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Author: maryachtrh
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Appears in "The Wapanucka Press" 24 March 1904, Wapanucka, Johnston County, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
COFFELT CASE ENDS
County Attorney Orders Dismissal of This Celebrated Case
Winfield, Kansas: The O. W. Coffelt murder case one of the hardest fought and most stubbornly contested murder case in the history of Kanas or Oklahoma, has come to a close with the dismissing of the charges against him on the motion of the county attorney. The court room was fairly filled at the time, and the defendant together with J. C. Miller, of Ranch 101, were present. There has been much discussion among the Oklahoma papers as to whether there would be another trial and it is said that Miller and Coffelt appeared relieved when the case was dismissed.
Coffelt has been on trial four times on the charge of the murder of George M. Montgomery, a Santa Fe secret service man. Each time the jury hung but it was rumored for awhile that there would be another trial.
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