Summer of 1910 - About 9:00 to 10:00 p.m., Mr Miller had asked Hank W. Noah, Fred Frederickson and John E. Shaw to go up to the Oakes house to see if they couldn't catch the party that was delivering certain letters. Miller had mentioned that Mabel was up at the house and some other girl was with her. That neither the parents or brother were at home.

Summer of 1910 - Miller stated that Mabel first went to see Dr. Saffold for treatment of her sinking spells.

August 1910 - David Arndt experienced Mabel Oakes fainting spell in Miller's office the middle of August, 1910 Miss Oakes lying on the floor, unconscious.

August thru October 1910 - Dr. Saffold examined Mabel Oakes three times beginning in August thru October, 1910.

2 August 1910 - Dr. Saffold stated, "The first time that I saw Miss Oakes professionally was about the 1st of August. I think it was the second. I was called down and found her in almost an unconscious condition sitting in a chair. The first time, Miller asked me to go down to see her. The second time Miller asked me to call on her. The last time I saw Mabel, Miller came to me and asked me to produce an abortion. He came to me and asked me to examine her. He asked me if I would examine her."

Late August or 1 September 1910 - Mr. E. P. Weaver testified that he had seen Miss Oakes get into Mr. Miller's buggy the later part of August or the first of September, on a Friday evening. He also testified that it was NOT Mr. Miller. He was not certain, but he thought it was Dan Fletcher (a married man). Mr. Weaver knew it was not Mr. Miller because he had just left him at the Eagle Hall a few minutes before around nine o'clock p.m. The Eagle Hall was located on Second Street between Santa Fe and Flynn Avenue. 

September 1910, Sunday - Miller hunted Mr. Oakes up downtown and took him back to Oakes residence in Miller's buggy when Mabel had one of her sinking spells.

October 1910 - George Parker had occasion to go over to Miller's office and he saw the back door to the back room open and noticed some one was laying on the floor -- it was Mabel Oakes. Miller was rubbing her hands and Emmet Nowel was at the side of her, rubbing her arms 

17 October 1910 - The last time Dr. Safford examined Mabel Oakes. Prior to Mabel Oakes death in November, about three weeks, Dr Saffold examined Mabel Oakes. Safford testified in court that Miller ask Dr. Saffold to perform an abortion. Saffold refused. 

5 or 6 November 1910 - H. M. Green noticed that Mabel had a very black left eye and the left side of her face was slightly bruised from her eye to her ear with abrasion of the skin between the eye and the ear. Mr. Green testified that he stood in the office doorway and talked to A. C. Grimes and Mr. Miller maybe three or four days before the election during the Fall of 1910.

5-7 November 1910 - Mr. D. R. Frazier testified that he had seen Miss Oakes in Miller's office with a black eye, cheek a few days before the Fall election.

7 November 1910 - Between the hour of twelve and one o'clock. Mr. Charles Wagner spoke with Ms. Oakes as he walked into Miller's office and asked her where Mr. Miller was. Mr. Wagner testified that Ms. Oakes raised her face up and looked like she had been crying. Ms. Oakes mentioned to him that Mr. Miller was in the rear room. 

7 - 8 November 1910 - few days before election (Nov. 8), Mabel Oakes was in Miller's office when A. C. Grimes noticed that Miss Oakes was black along the left side of her face and it ran back to about her ear. She also had a black eye on the left side of her face.

8 November 1910 - George Oakes did not see his daughter before she went downtown the morning on election day. He only saw her at bedtime. 

9 November 1910, Wednesday - Mabel Oakes left home about ten o'clock in the morning and was found dead in a portion of the building in which Miller's office was located about three o'clock in the afternoon.

