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==Locations==
==Locations==
* 625 N. Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of Charles Reuter, murder location
* 220 Wisconsin Ave, Peoria, Illinois - home of Charles with his first wife Mina, she kept it in the divorce.
* 624 N. Boston Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of Guy McKenzie
* [[625 N. Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma]] - home of Charles Reuter, murder location
* 630 N. Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of H. W. Stover where Mrs. Reuter spent the night after the murder


==People==
==People==
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!Description
!Description
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|Bean, John F.
|Baker, Joseph "Joe"
|1831-?
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|Step-father to Jennie Kimball, 2nd husband of Susan Morrison
|
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|de Briou, Corinne Belle
|Bellew, Grover "Bud"
|1873-1966
|
|"Little Corinne"
|Chauffeur of McKenzie
|-
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|de Briou, Henri
|Biddison, A. J.
|?-1878
|
|Biological father of Corinne ?, died in New Orleans
|attorney for Mrs. Reuter, telephone Mrs. Reuter to bring her to court
|-
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|Doane, David
|Biddison, Valjean
|1841-1872
|
|1st husband of Jennie Kimball, quickly dissolved.
|attorney for Mrs. Reuter
|-
|-
|Flaherty, Thomas
|Breckinridge, M. A.
|1834-1892
|
|2nd husband of Jennie Kimball, piano dealer of Boston
|Superior Court Judge
|-
|-
|Kimball, Corinne
|Brodie, Dr.
|1873-1966
|
|(see Corinne Belle de Briou)
|Attended Mrs. Reuter and the murder
|-
|-
|Kimball, Jennie
|Bruner, Billy
|1848-1896
|
|(see Rosylpha Jean Knight)
|"an Indian", traded with McKenzie for a revolver owned by Reuter
|-
|-
|Kimball, Mr.
|Campbell, H. M.  
|?-?
|
|unidentified 3rd husband of Susan Morrison, or made up?
|attorney for the defense.
|-
|-
|Kimball, Susan B.
|Charlton, J. R.
|1821-1881
|
|(see Susan B. Morrison)
|attorney for Guy McKenzie
|-
|-
|Knight, Rosylpha Jean
|Chilcot, E. J.
|1848-1896
|
|Singer, comic, and manager of "Little Corinne"
|witness for the defense, was playing cards with McKenzie
|-
|-
|Knight, William B.
|Cleveland, C. H.  
|?-?
|
|Father of Jennie Kimball, according to her marriage records
|prominent banker, witness
|-
|-
|Schaeffer, Arling
|Crittendon, Tom
|?-1943
|
|3rd husband of Jennie Kimball
|witness, McKenzie stayed with him the night of the murder
|-
|Crossland, Ed
|
|Assistant to the County attorney
|-
|Egan, Ed
|
|Detective
|-
|Friddle, W. M.
|
|boarder at Main Hotel in Skiatook, witness for defence.
|-
|Godwin, Bedford
|
|witness, refuses to talk, committed to the County jail May 15
|-
|Grosshart, Dr. Ross
|
|Attended Mrs. Reuter and the murder
|-
|Gubser
|
|Judge, committed witness Bedford Godwin to jail
|-
|Hanson, Charles
|
|Assist. Chief of Police, arrested Bellew
|-
|Harper, W.E.J.
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|witness, engineer in charge of waterworks construction for McKenzie's wells.
|-
|Johnson, Ralph
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|witness, post office clerk
|-
|Malloy, Pat
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|County Attorney
|-
|McCullough, William
|
|Sheriff on the murder case
|-
|McKenzie, Guy D.
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|a driller for water
|-
|McKenzie, John
|
|father of Guy McKenzie "aged bible scholar"
|-
|McKenzie, Stella
|
|sister to Guy, "warm personal friend" to Laura
|-
|Morris, Horra
|
|witness and alternative suspect
|-
|Parkhurst, Mrs. Inez
|
|witness
|-
|Pence, L. B.
|
|Administrator of the estate of Charles Reuter
|-
|Ramsdale, Benjamin F.
|
|
|-
|Raver, G. T.
|
|witness, property of Main hotel in Skiatook.
|-
|Reuter, Charles T.
|1869-1912
|The victim.  A prominent lawyer and defense attorney
|-
|Reuter, John Charles
|1909-?
|son of Charles and Laura, age 3
|-
|Reuter, Laura M.
|1885-?
|Wife of Charles Reuter, and suspect
|-
|Reuter, Marcella Deener
|1905-?
|daughter of Charles and Laura, age 7
|-
|Ross, W.
|
|witness for the defense, was playing cards with McKenzie
|-
|Rossland, Ed
|
|Assistant County Attorney, acting in the absence of County Attorney Malloy
|-
|Slack, John J.
|
|Heard the preliminary hearing against McKenzie, Bellew, and Baker
|-
|Stover, Hal W.
|
|Neighbor where Mrs. Reuter spent the night
|-
|Welsh, Manuel
|
|witness for the prosecution
|-
|Yoder, Ed
|
|Chief of Police
|}
|}


