Volume 17 , Issue 31

(1910) For Death of An Ottawa Girl

It was reported in "The Evening Herald," in Ottawa, Kansas, 5 December 1910, page 8, which read: "For Death of An Ottawa Girl." Mabel Oakes had died mysteriously in an old opera house, converted to an office of the Justice of Peace, N. L. Miller, in downtown Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, 9 November 1910.

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For Death of An Ottawa Girl

It was 5 December 1910, Monday morning the Ottawa, Kansas newspaper was reporting on the trial of N. L. Miller, which began in Alva, Oklahoma a week before on a Friday. Miss Mabel Oakes, who was reared in Ottawa, Kansas, was found dead in her employer's office.

The trial of N. L. Miller, on the charge of murdering Miss Mabel Oakes, the former Ottawa girl, had begun in Alva, Oklahoma, Friday of last week.The jury was selected on that day and the opening of the case occupied most of Saturday, together with the empaneling of a jury. Considerable time Saturday was taken up in arguing the matter of allowing the testimony of a physician who had attended Miss Oakes at the request of the accused.

Dr. A. C. Stafford testified Saturday that he had been asked to perform an operation upon Miss Oakes, which he refused to do, although he had examined her. The body of Mabel Oakes was found in the rear of an old opera house at Alva (Oklahoma) on November 9(sp) (1910). The building was owned by N. L. Miller, and the room was in direct connection with his office, in which Miss Oakes had been a stenographer. Miller was the man who gave the first statement in regard to her death when he called the girl's father from across the street.

The father testified at the coroner's jury that Miller insisted on him saying nothing of the death until they could move the body into the front office. The coroner's jury decided that the girl had been strangled with a scarf and that they believed the person who strangled her was Miller.
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