Twin Murder
        Victims' Rites
        On Wednesday

TAHLEQUAH — Services for a Cherokee County couple whose remains were found In shallow graves last week 20 miles northwest of Tahlequah were set Monday In Sapulpa for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. An exconvict has been charged with murder In connection with their deaths.

A double funeral will he held in the Sapulpa First Free Will Baptist Church for Mr. anti Mrs. Albert L. Alred who had been missing since July 16. The body of Mrs. Alred, 54, was found last Thursday and her husband's body was found Saturday. He was 51.

Owens Funeral Home, Sapulpa, will he in charge of services for the former Sapulpa couple who moved last June to a farm near where their bodies were found.

Inmate Charged
        Cherokee County Attorney W. W. Miller filed murder charges Monday against Argil "Cooney" Martin, 31, of near Tahlequah, in the deaths. 'Martin already was in jail at Tulsa on a charge of obtaining property under false pretense. Miller said it was hoped Tulsa County officials would release Martin to Cherokee County so he can be arraigned on the murder Charges in a day or two.

Marlin was released early this year from the state penitentiary at McAlester. He had been sentenced to three Years in 1963 for cattle theft in Mayes County. He also went to prison for five years in 1947 for armed robbery in Delaware County.

Suspect Identified
        Officers said Martin had been identified as the man who used identification of Al­bert L. Aired in a July car trade at Tulsa. They said he was carrying papers bearing Alred's name when arrested September 13 in Tulsa.

The Alreds are survived by a daughter, Shirley Sue, 13. Mrs. Alred's mother, Mrs. Louella Miller of Sapulpa. also survives, along with a son of Mrs. Aired, Melvin Crable. Albuquerque, N. M.. and Alred's brother, Paul, of Vancouver, Wash.

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