==Documentation==
==Documentation==
===Burials===
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130263278/charles-t.-reuter?_gl=1*u74xp7*_gcl_au*MTIyNTAyMzM5NS4xNzE2MzAzMTYz*_ga*MTE3ODgzMTQ0NC4xNzE2MzAzMTY0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQwLjEuMTcyMDYzNzY0Mi40OC4wLjA.*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQxLjEuMTcyMDYzNzY0Mi4wLjAuMA.. Find-a-Grave]: Charles T. Reuter (1869-1912), in Peoria, Illinois
===Census Records===
===Census Records===
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4232251_00763?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx9599&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=9869598 1860 US Federal Census]: Susan H. Bean of Maine, 36, with husband John F. Bean, 29, oysterman, and Rosell Knights of Maine, 15.
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/21653191:6742?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 1880 US Federal Census]: Peoria, Illinois - Charles, age 11, with parents and siblings.
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3157910:9203?tid=&pid=&queryId=a3493d45-531b-48eb-a233-2441f4140b95&_phsrc=QFx9417&_phstart=successSource 1865 State Census, Massachusetts]: Susan Bean, 35, of Maine, widow; with Jennie Doan, 17, of Maine, married (husband not listed)
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4113792_01066?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EGE882&_phstart=successSource&pId=12558501 1910 US Federal Census]: Peoria, Illinois - Charles, 32, with first wife Mina in the home of his mother and sister.  
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9203/images/41265_316191-00008?treeid=193423375&personid=372594297995&hintid=1029401532916&usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx9486&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true&pId=3142569 1865 State Census, Massachusetts]: David Doane, 24, of Maine, married, living in the saloon/hotel of Aaron Willey
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/23176638:7884?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 1910 US Federal Census]: Tulsa, Oklahoma - Charles, Laura, and their two children "Marzella" (age 4), and John (age 1)
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4271365_00246?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx8951&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=27045499 1870 US Federal Census]: Thomas Flaerty, piano dealer, with Jennie Kimball, actress, and Susan H. Kimball
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/44072826:6742?tid=&pid=&queryId=73c02015-bfb3-4102-8540-1f7e1890c0c7&_phsrc=QFx8598&_phstart=successSource 1880 US Federal Census]: 311 Columbus Ave, Boston - Mr. and Mrs. Flaherty with Mrs. Susan Kimball and Corinne Kimball
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4114666_00813?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx9361&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=77996329 1900 US Federal Census]: "Corinne B. de Briou", 26, actress, living with Isabel Butler, 29, actress, widow with 1 child; apartent at 126 48th St NYC
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-02643-01002?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx8827&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=5601654 1940 US Federal Census]: "Corinne de Briou", 66, single,born in Louisiana, living at the Hotel Remington in Manhattan
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62308/images/43290879-New_York-043165-0044?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx8902&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=291162395 1950 US Federal Census]: "Corinne Webriou", 76, born in Louisiana, no occupation noted.
===Court Records===
===Court Records===
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2579579:8802?tid=&pid=&queryId=f50bc3d0-59ca-4684-b689-400ec1574257&_phsrc=QFx8700&_phstart=successSource Will of Jennie K. Flaherty, 1896]
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 1912-1914]: Probate of Charles T. Reuter, #1203 (114 pages); Laura M. Reuter petitions for a settlement and partition of the estate.  Commissioners W. A. Brownlee, G. N. Wright, and W. P. Moore are appointed to view and appraise the estate. Mrs. Reuter is allowed $40 per month for the maintenance of herself and the children during the process of the settlement of the estate (6 Jun 1912).  They find that four parcels of real estate are worth a total value of $7050.  The judge finds that Mrs. Reuter and the two children each hold a one-third interest in the estate.  Pence receives $359.19 in commission and expenses as administrator of the estate.
** [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 Testimony of Mrs. Reuter]: marriage date, births of children.
** [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 Undertakers Receipt]: Mewbray Undertaking Co, $247 for casket, hearse, ambulance, shaving, embalming, and permit.
** [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 Rolls File]: Note on male child, 1/16 degree Cherokee, in probate by mistake?  #1143, age 11 when enrolled 1 Sep 1902, Census Card #370
** [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 Receipt]: adenoid operation (tonsils) for Johnie, $25
** [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1063248:9077?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 Accounting]: Allowances, Advancements and Taxes for Laura Reuter, total $1185.29
===Newspaper Articles===
