Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — DELPHI MAN, FACING HANGING, LEAPS TO HIS DEATH. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI MAN, FACING HANGING, LEAPS TO HIS DEATH.

Rock Island, 111., June 12.—Condemned to die, Robert Cook, of Del- | phi, Ind., brother of Cleve Cook, who | was killed by Riley Mullendore in the i Indiana town several years ago, end- ] ed his life shortly before inidmght Wednesday night by leaping from the third floor of the court house had just heard the verdict of “guilty” returned by the jury, which carried with it the recommendation that he hang for murder of Cecil Nesbit, of Davenport, and Mrs. Ida Woods, proprietress of the Case of All Nations, of Rock Island. On leaving the court room in the custody of two deputy sheriffs, Cook broke away and in a headlong dive hurled himself through a third story window. When the deputies reached him he was dying, his neck having been broken by the fall. One of the deputies grabbed one of Cook’s feet as he made the fatal plunge through the window, but was unable to hang on. The murders of Nesbit and Mrs. Woods occurred in the latter’s place of business on the night of April 21.