Volume 17 , Issue 24

One Hundred Years Ago, 20 July 1915

One hundred years ago today 20 July 1915, The Tulsa Daily World reported with front page headlines: "Murdered Man Strikes Terror By Going Home." A man believed to have been murdered, and identified in the morgue by relatives as their kin, returned today to his awe-stricken family.

Milwaukee, July 19 (1915) -- The man was Frank Klug. He was supposedly murdered August 22, 1914, near Lake Station. Nice Georgian was arrested for the murder and on December 5, 1914, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. According to attorneys and officials, the fact that Klug had returned would make no difference in the sentence imposed on Georgian. The fact that a man was murdered was well established, they said, and the circumstantial evidence positively connected Georgian with the crime. Georgian, however, had continually denied his guilt.

Plug disappeared after becoming discouraged with his home conditions. Fearing arrest for desertion, he made no effort to communicate with his family until recently, when a letter from a friend gave him his first intimation that he had been murdered.
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