Thursday, April 10, 1924
THREE PERSONS KILLED
Tiny McCoy shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Hallie Totten McCoy, his mother-in-law, Mrs. William L. Totten, and his brother-in-law, Hobert Totten, at Deer Creek near Cass Sunday afternoon. He then shot himself in the forehead. The bullet ranged up, and while he has a fractured skull, it is not thought he is dangerously hurt. He made away after the shooting but was apprehended at Sitlington and held until the officers arrived.
McCoy and his wife had not been getting along well together. She had left their home at Durbin and returned to the home of her parents at Deer Creek. McCoy had been trying to get her to go back to him, and he had been forbidden to come to the Totten home.
On Sunday, he came down from Hosterman to see his wife, and found her at the home of a nearby neighbor, Laven Wolfe. Mrs. Totten and her son, Hobert, soon came over to the Wolfe home…
McCoy tried to get his wife to go away with him, which she refused to do, and there was some controversy which was quieted by Mr. Wolfe. McCoy then apparently prepared to leave, and asked Mrs. McCoy to come out of the door and bid him good-by. As she was coming out of the door McCoy shot her above above the ear with an automatic pistol, killing her instantly. Mrs. Totten then came to the door and she also was shot in the head. Hobert Totten tried to grapple him and was shot twice, one bullet making a flesh wound in his breast, and the other through the mouth. All three died almost instantly.
Mr. Wolfe and Calvin Neighbors were then on the scene and attempted to disarm McCoy, and he tried to shoot them but the weapon jammed…
McCoy made for the river. He swam it and came on down to Sitlington where he was stopped and held for the officers by Charles P. Adams and others.
Tiny McCoy is a son of William McCoy, of Keister, Greenbrier county. He is about 25 years old…
Mrs. Totten was about 45 years old. Mrs. McCoy was 21 years old, and Hobert Totten was 19…
MARLINTON HOTEL
The Marlinton Hotel Company, Inc. has let to contract the large addition to the Marlinton Hotel to A. G. Killingsworth. The contract price is $43,200.
The improvements include a thorough overhauling of the present building and an addition with two store rooms and a theatre with a seating capacity of five hundred on the first floor and sixteen bedrooms on the second and third story.
The structure will be of brick and the constructions and fittings will be modern in every particular…
Mr. Killingsworth is a Marlinton contractor and businessman.
His bid was in competition with some of the largest construction firms in this part of the country. It is a matter of not a little local pride that the town is assured of such a hotel building and that the work will be done by a townsman…
TOWN COUNCIL
Water line ordered extended to the property of Walter McMillion on Lower Camden.
Sewer line extended to W. J. Killingsworth’s tenement property occupied by Mr. Armstrong.
Town will erect a hitching post on the vacant lot below the bridge or below Harlow Waugh’s store.
Chief of Police not required to wear a uniform.
WEATHER
Local weather observer S. L. Brown gives us the following report on the weather for the month of March.
Hottest 66 degrees on the 29th; coldest, 12 degrees on the 9th and 15th. Mean temperature for the month, 36 degrees. Total rainfall was 3.65 inches. Greatest in 24 hours was 1.20 inches on the 29th. Three and a half inches of snow in the month.
