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PAGE TWOPapers Taken From One of Slain Brothers Left onMuskogee Window LedgeMUSKOGEE. May 9—'^—Police today were working on a theory that a package of papers, r the property or George R. Smith, who with hist brother, David, was slain in a hotel here about two weeks ago, was left on the window ledge of a Muskogee store yesterday for some purpose, they said, but declined to elaborate on the statement, or to reveal what they believed the purpose might have been. 'The papers, which included 'identification cards, personal -•cards, and small photographs, ap- i parently of members of Smith’s ••family, were found by Bill Bal-. lard, an Indian medicine man j whose tribal name is Tuksa-Wiwi. i ..He discovered the packet on aj window' ledge, and after calling • Bill Addington, proprietor of the J ..store, and investigating the pa-:pers. called police, J[,[ Officers investigating the case j pointed out that the papers had [.oeen lying on the window ledge only a few minutes. To illustrate ’ this point, the packet was placed where it was found and a wind quickly scattered the contents. The papers also were dry, and rain has fallen virtually every day since the[.Smiths were slain.Police indicated the papers1 might have been left on the win- j dow ledge to establish an alibi, but declined to say for whom they believed the alibi was intended, iThe Smith brothers were slain j [ in their hotel room, officers were told by P. lt;». Seeley and John Wike, bv two strange men, after a desperate struggle. The men j then hound and gagged Wike, rob-1 ‘ bed him of a small amount of money, and fled. Seeley and Wike.[ one a business acc/iaintance and •the other an old friend of the Smith family, were charged with ■ murder in connection with the Smiths’ deaths, but later were freed at a preliminary hearing, j
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Fri, May 09, 1930
Page 17
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