Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — MULLENDORE CHARGE IS FIRST DEGREE MURDER [ARTICLE]

MULLENDORE CHARGE IS FIRST DEGREE MURDER

Tippecanoe County Man Who Killed Grover Cleveland Cook Christmas Night to Be Tried.

Tippecanoe county is to have a sensational murder trial -when Riley aiullenodre is tried on the first degree murder charge returned by the grand jury for kill-

ing Grover Cleveland Cook. A ■brief account of the murder was contained in this paper at the time. Mrs. Sue Mullendore lives between Lafayette and Delphi, almost on the county line. Cook worked for her and her sob, Ferris. He was a good worker. On Christmas night Riley Mullendore went to the home of his mother and according to witnesses who testified before the grand jury, without provocation, heat. Cook over the head with the butt end of a revolver. Cook was taken to St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette, where he died the next day. His head was beaten to a pulp and had swollen to twice its normal size. The case will soon come up for trial at Lafayette.