Volume 17 , Issue 31

(1910) Magistrate Held

As reported in "The Cincinnati Enquirer," in Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 November 1910, Saturday, page 1, the headlines read: "Magistrate Held," after his stenographer was found dead in his courtroom.

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Alva, Okla., November 11 (1910) -- N. L. Miller, Justice of the Peace, whose stenographer, Mabel Oakes, was found dead in his courtroom, was ordered held by the coroner's jury for further investigation in connection with he girl's death. According to the testimony by the girl's father he had accused Miller of being too friendly with the girl. Mr. Oakes said that Miller had at last declared that he would marry the girl as soon as he could get a divorce.

The body of Miss Oakes was found in Miller's office with her hands folded across her breast as if she had died naturally. A fascinator was tied around her neck so tightly that doctors said she could not have tied herself.
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