The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
MURDER MYSTERY
 IS PARTLY SOLVED
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iendants had spent six months m jall awaiting trial that the defend ants and themselves and Terry were enroute from Heavener to Bates saw mill camp about five miles from that
 town when Terry was killed in a llght on the night of August 20. 1907 1 The party travelled in two wagons and while going to the camp. Bates. | Terry and Naught had a uIarrel over remarks Naughl told Bates Terry had made about Mrs. Bates.
 The difficulty was ended without violence, but about two miles farther it was renewed.
 Terry and Vaught came to blows and Terry was getting the best of ihe encounter, the witnesses said. when Vaught picked up a scantling and dealt Terry powerful blow be- hhid llie left ear and felled him. As Terry attempted to arise Vaught struck him across the head second time with the club killing him. the witness said. They said that during the fight Bates had pulled big re- volver and told them that he was pulling off this thing After the killing they testified. Bates and Styles repeatedly threatened to kill him if they revealed the murder.
 Unusual Testimony.
 Terry's body they said was placed in a wagon and was hauled to the lumber camp where it was put in a feed house. Later that night. Bates and Vaught came to the home of Swiber where McKibben was staying and told them to go to the feed house. Arriving there they found Terry's trousers had been removed and his shirt torn from him. The men changed his clothing, putting a pair of overalls on him. The body was then hauled to to the hillside where McKibben, Bates and Styles, the witness said, deposited it a short distance from the road. A few moments later Bates and Vaught removed the body further up the hill, the witness said, and presently , they discovered fire nearby. The party had brought from the lumber camp a number of tin cans and buckets, they testified which were placed beside the corpse to give 1t the appearance that the unfortu- nate was tramp.
 Mrs. Julia A. knotts, of Caulks- vile, an aunt who reared Terry, tes- tilled at the trial that when Terry was about i2 years old he fractured his right leg. The skeleton of the man found on the hillside showed d fracture of the right leg. An old hat of Terry's fit the skull of the unfortunate perfectly at the trial, while a dentist testified he placed gold filings in Terry's teeth similar to the filling found in the teeth of the skeleton.
 Despite this testimony, however, the jury disagreed, chiefly, it IS said, because of conflicting state ments of the states star witnesses, Mckibben and Swiber, and because of the large number of witnesses the defendants produced to prove they were miles away from the scene of the supposed murder at the time it occurred. At the second trial of the case in the following No- Vember, Styles was first to face the jury which acquitted him after 2 brief delfberation. The cases of Vaught and Bates were then dis missed, and McKibben was released and Swiber pardoned.
 Ever since their acquittal the ac- cused men have been active in try ing to locate Terry. According to some witnesses at the trials he was seen to board a southbound train at Mena on the night he was supposed to have been killed About two years ago, evidence came to light to prove conclusiyely that Terry had been seen in Texas several years after he was murdered v
 Terry, when visited in jail today, said that for many years he had been in ill health, having contracted tuberculosis which during the past three years has been active. He stated that he did not want to be- come public charge and a burden to his aged aunt, Mrs. Knox, so he decided to drop out of the lives of those who knew him and go to Texas for his health. Upon leaving Mena, he says, he went to Lorain, La. Then he began a wide travel over Texas, stopping at Beaumont, Galveston, Altaloma, Rosenburg, where he lived two years. Eagle Lake, where he lived fl months, Sabinal, where he lived two years, Del Rio, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and other places, doing railroad work chiefly and following the. life of tramp on many oecasionssQg
 Testimony Was Frame Up.'
 On April 2, last. he says, he en- tered the county hospital at Los Angeles for treatment for tuberculo- sis ten days after his arrival in that city. Terry, after being arrested on warrant charging him with the murder of John Doe, refused to return to Poteau to assist in clear ing up the mystery, stating he could not stand the long trip. His condi- ton is none too encouraging.
 MeKibben says he knows nothing about the murder and that he was not present as he previously stated, when the tragedy was enacted near Heavener. He declares the story