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(Sallisaw, Oklahoma, June 1)
Theodore KECK, 19 years old, Monday night was placed under a charge of murder by Sequoyah County Attorney PITCHFORD following the fatal shooting of Joe BARKE, nearby farmer, early Sunday morning, two miles east of KECK's farm house.
"I flatly refuse to recommend bail for KECK," PITCHFORD said Monday night, "because human life has been valued so cheaply in this county. Murderers can prepare to a siege in the jails of this county."
KECK, according to his own confession to officers, shot and killed BARKE on the Sallisaw-Vian highway after a heated quarrel between the two men.
KECK said he refused to go to the dance and enraged BARKE at the suggestion of turning homeward. When BARKE, angered at the proposal, KECK went to his home, secured a shot gun, returned to the scene of the quarrel and fired a full charge of shot into BARKE's head.
Preliminary hearing was set for Friday morning at Vian, before Justice W.T. MOSS.
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