===Newspaper Articles===
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/846378732/?match=1&terms=%22John%20F.%20Bean%22%20Knight 6 Aug 1859, (Portland Press)] - Notice from John F. Bean that he will not pay any debts by Rozylphia P. Knight
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/791849328/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 3 Feb 1899 (Freeport Daily Bulletin)] - How Charles Reuter moved from being a barber to a lawyer 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/827802116/?match=1&terms=%22petite%20corinne%22 29 Oct 1868, (Sun-Journal, Maine)] - First reference of "La Petite Corinne", performing with Miss Jennie Kimball.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/897584526/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 10 Jul 1903 (Weekly Pantagraph)] - Charles make new record for clearing 150 judgements in half a day as a township judge in Peoria.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/589881601/?match=1&terms=%22petite%20corinne%22 6 Feb 1869, (Fall River Daily Evening News)] - "Le Petite Corinne" noted as 5 years old, Miss Jennie Kimball performing Cinderella.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/34492389/?article=87eae97d-c49a-4922-86ca-da93b76129ac/c4fc5b5e-36bf-4484-8ddf-0faf2f037c0b&focus=0.5766576,0.4124396,0.705382,0.8795047&xid=3398&_gl=1*wex440*_gcl_au*MTIyNTAyMzM5NS4xNzE2MzAzMTYz*_ga*MTE3ODgzMTQ0NC4xNzE2MzAzMTY0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQwLjEuMTcyMDYzNzg0My42MC4wLjA.*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQxLjEuMTcyMDYzNzg0My4wLjAuMA.. 8 Nov 1904 (The Inter Ocean)] - marriage license for "Charles Renter" of Peoria, Ill (35) and Mary McKeon (20) 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/875130132/?match=1&terms=%22petite%20corinne%22 21 Jan 1870, (Portland Daily Press)] - last reference of "La Petite Corinne"
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882982725/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 24 Feb 1907 (Tulsa World)] - Charles T. Reuter returns to Peoria after a few days stay in Tulsa, he will come back with his family and practice law. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/734940812/?article=bf028369-66e3-4b52-9c20-ed875c92eb98&xid=4635%20&terms=Miss_Jennie_Kimball&_gl=1*1sew546*_gcl_au*MTEyMjM3MTcwLjE3MTQ0Mjc1NTg.*_ga*MTQxMTExNTQ4NS4xNjg5MzQyODM5*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*YjZhZDgwOWItM2ZjOS00YTUxLTgzMmQtZTczNGI5Y2QzZGNhLjYyMy4xLjE3MjAyNDQ4OTcuMjAuMC4w*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*YjZhZDgwOWItM2ZjOS00YTUxLTgzMmQtZTczNGI5Y2QzZGNhLjU0OC4xLjE3MjAyNDQ4OTcuMC4wLjA. 9 Sep 1870, (Boston Evening Transcript)] - "Miss Jennie Kimball", professional vocalist, accident
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882705937/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 26 Apr 1907 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles Reuter purchases his residence on North Cheyenne Ave.
* 11 Jun 1872, (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier) - Death of David Doane, age 31
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882823527/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 13 Nov 1907 (Tulsa World)] - Charles has two greyhounds 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/428217303/?match=1&terms=%22Susan%20Kimball%22 22 Aug 1877, (Boston Globe)] - Adoption of "Corinne Bell Kimball" by Susan H. Kimball.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/582592011/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 21 Nov 1907 (Collinsville News)] - Charles is attorney for Olive Oil Company of Tulsa, with great confidence in the "Baker oil field" 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/771773636/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20 21 Dec 1880, (The Evansville Journal)] - BEHIND THE SCENES
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882364960/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 25 Nov 1908 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is elected 2nd Vice-President of the new "Jefferson-Jackson Club" in Tulsa 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/430689243/?match=1&terms=%22Susan%20Kimball%22 30 May 1881, (Boston Globe)] - Mrs. Susan H. Kimball dies at home, 311 Columbus Ave, Boston, after a brief illness
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882365165/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 5 Dec 1908 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is elected Secretary of the North West Improvement Association of Tulsa 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/430689265/?match=1&terms=%22Susan%20Kimball%22 31 May 1881, (Boston Globe)] - Death notice, Susan H. Kimball, aged 57 years, 3 months, and 8 days