1. 9:00 a.m. - George Oakes last saw his daughter alive. Mr. Oakes went uptown the morning of 9 November 1910 and did not see his daughter that forenoon. 
2. 10:00 a.m. - The last time Carrie saw her daughter
3. 11:00 a.m. - Mabel was at Miller's office.
4. 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. - George Bell saw N. L. Miller at his office on 9 November 1910
5. 12:00 p.m. - George Oakes had gone home to dinner a little after he left the Republican headquarters.
6. 12:10 to 12:15 p.m. - S. B. Share testified that he saw Miller in Miller's office about 12:10 to 12:15 p.m. 
7. 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. - C. O. "Dick" Green witnessed Justice N. L. Miller around the Old Opera House between 12 & 1 o'clock p.m.
8. 12:00 p.m - E. M. Rauh saw Miller in some time near about twelve o'clock or a few minutes after, at the Republican headquarters, 
9. 2:00- 3:00 p.m. - Rauh saw Mr. Miller again as they came down the stairs from the republican headquarters together. Rauh testified that Miller walked across the square to the Old Opera House.
10. 12:30 p.m. - Mr. I. W. Barnhouse testified that he got to town, went in to Crouch's lunch room, on the south side of the square -- feed his horses and ate his dinner and came out of the lunch room between 1:00 o'clock and 1:10p.m.
11. 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. - James Roller saw N. L. Miller continuously during the hour in front of Jesse Jackson's Cigar Store on the west side of the public square in the city of Alva, Oklahoma, learning the election returns of the election held on the day previous. 
12. 1:00 p.m. - George Oakes stated under oath, "I came directly past Mr. Millers Office." When asked how long did you remain there at Miller's office at that time, 1:00p.m., Oakes replied, "It wasn't a minute. I just opened the door and looked in there and closed it again." Oakes testified that the door of the office was unlocked. Oakes just opened it, and did not look into the old opera house. He didn't enter Miller's office. He just opened the door of the office and looked in for a short few seconds to see if Mabel was in there and then closed the door again.
13. 1:00 to 1:25 p.m. - Alice Amis testified that she didn't see anything except Miller's horse tied to a telephone pole. She did notice that the doors leading into the office and the Old Opera House were closed. When she returned from the Post Office, she passed Miller's office and the Old Opera House again maybe around 1:20 and 1:25 p.m. and Miller came out of office.
14. 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Mr. Ketchen was in the back part of his building, working from 1:00 to 1:30 until between three and four o'clock. Mr. Ketchen testified that he did not hear any struggle or scuffle in the little triangular room of the opera house that was about fifteen feet west from his place of business where he was working.
15. 1:00 p.m. - Oakes went back uptown and looked for Mabel at Miller's office and testified she wasn't there. He looked or Mabel around the square to northeast side of square at republicans headquarters for an hour and a quarter to hour and a half. 
16. 1:30 p.m. - Barnhouse followed Oakes around the square to republican headquarters. Saw Miller there thirty to 45 minutes later.
17. 2:15 -2:30 p.m. - Mr. Barnhouse testified that Miller got to republican headquarters around 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. and stayed about 3/4 of hour or half hour. 
18. 2:30 p.m. - Saffold testified that he had received a phone call from Miller on 9 November 1910 about the time the Rock Island train had come to town. Miller told Saffold it was about that girl, and He wanted Saffold to come immediately. Saffold arrived at the time of the call (about two-thirty) -- the time his nurse told him that the Rock Island train came in to town. Saffold based his judgment as to when this occurred on what a nurse told him in regard to the arrival of the Rock Island train. Defense attorneys want this part of testimony described as hearsay. 
19. 2:40 to 3:10 p.m. - C. H. Mauntel saw Miller over at republican headquarters. Mauntel testified that Miller left republican headquarters at 3:10 p.m. and headed on bike (wheels) over to Jackson's Cigar store. 
20. 3:00 p.m. - Barnhouse and Oakes left republican headquarters. 
21. 3:00 p.m. - Sheriff Hugh Martin testified he saw Miller in Miller's office in the old opera house, in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma, about 3:00 o'clock.
22. After 3:00 p.m. - George Crowell walked over to the opera house and sheriff Martin opened the door and called Crowell in and wanted him to be one of the jurymen and pick other jurymen at the inquest (November 11, 1910.
23. Warrant Filing (George Oakes files a complaint in writing, under oath, in the county court, to Sheriff Hugh Martin.) - State of Oklahoma, County of Woods: "Whereas, complaint in writing , under oath, has been made in the County Court of said County before the Judge thereof by George W. Oakes and it appearing that there are reasonable grounds for believing that on the 9th day of November, 1910, in Woods County and State of Oklahoma, N. L. Miller, did then and there, willfully, purposely, without authority of law, feloniously, with malice aforethought, and with the premeditated design to effect the death of another human being, to-wit: Mabel Oakes, by means of a scarf which he placed and wound around the neck of her, the said Mabel Oakes choke and strangle her until she died, as was intended by said N. L. Miller that she should do and that therefore by the manner and means aforesaid, at said time and place he the said N. L. Miller did kill and murder her the said Mabel Oakes, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Oklahoma." -- it was received, executed on the 11 Nov. 1910, filed January 31. 1911..

