, spent Saturday night in a cell with the claw hammer killer.
"I didn't dare sleep - I was afraid he would bash my head in with a shoe," the 51-year old Indianapolis man said. "I'd never want to spend another night in a cell with a guy like him." Phillips didn't have to. He was taken back to Indianapolis for investigation into his wife's death and he actually seemed relieved.
Cox, who bludgeoned a man to death with a claw hammer and then threatened to invade swank Chicago hotels in his quest for blood, was captured Saturday at a YMCA. He had been the object of an intensive ten-day manhunt. All of Chicago's more than 7000 policeman were alerted to be on the lookout for the man, and guards were stationed to protect the Edgewater beach and Drake hotels, two of the city's finest and most expensive.
"It's a good thing you caught me - I was going to kill another man soon," Cox boasted when detectives arrest him. The 30-year old slayer said he was from Logan, W. Va., and revealed that he had received psychiatric treatment at two hospitals. "The doctors couldn't help me," he said.
Cox said he killed a hotel roommate, Thomas Acton, 35, because the Birmingham, Ala., man "kept bragging about how touch he was." Cox said he served two years with the Army in the Pacific during World War II and received mental treatment at Theron general hospital in Tennessee and at Vaughan general hospital in suburban Maywood. Police said he admitted he was a homosexual, and said they believed his "urge to kill" came during periods of remorse after sex acts.