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882365248/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 10 Dec 1908 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles represents Mrs. Cora Tate in divorce, reports that husband is "a habitual drunkard" and physically and verbally abusive to her and the children. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/89096762/?match=1&terms=%22Susan%20Kimball%22 1 Jun 1881, (Boston Post)] - Funeral of Susan H. Kimball
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/883560918/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 9 Aug 1909 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is acting city attorney, is prosecution in a case against eight gamblers 
* [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/12/02/98575349.html?pageNumber=8 2 Dec 1881, (New York Times)] - Jennie Flaherty, bail set at $10,000 for child abduction.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/709380055/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 25 Aug 1909 (Muskogee Daily Phoenix)] - Miss Louise Martin, 16, attempts suicide, is office girl to Charles Reuter 
* [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/12/11/103400877.html?pageNumber=13 11 Dec 1881 (New York Times)] - Thomas Flahery testifies that he married Jennie Kimball in Manhattan 5 Sep 1879
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882310225/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 21 Dec 1909 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is seriously ill at home with grip and malaria. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/31326147/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20 1 Jan 1882 (Cincinnati Enquirer)] - Case in Which the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Acted Zealously
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882370923/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 21 Jan 1910 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is quickly on the road to recovery from Typhoid Fever.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/809981100/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20 29 Jan 1882, (Minneapolis Journal)] - Little Corinne Takes the Public by Storm
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882370956/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 24 Jan 1910 (Tulsa Tribune)] - further recovery from typhoid fever, but leaking much weaker than before. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/841948356/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22 11 Mar 1882, (Buffalo News)] - Jennie Kimball arrested by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882634631/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 29 Mar 1910 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles represents the city in a case of patrolman Grant Pilkington against C. P. Kline and son who slashed Pilkington across the cheek with a knife (held by the elder), the Kline's filed a counter suit for a receiving a head wound by an officer or officers on the way to the police station.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/69127221/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20 3 May 1882, (The Pantagraph - Bloomington, Illinois)] - a levy made on the wardrobed and properties of the company
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882366308/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 7 Jul 1910 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles is assaulted by James Pilkington (brother of Grant Pilkington), proprietor of a grocery store after Reuter caused the grocery store to be attached for an alleged debt.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/735193292/?match=1&terms=%22Thomas%20Flaherty%22 10 Sep 1892 (Boston Evening Transcript)] - death of Thomas Flaherty from wound of a cannon cracker explortion on July 4.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882773980/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 11 Mar 1911 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Charles files to be on the ballot for Mayor of Tulsa. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/428519810/?match=1&terms=%22Thomas%20Flaherty%22 10 Sep 1892 (Boston Globe)] - death of Thomas Flaherty, on the operating table.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882965162/?match=1&terms=Reuter 5 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - First local article, Charles T. Reuter killed by a robber, wife distraught.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/428519820/?match=1&terms=%22Thomas%20Flaherty%22 10 Sep 1892 (Boston Globe)] - funeral notice for Thomas Flaherty
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882993261/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 6 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune)] - "No Kisses from Her Lips", "I Knew It Was Coming to Papa"
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/72042013/?match=1&terms=%22Thomas%20Flaherty%22 12 Sep 1892 (Boston Post)] - death notice of Thomas Flaherty on Sept 9, born July 12, 1834, aged 58 years
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882965234/ 7 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - Two Arrests - Bellew and McKenzie
