Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — SMITH WILL BE FREED [ARTICLE]

SMITH WILL BE FREED

Mission Worker in Cincinnati Probably Innocent of Wife Murder. Cincinnati, June 9. < — Prosecutor Hunt intends to nolle the indictment against Oliver P. Smith, charged with the murder of his wife, a mission worker. Mrs. Smith was found dead tn her home here on the night of Jan. 25. She had been beaten to death. Smith was arrested at Indianapolis. He offered an alibi and a number of persons living between Aurora, Indiana, and Indianapolis, testified they saw him on the road between the two cities at the time his wife was supposed to have been murdered.