10 November 1910 - Information Filing - State of Oklahoma, County of Woods, vs. N. L. Miller -- "That in the County of Woods, State of Oklahoma, on the 9th day of November 1910, N. L. Miller did then and there, willfully, purposely, without authority of law, feloniously, with malice of aforethought, and with the premeditated design to effect the death of another human being to-wit: Mabel Oakes, by means of a scarf which he the said N. L. Miller then and there held in his hands, which he placed and wound around the neck of her, the said Mabel Oakes, choke and strangle her until she died, as was intended by said N. L. Miller that she should do and that therefore by the manner and means aforesaid, at said time and place he the said N. L. Miller did kill and murder her the said Mabel Oakes." It shows the witnesses for the State: George W. Oakes, Hugh Martin, Dr. Templin, Dr. E. Grantham, Dr. G. N. Bilby, Hugh Martin, George Crowell, Mrs. Carrie Oakes, Dr. Saffold, Dr. Gregg, C. O. Green and Kent Eubank. It was signed and dated November 10, 1910 by in front of the clerk of the county court by George W. Oakes who being of lawful age and first duly sworn on his oath says that he has read and knows the statements and allegations contained in the within information and that the same are true.

10 November 1910 - The following is a list of the coroner's jury impaneled by Judge Lawhon, acting coroner: T. B. Roby, J. T. Herold, G. W. Crowell, R.B. Dugan, C. R. Moore, W. M. Goebel. The jury adjourned until nine o'clock, Thursday morning, November 10, 1910, to await the report of the physicians.

10 November 1910 - Funeral services for Mabel Oakes were held at the Renfrew-Howerton undertaking rooms at three o'clock, 10 November 1910, Thursday afternoon, conducted by the Reverend G. W. McQuiddy

10 November 1910 - Oklahoma City Times, Thursday, Nov. 10, 1910, frontpage -- News Article - Alva Girl Murdered - One Arrest - Alva, Okla.,"With the finding of the dead body of pretty Mabel Oakes, 23-year-old daughter of a well-to-do family here, in the rear of the old opera house block, with a silk scarf tightly wound about the neck late Wednesday, the most sensational murder in recent months was uncovered. The girl had been employed for several months as a clerk in the office of N. L. Miller, justice of the peace. Miller's office is in the front part of the building in which the body was discovered. The girl had failed to go home for noonday lunch, and late in the afternoon the father had started for Miller's office to ascertain the cause of her absence. He was met at the door by Miller, who, with ashen face, told him he had just discovered the body. The police were immediately notified and Miller was arrested and lodged in jail. Miller denies all knowledge of the crime or that he had ever had improper relations with her. At the inquest Thursday physicians testified that death was due to strangulation."