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/668205538/?match=1&terms=%22Arling%20Schaeffer%22 2 Oct 1893 (Champaign Daily Gazette)] - marriage of Mrs Jennie Kimball to Arling Schaeffer.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882965272/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 8 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - a representative of The World went to Skiatook and procured evidence that seems to prove McKenzie innocent.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/49692144/?match=1&terms=%22Arling%20Schaeffer%22 5 Oct 1893 (Princeton Union)] - marraige of Mrs. Jennie Kimball to Arling Schaeffer, more details.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/612551630/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 8 May 1912 (The Oklahoma News)] - additional witness says, a few hours after the murders were committed, he saw a car that may have been the burglars going at a high rate of speed, that they may be hiding in the Osage hills.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/603387507/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20doane 24 Mar 1896 (Fall River Globe)] - obituary, notes Jennie Kimballs' birth in New Orleans and first marriage to D. Doane
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882965335/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 9 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - little progress
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/171170526/?match=1&terms=%22Jennie%20Kimball%22 25 Mar 1896 (Wheeling Daily Intelligencer)] - Death of Mrs. Kimball.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/612551707/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 9 May 1912 (Oklahoma News)] - diagram of the house and photo included
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/607629507/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22 11 Apr 1896, (Los Angeles Evening Express)] - The Romance of Corinne
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/582273891/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 10 May 1912 (Daily News and Star)] - Joe Baker is also arrested, kept in a separate cell. Prosecution claims they have a witness, Mr. Welsh, that will testify that he saw the McKenzie automobile in Tulsa between 1 and 2 AM, and that another witness will testify he got up to have a took pulled at 3 am in Skiatook and saw Bellew and Baker there.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/957860779/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22 23 Dec 1896, (The Western News - Hamilton, Montana)] - Jennie Kimball leaves $750k to "home for aged and unemployed actresses"
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882965634/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 12 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - Preliminary trial will start the next morning; state will base their case on conspiracy.  Hearing will be before John J. Slack in the county courthouse.
* [https://www.findmypast.com/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002237%2F19010503&page=11&article=167&stringtohighlight=%22corinne+de+briou%22 3 May 1901, (The Music Hall & Theatre Review, London)] - Miss Corinne de Briou goes to London
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/582274017/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 14 May 1912 (Daily News & Star)] - hearing is postponed, McKenzie pleads not guilty.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/138276523/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22 1 Aug 1903, (St Louis Post-Dispatch)] - "Little" Corinne, Who is Troubled by Too Much Money; Queer is Dilemma of Little Corinne
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/71240654/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 15 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - Bedford Godwin, 1107 E First St, is committed to jail for refusing for refusing to speak on the case.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/480069507/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22%20 19 Jan 1907, (Atchison Daily Globe)] - Corinne as an adult, tells the truth of her childhood.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882993833/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 16 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune)] - Mrs. Reuter is also charged - along with Guy McKenzie, Grover Bellew, and Joe Baker - in the murder of her husband.  First witness testimony is heard.  Dr. Grosshart, Mr. Stover, Mrs. Brownlee.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/466000455/?match=1&terms=%22little%20corinne%22 11 Feb 1907, (Los Angeles Herald)] - Little Corinne's Evolution From Prodigy to Real Star
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882993881/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 17 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune)] - additional testimony; Manuel Welsh
