Volume 2 , Issue 2

Old Opera House Mystery The Coroner's Inquest - November 10, 1910

Woods County Case #612 Filings
The last we left you in suspense with Nelson Miller was sitting on the old stage of the Old Opera House while the sheriff and justices were investigating and gathering people off the street for an Inquest, November 9, 1910, for the death of our young victim Mabel Oakes (23 years, single woman) who was found allegedly strangled to death in the back of the Old Opera House, Alva, Oklahoma.

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Chronology of Alva's 1st Homicide, 9 Nov 1910

Alva' First Homicide - 9 November 1910, Nelson L. Miller vs. State of Oklahoma - Death of Mabel Oakes - Chronology - Timetable

March 1909 - Mabel Oakes begins working in Nelson Miller's office at the Old Opera House as general office girl job at his office to learn typewriting, office work. Miss Oakes had worked at his office until about three weeks before her death with a couple of intermissions of about a month each time because of a couple of broken arms. 

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