Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-13
SEVEN WITNESSES TESTIFIED
TOE 1HI STATE At NESTTR-
DAYS SESSION.
STATE outlined ITS Case
CHARGED THAT JEFFRIES WAS
INFINITE WITH THE MUIR
DiRID WOMAN.
Defense BLAMGS HUSBAND
In Opening Statement. Defense be-
care They VIII Prove Husband
Killed Mrs. Gohccn.

CLAREMORE, Okla, Nov IL
Especial Seven witnesses We're cN-
amined today in the Ii. o. Jeffries
murder trial before the adjournment
OF court for the day. The testimony
Of j. W. Staats. at whose home Mrs.
Goheen was boarder, was the most
damaging to the defendant OF the
days session. Several hours OF the
morning were spent in an endeaNor
on the part of the defense TO quash
the Indictment. but without avail. Tho
court room was crowded and intense
interest was taken in the evidence as
introduced
W. A. Thraves, prosecuting attor-
ney of Nowata county, in his address
outlining the evidence he will present
to the Jury said in part;
II deem this one OF the most Inn
portant cases ever presented to jury,
one born In iniquity and which has
left trail of slime and degradation
throughout our fair section of Okla
homa and perhaps unequalled In the
annals of the past,
The following facts and circnm'
stances surround this crime:
Irene Goheen Is dead and came To
her death at the hands OF murderer.
Irene Gohecn was In the employ OF
Fl. o. Jeffries II. o. Jeffries was
the last man who saw her alive.
'The circumstances which we will
prove are as follows:
II. O. Jeffries called on Mrs. Co
hecn in her private boarding house
twice one evening. the evening she was
employed by him.
II. 0. Jeffrics was with Irene Co
aeen several times during the day sNe
was murdered and took hold of her
person.
III. O. Jeffries tried to suppress the
friends of the missing woman when
they tried to search for her.
I'll. q. Jeffries makes conflicting
statements as to the probable cause OF
her disappearance and on the same
day.
III. O. Jeffries makes conflicting
statements as to the time he arrived
at home on the night of the murder
The defendant accused G.. l.. SWart|'
chief DISPATCHER of the Iron Mountain
railroad, and Jake Staaz, at whose
home AIrg. Goheen boarded, ana oth-
orA of the murder. He asserts that
she body of the murdered woman
found in the pasture northwest of Dr..
Freer's place was that of Irene Co
heen He also identified the body as
ne was sitting in a buggy before he
got out. as that of his advertising So
licitor. Tho buggy and horse which
Jcffries owns and drives corresponds
to the tracks Of the horse and bugSy
which Irene Goheen alighten from
near the scene of her deoth Inc
tracks Of the man who murdered Mrs.
Cohen correspond TO the shoes ot II
A. Jeffrios. Jeltries, in order to con-
ceal the crime. had his shod soon
after the murder was committed ana
befnro the body was found and asked
the blacksmith to change the shoes
materially. In his alibi he failed TO
show where he was from l0.33 y. m.
to > minutes before II on the night OF
the murder. except by witnesses VINO
were unable to testify to any special
dates or time on any other day that
thev had seen him. He Identified tho
womnn's hat found in the yard where
she boarded before he examined II
Jeffries. the prisoner. both In person
and by his attorney. refuses to place
his feet in the track removed from
the scene Of the murder, and idenu'
fled as the track of the men VINO
murdered Irene Goheen
"T believe II will be seen that the
story of the dispute is fabrication
from start to finish. The excuses that
the defendant makes for his actions
from the eventful night on which he
hired thi. young woman to the day
of mis- arrest all point to but one
place and lead to but one destination.
He can't get away from it and II
hangs over his head like the sword
OF Nemess
I'VE see this man grow tired of his
matrimonial alliance. He grows tired
nj his home and home life and for
sakes the side Of his wife for that OF
strange woman. He exchanges the
glow of virtue for passions feeble Ia
pers and suffers the usual penalty
say to you gentlemen who are to try
this man that this crime of ii. Q. Jef-
fries has formed the greatest blot on
the escutoheon of the fair state of.