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/87849888/?match=1&terms=Corinne%20Kimball%20stage 3 Oct 1909, (San Francisco Call)] - long article about "Corinne Bell de Briou" on dieting, on the stage, on matrimony.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882966181/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 18 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] - "Several links were formed in the state's chain on the theory that the four defendants conspired to murder Charles T. Reuter, so that McKenzie's alleged intimacy with Mrs. Reuter would be undisturbed. The state alleges that McKenzie and Mrs. Reuter planned the murder, hired Joe Baker, and ex-jail bird, to do the actual killing, and that Bud Bellew helped perform the deed."  Reiterates what was written in Tribune the day before.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/556001766/?match=1&terms=%22Jennie%20Kimball%22 22 Jan 1910, (Times Union)] - "Corinne Belle de Brion" is awarded $7k in jewels back from a loan.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882966285/?match=1&terms=%22Charles%20Reuter%22 19 May 1912 (Tulsa World)] -
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/654036068/?match=1&terms=Corinne%20de%20Briou 14 Apr 1923 (Kansas City Times)] - "Old-Time Stars Are Back" - The Charming Corinne and Jolly Barney Fagan at Main Street.
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/664000451/?match=1&terms=murder%20sensational 20 Sep 1912 (Washington County Sentinel and the Weekly Enterprise)] - Trial of Guy D. McKenzie, Mrs. Laura M. Reuter, Bud Bellew, and Joe Baker is set for 5 Oct 1912 according to the plans of County Attorney Malloy.  McKenzie, Baker, and Bellew are in County jail while Mrs. Reuter is at liberty on her own recognizance.  Trial set by Superior Judge M. A. Breckinridge. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/370268034/?match=1&terms=Corinne%20de%20Briou 14 Oct 1934, (Hartford Courant)] - "Corinne is Back Again in Hartford"
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882982187/?terms=Reuter 3 Nov 1912 (Tulsa World)] - recounting of the case and trial, verdict - Guilty. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/33912998/?article=ea0228e7-2974-46da-b955-411aa88f1783&terms=%22Arling%20Schaeffer%22 23 Feb 1943 (The Escanaba Daily Press)] - Death of Arline Schaeffer, last known husband of Jennie Kimball
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/71283869/?match=1&terms=Reuter 15 Dec 1912 (Tulsa World)] - letter of public appeal by Mrs. Reuter. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/883569772/?article=2ef0859b-44d3-424d-9c6b-26fb346711fb&xid=5581&terms=Laura_M-Reuter&_gl=1*g0qskg*_gcl_au*MTIyNTAyMzM5NS4xNzE2MzAzMTYz*_ga*MTE3ODgzMTQ0NC4xNzE2MzAzMTY0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQwLjEuMTcyMDYzODA1MC40My4wLjA.*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*NGQwNmZkNjctZGVhOC00MzhkLWEwMTgtMjA4YTc3NTJmODQ4LjQxLjEuMTcyMDYzODA1MC4wLjAuMA.. 22 Jun 1914 (Tulsa World)] - rumors that Mrs. Reuter has remarried, or intends to, to a "young and good looking" stenographer that has been keeping company with her for several months.  He was away from work on vacation while Mrs. Reuter left the city "for some little time" to visit her children at a boarding house in Fort Smith, Arkansas - she has been staying at the Hotel Tulsa.  She has her home on North Cheyenne on lease for 1 year. 
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/882635189/?match=1&terms=Reuter 23 Jul 1914 (Tulsa Weekly Democrat)] - Mrs. Reuter is married to Charles Roberts 
===Vital Records===
===Vital Records===
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1961/images/31515_204154-00338?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx9557&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=2883500 1856 - Marriage of Mrs. Susan Knight to John F. Bean, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine]
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/424969:2556?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593504983 1904]: Marriage of Charles Reuter and "Mary McKeon" in Chicago
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2511/images/41262_B139118-00043?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=16173879 1862 - Marriage of David Doane of Bangor, Maine, to Rosa Jane Knights of Cumberland County, Maine, daughter of William & Susan].
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/23385:62361 1905]: Birth of "Marcella Dean Reuter" in Peoria, Illinois
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/110897:6606?tid=&pid=&queryId=ae97af34-8a73-48de-99c9-990569b841a5&_phsrc=QFx8850&_phstart=successSource 1878 - Death Index of "Henry deBriou", in New Orleans]
* [https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/8009065 1879 - Marriage of Thomas Flaherty to Rosylpha Jean Doane, daughter of William Knight & Susan Morrison]
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2101/images/41262_b139292-00134?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx9031&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1804 1881 - Death Register of Susan H. Kimball]
* [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2101/images/41262_b139391-00346?pId=99769 1896 - Death Register of Thomas Flaherty in Boston]
* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/14744370:3693?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372593801041 1966 - Social Security Death Index "Corinne Debriou"]

