Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-15
NALL0Y OUTLINES
THEORY Of STATE
EVENTS MOVED RAPIDLY, BE.
GINNING SECOND WEEK or
MURDER TRIAL.
ETAILSCONSPIRACY CHARGE
Jury Was Comp ctcd, Opening State
mcnt Heard and First Tcsu-
mony Heard Yesterday.

Things moved rapidly the first day
/ Of the second week of the trial of Guy
/ II. Mackenzie and Joe Baker, charged
with the murder of Charles T. Reuu
/ May ). yesterday when the jury was
completed. the states opening state,
ment put IN the record and the first
! six witnesses for the state testified.
Eleven jurors occupied the box when
the trial opened yesterday morning
and before noon a twelfth had been
secured.
At two O'Clock County Attorney
MallOy In a convincing and straight
forward manner began unfolding to
tae Jurymen, the states theory Of the
murder plot which resulted IN Reu-
tcr'a death and of the particular part
the state expects to prove each of tho
defendants played, including Mrs.
Laura NJ. Reuter-, II alleged accom-
plice who VIII be tried later
MurdcrcrS Paid $500.
Walking up and down in front OF
the twelve farmer iurymen. Mr.. Nal.
10y calmly and dispassionately un.
folded what the state Will attempt to
prove was q conspiracy between Guy
ID. Mackenzie and Mrs. Laura Reuter-
TO kill Mrs. Reuters husband. Charles
T. Reuter-. because OF an alleged Illicit
lcVe between the two consprators.
1he oonspirators according to Malloy
hired Joe Baker, for $500 to do tho
killing and Bud Bellew WAS use to ala
In the murders escape.
The statement of Malloy follows in
part.
"1'he state Of Oklahoma In this case
expects to prove the following facts
that on the morning of May g. about
ono o'clock. nelghbors Of the Reuters
We're awakened by three shots in rapI1 |
ntely ny screams OF Mrs. Reuter-"
III viii develop that some of the /
-neighbors looking out of their win /
dows saw a man running from tho |
Reuter- home. wearing an oYercoat |
and carrying flashlght They saw |
him run north on Cheyenne avenue |
to Golden street whore he turned the |
corner west. other ncighbors saw |
the man as he ram west on Golden mp |
the steep Incline. At the crossing of |
Denver this man met Ralph johnson |
who was going TO his home. lie COM
manded Johnson TO lay down which !
he did and the man passed on. lie
ran down block or two and turned !
north and was lost Tor the time"
"The evidcnce will then 60 back to |
the Reuter- home and Will tell of find
ing Reuters body stretched out on tho |
floor Of his bedroom with three bullet
holes In his head II Will also show !
that Mrs Reuter was locked In her |
room with the key on tho outside II |
Will develop that the deceased was
seen IN his Office on the corner o
Second aud Main about 10 o'clock that
night; was seen In a drug store about |
1880 ana In front OF THE Brady hotel
about IIi5. That was the last seen
Of him except by his wife and tho
u,urderer,H
1T will be shown that the defend
ants Mackenzie and Baker were ofll
very friendly terms and were seen re
In each Others company; that
Grover Belley had been in the fm-
pIoy of Mackenzie had an antomobIc
ond thai lie,ley jrorcgit wlihou, any
stipulated saiars bat secured ntuncy
n ON Mackc cnsi,' Us ne needed II. A
elose reia,lpnshipl wn be shown be-
tWGpn all three. tr ,F.rfl " q f3j
II viii deveiop tha, the rehuons
between Mrs iteuter and her hpsbaaJl
were far from pleesan nj and one of the
great 4caasos nf tnis Was G,D SIscken-
zie; that Begteri whs saious ofihs
attentions of AMaciserzieN eNto hfs awifc
ard of his wife to Mackenzie. Mrs
Reuter- often complained 60 the neigh
bors Of her cruel treatment at the
hands of her husband. It will be
shown that on1 of the charges sho
.omplalned II was that her husband
had charged her with being intimate
with Mackenzie. that he charged her
with being untrue and threatened 10
Kill Mackenzie: that she told neigh
bors that II II came to killing Guy
would get him first because he was
the quickest "
1t will develop that on Easter Sun
day the Reuters had quarrel and
that Reuter- charged his wife with
being intimate with Mackenzie ana
hat as she left the house he said TO
her Go on over and love him like