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Autopsy Shows Sleeping Pills Kill Homer Cox. Officers Don't Find Any Sign of Drugs In Room at Motel. The strange death of Homer H. Cox, 33, Oklahoma City former GI imprisoned for more than four years by the Russians, became even more complicated Saturday when an autopsy report showed Cox died of an overdose of sleeping pills. No drugs or containers for the pills were found in the Lawton motel where Cox was found Monday, and no explanation could be given by officers as tv whether Cox had been drugged or willingly took the pills. Cox's attending physician re-ported the autopsy showed evidence of enough barbiturates to cause death. Police Drop Case. Comanche county authorities Saturday said no official inquiry is being made into the Cox death and "as far . as we are able to determine the case is closed." Police chief Ralph Hennessee said he had conferred with sheriff Everett Ray Hale and. Manville Rechnan, county attorney, and "as far as we can determine there is nothing to this talk about it being Authorities said they are positive there was 130 foul play. They said the case was handled• as a "sick case" from the beginning and pointed out an attending physician was present at the time Cox died. Harry Nordendale, Lawton motel operator who found Cox unconscious on his bed Sunday morning, said no medications or bottles of any kind were found when, he searched the room with police. Nordendale said he was not sure Cox even had luggage when he checked into the motel, and so far as the motel operator knows, Cox had no visitors from. the time he checked into the motel between 9 and 11 Saturday night until Nordendale found him Sunday night. Cox died at 4 a.m. Monday morning in a Lawion hospital, and physicians at first could not determine whether his death was caused by pneumonia or drugs. The autopsy report calls Cox's death the result of concentrations of barbiturates, adding that the case was complicated by pneumonia "in the last few hours of his life." Inyestigation Started?. His mother, Mrs. Edith Spencer, 2115 NW- 16, said Saturday afternoon she had not been informed of the autopsy. results, and. she declined to comment until she received official information. She would not comment on the amount of insurance Cox carried. An insurance company investigation apparently is underway. Cox's father, J. P. "Pete" Cox, a Lawton fireman now divorced from Cox's mother and remarried, said he knew Cox had taken out one $610,000 insurance policy recently. Inge Brenner, Cox's Austrian prison camp sweetheart, has announced she will make every effort to come to this country to determine the cause of Cox's death. She believes murder is the only explanation. Cox was released last Christmas day by the Russians after being held in prison since September 5, 1949. Miss Brenner was one of the persons who helped gain his release. He made an unsuccessful race for secretary of state in the last ... mother had him jailed for a sanity hearing. A sanity board ruled him sane. Cox was involved in an auto crash on U.S. 62 at the Newcastle bridge two weeks ago. His father believed chest injuries received in that crash might have caused his death,

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