Latest revision as of 06:59, 21 July 2024

Overview[edit]

Locations[edit]

  • 220 Wisconsin Ave, Peoria, Illinois - home of Charles with his first wife Mina, she kept it in the divorce.
  • 624 N. Boston Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of Guy McKenzie
  • 625 N. Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of Charles Reuter, murder location
  • 630 N. Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma - home of H. W. Stover where Mrs. Reuter spent the night after the murder

People[edit]

Name (Born-Died) Description
Baker, Joseph "Joe"
Bellew, Grover "Bud" Chauffeur of McKenzie
Biddison, A. J. attorney for Mrs. Reuter, telephone Mrs. Reuter to bring her to court
Biddison, Valjean attorney for Mrs. Reuter
Breckinridge, M. A. Superior Court Judge
Brodie, Dr. Attended Mrs. Reuter and the murder
Bruner, Billy "an Indian", traded with McKenzie for a revolver owned by Reuter
Campbell, H. M. attorney for the defense.
Charlton, J. R. attorney for Guy McKenzie
Chilcot, E. J. witness for the defense, was playing cards with McKenzie
Cleveland, C. H. prominent banker, witness
Crittendon, Tom witness, McKenzie stayed with him the night of the murder
Crossland, Ed Assistant to the County attorney
Egan, Ed Detective
Friddle, W. M. boarder at Main Hotel in Skiatook, witness for defence.
Godwin, Bedford witness, refuses to talk, committed to the County jail May 15
Grosshart, Dr. Ross Attended Mrs. Reuter and the murder
Gubser Judge, committed witness Bedford Godwin to jail
Hanson, Charles Assist. Chief of Police, arrested Bellew
Harper, W.E.J. witness, engineer in charge of waterworks construction for McKenzie's wells.
Johnson, Ralph witness, post office clerk
Malloy, Pat County Attorney
McCullough, William Sheriff on the murder case
McKenzie, Guy D. a driller for water
McKenzie, John father of Guy McKenzie "aged bible scholar"
McKenzie, Stella sister to Guy, "warm personal friend" to Laura
Morris, Horra witness and alternative suspect
Parkhurst, Mrs. Inez witness
Pence, L. B. Administrator of the estate of Charles Reuter
Ramsdale, Benjamin F.
Raver, G. T. witness, property of Main hotel in Skiatook.
Reuter, Charles T. 1869-1912 The victim. A prominent lawyer and defense attorney
Reuter, John Charles 1909-? son of Charles and Laura, age 3
Reuter, Laura M. 1885-? Wife of Charles Reuter, and suspect
Reuter, Marcella Deener 1905-? daughter of Charles and Laura, age 7
Ross, W. witness for the defense, was playing cards with McKenzie
Rossland, Ed Assistant County Attorney, acting in the absence of County Attorney Malloy
Slack, John J. Heard the preliminary hearing against McKenzie, Bellew, and Baker
Stover, Hal W. Neighbor where Mrs. Reuter spent the night
Welsh, Manuel witness for the prosecution
Yoder, Ed Chief of Police

Documentation[edit]

Burials[edit]

  • Find-a-Grave: Charles T. Reuter (1869-1912), in Peoria, Illinois

Census Records[edit]

Court Records[edit]

  • 1912-1914: Probate of Charles T. Reuter, #1203 (114 pages); Laura M. Reuter petitions for a settlement and partition of the estate. Commissioners W. A. Brownlee, G. N. Wright, and W. P. Moore are appointed to view and appraise the estate. Mrs. Reuter is allowed $40 per month for the maintenance of herself and the children during the process of the settlement of the estate (6 Jun 1912). They find that four parcels of real estate are worth a total value of $7050. The judge finds that Mrs. Reuter and the two children each hold a one-third interest in the estate. Pence receives $359.19 in commission and expenses as administrator of the estate.
    • Testimony of Mrs. Reuter: marriage date, births of children.
    • Undertakers Receipt: Mewbray Undertaking Co, $247 for casket, hearse, ambulance, shaving, embalming, and permit.
    • Rolls File: Note on male child, 1/16 degree Cherokee, in probate by mistake? #1143, age 11 when enrolled 1 Sep 1902, Census Card #370
    • Receipt: adenoid operation (tonsils) for Johnie, $25
    • Accounting: Allowances, Advancements and Taxes for Laura Reuter, total $1185.29

Newspaper Articles[edit]

