The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-29
BODY IS ExHUMeD|
FOR AUTOPSY AND
OPERATION FOUND
Victim Kept in Physicians o..
flee Before Death,
MARRIED MAN IS ACCUSED
Elsie Stone and Fred 0'NeN
Taught at Same School.
kONAWA, Okla, Aug. ~

N'A'fNN w ~ ONINt fNuk, eys~ q
~ Especially DR.. A. II, YateA
ASS prominent physician Of kcn.
II ava, and Fred O'Neil, eT
school teacher also Of thll 4
city arc held on charges OF murder ~ {
the county jail a, Wewoka in connscs 4
ton with the death OF pretty l6.yesrs
old Elsie Stone, also school teacher,
who succumbed last week to Whist y
now believed TO have been a crimloAl ;
operation. the men arc kept In sooAs
rate cells and neither is allowed -
communicate with the other u;
Attorney Says Both Implicated.
According to County Attorney n. q 3
Nichols OF Seminole county, infogMo. 4
ton duplicating both Yates and ONe)l1
in the responsibility for the death leE
the girl teacher is in his hands. ~
declares that he can prove that ~
girl was placed in the office Of DoclgRs
Yates here on the nigh, Of Auguot 1vS
and remained in the office four dn1o'
until the following Sunday, when ~,
was removed TO his home. When DNol
died Doctor Yates declared that ees3
death resulted from "congsseISog
chill" fe ri|
ONcil, the county attorney deslssSsy
carried meals to the girl during ~
confinement in the office OF Doet0g.
Yates The latter, before the girl Wnel
removed TO his home, called in anoel8
local doctor to aid him In presssv,16(
the girls HE. I, 10 thought that 4 >
state will rely sres,iy upon his. ~ 4
mony In establishing the tsst Of =,
girls presence for mors stas NJ Z
week in Yates' office. KIP
| Warrants Follow Autopsy. mi,
Most OF the Konawa friends Of ~
girl apparently accepted a. true tho
reason Tor her death assigned by Doe.
tor Yates. But few whose suspicioue
were aroused communicated with Cotfl-
~ Attorney Nichols and on last Sue.s
day morning he and the county phyetss
clan Of Seminole county went 70 ~
cemetery at Seminole where the ~
was buried An autopsy was pegsi
formed in the graveyard and the Iel4oh
Of the post mortem was that Mr.. NIc4N,
ols Immediately swore out the cco~sl
plants against Yates and ONell tpt'
fore local justice. Is
Their arrests followed within ou'
hour Dr. Yates was hurried TO ~
where he was placed in the county jajI
oi pon,otoc county for safekeeptnos
O'Neil was rushed TO the SemincloI
county jail. Public kelns ran hiCh'
az soon as the result Of the aut0vDy
was made known, and county authori-
ties decided to take no chances WIKI
the sentiment of townsren of the etsj
and the two accused men. Other afs
rests are expected momentarily
Will Be Arrsisned Tomorrow.
Yates and O'Neil will be arraigMed
tomorrow morning before q Justice oe
the peace at Seminole, according TO-
presen, plans Both are expected a.
plead not guilty TO charges agaifae
them. hut County Attorney Nichols ~,
clared today that he will resist TO ~
utmost any attempt on the papt of ~,
accused men to be admitted to hail. y
! O'Ncil and Miss Stone taught sAhoog
together in a Seminole county dialsteeI
school all last winter They are ~
to have been very intimate Accordi(I
TO County Attorney Nichols, the e3S
would have become mother wiCE1q
the mex, four months, ti
Both DR.. Yates and O'Neil are go
ried men The former is about AS yu(11
old lie has wife and four chll@tG
two Of whom are married. O'Nsl1 II
abou, 10 years old He has Z Wo0
and three small children, F1'