Wilmington, Sept. 25—The remains of Thomas E. Cox, aged billiard player and a former manager of Starkey and Kerr’s Front street billiard parlor, who committed suicide early yesterday morning by blowing his brains out with a heavy caliber automatic at the family home at 314 Church street, were forwarded to Kinston later in the day, where the funeral services will be held today and the body laid to rest. Mr. Cox originally came from Kinston.
News of the rash act did not occasion very much surprise to the man’s friends because of the admitted turbulency of his home life. Also, it is believed that his mind had become affected and that he was not himself when he sent the bullet crashing into his brain.
Mr. Cox had lived in Greensboro for the past several weeks and had not been employed in Wilmington for some time, leaving the Starkey and Kerr establishment following trouble that he had with Judge A.G. Ricaud and which landed him in court.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Sept. 26, 1923
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