The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
MURDER MYSTERY
 IS PARTLY SOLVED
Bud" Terry, for Whose Supposed Death Willard Vaught and Others Tried and Acquitted, Brought
 From California to Testify.

Poteau. Okla, Sept. ll.-Believed To have been murdered ten years ago and for whose supposed death three Imen almost forfeited their liberty, J. ". Bud Terry, aged 8, was brought from Los Angeles, Gal, by Sheriff Frank Carter Monday and was lodged in Jail here on a tech nical charge of murder, but later re- leased.
 Louis McKibben, of Mena, Ark, who. with Sam Swiber, at two trials of the defendants charged with Ter Irys murder, swore that he witnessed the killing and whose story of the aifar was adroitly connected with the discovery of a bleached skeleton that was supposed to be the remains .of Terry, is also in jail here and admits that his testimony at the trial was a perjury turnout.
 The case presents greater mys- teries than any criminal cause that lis recorded on the historical pages |of the criminal courts in the old In dian country in Oklahoma. Mckib- ben says he is ready to plead guilty lat once to perjury and accept d prison sentence. The whereabouts of .Swiber are not known and it is pre- dpted ehat before McKibben faces a court there will be many more de- yelopments.
 Terry declares he never heard the story of his supposed murder until he met Robert McClelland, former ly of Poteau, in the county hospital at Los Angeles the last week in June of this year. McCleIland and Terry were acquainted while both resided in this county. A letter from Me ClelIand to brother here that he had found Terry resulted in the case being re-opened and aft- ter Terry's identity had been thoroly established he was placed under ar rest by the Los Angeles county au- thorities upon request of Sheriff Carter. while McKibben was also taken into custody.
 Story of the Alleged Crime.
 In the fall of 1907 a portion of a skeleton was found on lonely hill about three miles southeast of Heav- ener. The skull was missing It was found later with the left side caved in. The discovery was made by the remains of a camp fire and from ap- pearances the affair looked like q tramp died there At least that was The general opinion of the people
 Mystified over the sudden disap- pearance of Terry. the Odd Fellows lodge at Caulksville, where Terry formerly lived and where he be- lOneed to the lodge. began an inves- tigation of his prolonged absence in 1910 A detective was employed by the lodge.
 They "Witmessedr Murder,
 As a result of this investigation. Walter l.. Bates, then a merchant at HeaVener and now farmer residing near Lincoln, Ark; Willard yaught of Mena, formerly of Caulksville: Will X. Styles of Rateliff, Ark, now of Stillwell, Ok, and McKibben were arrested charged with first degree murder in connection with Terry's supposed death The arrests took place in November of 1910. McKib- ben turned states evidence. Swiber was serving a sentence of five years in the Oklahoma penitentiary for horse stealing, having been convict ed at the November term of court in 1909 at poteau for the offense. He made a confession" which closely eorroberated McKibben's statement and was pardoned from the peniter-
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