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Charles W. Cox
South Bend Tribune |
The #52ancestors prompt this week is "challenge." There are a number of ways to take this prompt, but the one that stood out to me as I thought about it was that of a legal challenge. I've seen a few land disputes taken to court in my research, but no legal challenge in my research has reached the level of coverage or public interest as the 1934 case of Wanda and Maurelle Cox, two young girls who were found to have died of arsenic poisoning. Arrested and tried for their deaths were their father, Charles W. Cox, and a nurse, Nell Baker. The story was picked up by the Associated Press, giving it national coverage.
