Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-05-12
PRELIMINARY TRIALS IN MUIR
DER CASE START TOMORROW
MORNING.
few FACTS ARE Given OUT
State TO Base Case on Conspiracy
May Last Several Days--C0unty
Bar Thanked.


Guy Mckenzie, Bud Bellew or Joe
Baker have anything to do with II
Does Mrs. Rueter. wife Of the dead
man, know anything concerning the
mystery which has not yet been made
public? Was the murder the work OF
burglar who has made his escape
These and similar other question
that have been on the tongues oi
thousands of Tulsans all this week
will probably be answered on tomoi
row, the date of the preliminary hear
ing of the three men under arrest
charged with completely in the alleged
crime. The hearing will start at
o'clock before Justice of the Peace
John j. Slack in the county court
house.
What evidence the state has found
during the last few days, which has
been kept secret, will be made public
Monday. What evidence the attorneys
for the defense have collected will also
be made public.
Mrs. Reuter- Has Returned.
Mrs. Reuter- arrived In Tulsa yes
terday from Peoria, H.. where she
went last Monday to bury the body OF
her husband. Whether she will take
the stand is as yet problematlcal, but
the chances are that she will be put
on in rebuttal by the defense.
Today the detectives working on
the states case and the county attor-
ney's office force will go over the
evidence in the case. preparatory to
the trial. What progress the defense
has made is still a matter Of conjec-
ture.
The state will base its case on the
theory that Mckenzie. Bellew and
Baker formed conspiracy to put
Reuter- out Of the way. 1t will at
tempt to prove that although McKen-
zie was in Skiatook on the night of the
murder, Baker and Bellew. who claim
they spent the night in Sapulpa, were
in Tulsa at the time of the murder
and were seen close to the scene short
ly after the crime was committed. 1t
will attempt to prove that these two
drove into Sapulpa at o'clock on
Sunday morning.
The alleged friendship between Mrs.
Reuter- and Mckenzie will Indoubted-
ly be taken up in order to furnish evil
dence of motive for the crime.
Probably $50 witnesses will be ex-
amined during the course of the pre-
liminary, and 1t is possible that the
trial may last two or three days. Not
since the preliminary trial of Assist
ant Chief of Police John Moran has
any trial attracted such wide attention.
The court room will likely be filled
to overflowing.
The following letter of thanks from
Reuters family. was received yester.
day: I'VE wish to thank tha mem.
bers of the Tulsa Bar association for
the kind and loving resolution offered
us In memory of our beloved son and
brother.
May God bless and spare each and
every one of them the terrible ordeal
through which he has seen fit to call
us to pass.
1t is great consolation to know
that our beloved departed was held in
such high esteem for his sterling quail
tiles by his fellow members Of tho
Tulsa bar. and this memory will help
tn brighten the darkness which his
cruel death has brought into our lives.
I'VE also wish to thank the kind
minister, friends and neighbors who
so Loyalty stood by his bsreaved wife
and children in the terrible hour Of
their trouble. God Will send them
comfort in their hour OF need. we
know. just as they have given COM
fort when 1t was so badly needed.
"Our loss is lrreparabie. and yet
We know that some how this great
wrong will be righted. for Gods ways,
although inscrutable to us, are just.
Mrs. Marcella Reuter- and family"