  • 3 Feb 1899 (Freeport Daily Bulletin) - How Charles Reuter moved from being a barber to a lawyer
  • 10 Jul 1903 (Weekly Pantagraph) - Charles make new record for clearing 150 judgements in half a day as a township judge in Peoria.
  • 8 Nov 1904 (The Inter Ocean) - marriage license for "Charles Renter" of Peoria, Ill (35) and Mary McKeon (20)
  • 24 Feb 1907 (Tulsa World) - Charles T. Reuter returns to Peoria after a few days stay in Tulsa, he will come back with his family and practice law.
  • 26 Apr 1907 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles Reuter purchases his residence on North Cheyenne Ave.
  • 13 Nov 1907 (Tulsa World) - Charles has two greyhounds
  • 21 Nov 1907 (Collinsville News) - Charles is attorney for Olive Oil Company of Tulsa, with great confidence in the "Baker oil field"
  • 25 Nov 1908 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is elected 2nd Vice-President of the new "Jefferson-Jackson Club" in Tulsa
  • 5 Dec 1908 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is elected Secretary of the North West Improvement Association of Tulsa
  • 10 Dec 1908 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles represents Mrs. Cora Tate in divorce, reports that husband is "a habitual drunkard" and physically and verbally abusive to her and the children.
  • 9 Aug 1909 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is acting city attorney, is prosecution in a case against eight gamblers
  • 25 Aug 1909 (Muskogee Daily Phoenix) - Miss Louise Martin, 16, attempts suicide, is office girl to Charles Reuter
  • 21 Dec 1909 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is seriously ill at home with grip and malaria.
  • 21 Jan 1910 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is quickly on the road to recovery from Typhoid Fever.
  • 24 Jan 1910 (Tulsa Tribune) - further recovery from typhoid fever, but leaking much weaker than before.
  • 29 Mar 1910 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles represents the city in a case of patrolman Grant Pilkington against C. P. Kline and son who slashed Pilkington across the cheek with a knife (held by the elder), the Kline's filed a counter suit for a receiving a head wound by an officer or officers on the way to the police station.
  • 7 Jul 1910 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles is assaulted by James Pilkington (brother of Grant Pilkington), proprietor of a grocery store after Reuter caused the grocery store to be attached for an alleged debt.
  • 11 Mar 1911 (Tulsa Tribune) - Charles files to be on the ballot for Mayor of Tulsa.
  • 5 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - First local article, Charles T. Reuter killed by a robber, wife distraught.
  • 6 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune) - "No Kisses from Her Lips", "I Knew It Was Coming to Papa"
  • 7 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - Two Arrests - Bellew and McKenzie
  • 8 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - a representative of The World went to Skiatook and procured evidence that seems to prove McKenzie innocent.
  • 8 May 1912 (The Oklahoma News) - additional witness says, a few hours after the murders were committed, he saw a car that may have been the burglars going at a high rate of speed, that they may be hiding in the Osage hills.
  • 9 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - little progress
  • 9 May 1912 (Oklahoma News) - diagram of the house and photo included
  • 10 May 1912 (Daily News and Star) - Joe Baker is also arrested, kept in a separate cell. Prosecution claims they have a witness, Mr. Welsh, that will testify that he saw the McKenzie automobile in Tulsa between 1 and 2 AM, and that another witness will testify he got up to have a took pulled at 3 am in Skiatook and saw Bellew and Baker there.
  • 12 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - Preliminary trial will start the next morning; state will base their case on conspiracy. Hearing will be before John J. Slack in the county courthouse.
  • 14 May 1912 (Daily News & Star) - hearing is postponed, McKenzie pleads not guilty.
  • 15 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - Bedford Godwin, 1107 E First St, is committed to jail for refusing for refusing to speak on the case.
  • 16 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune) - Mrs. Reuter is also charged - along with Guy McKenzie, Grover Bellew, and Joe Baker - in the murder of her husband. First witness testimony is heard. Dr. Grosshart, Mr. Stover, Mrs. Brownlee.
  • 17 May 1912 (Tulsa Tribune) - additional testimony; Manuel Welsh
  • 18 May 1912 (Tulsa World) - "Several links were formed in the state's chain on the theory that the four defendants conspired to murder Charles T. Reuter, so that McKenzie's alleged intimacy with Mrs. Reuter would be undisturbed. The state alleges that McKenzie and Mrs. Reuter planned the murder, hired Joe Baker, and ex-jail bird, to do the actual killing, and that Bud Bellew helped perform the deed." Reiterates what was written in Tribune the day before.
  • 19 May 1912 (Tulsa World) -
  • 20 Sep 1912 (Washington County Sentinel and the Weekly Enterprise) - Trial of Guy D. McKenzie, Mrs. Laura M. Reuter, Bud Bellew, and Joe Baker is set for 5 Oct 1912 according to the plans of County Attorney Malloy. McKenzie, Baker, and Bellew are in County jail while Mrs. Reuter is at liberty on her own recognizance. Trial set by Superior Judge M. A. Breckinridge.
  • 3 Nov 1912 (Tulsa World) - recounting of the case and trial, verdict - Guilty.
  • 15 Dec 1912 (Tulsa World) - letter of public appeal by Mrs. Reuter.
  • 22 Jun 1914 (Tulsa World) - rumors that Mrs. Reuter has remarried, or intends to, to a "young and good looking" stenographer that has been keeping company with her for several months. He was away from work on vacation while Mrs. Reuter left the city "for some little time" to visit her children at a boarding house in Fort Smith, Arkansas - she has been staying at the Hotel Tulsa. She has her home on North Cheyenne on lease for 1 year.
  • 23 Jul 1914 (Tulsa Weekly Democrat) - Mrs. Reuter is married to Charles Roberts

Vital Records[edit]

  • 1904: Marriage of Charles Reuter and "Mary McKeon" in Chicago
  • 1905: Birth of "Marcella Dean Reuter" in Peoria, Illinois
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