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The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 4, 1907
page 1

Crime At Edmond
Cow Shed The Scene of Murder
C. A. Murphy of Edmond Shot While Milking His Cow
Lad has disappeared, Murphy's Team Horses is also Missing.

Finding of the body of A. C. Murphy in a cowshed with a bullet hole through his head and his body trampled by a cow disclosed a ghastly tragedy at Edmond yesterday morning and Deputy Sheriff Mike Casey was summoned from this city yesterday to take up the trail of the suspected murderer.

While the body of the murdered man was discovered yesterday morning by a neighbor, it is believed that he was killed the previous evening at about 6 o'clock, the time he usually went to the shed to milk the cow.

The fatal shot, it is thought, was fired from a rifle, the ball entering Murphy's jaw and coming out at the top of his head.

Suspicion points strongly toward a sixteen year old boy who has been employed by Murphy but who has disappeared. The boy came to Edmond from Chickasaw. Simultaneous with his going was noted the disappearance of a team of horses and some bed clothing that belonged to his employer.

James West, the neighbor who discovered Murphy's body, stated that the man had doubtless lain in the cowshed all night, the body being bruised and covered with mud as though the cow had trampled it during the night. 

Coroner Shaeffer was also summoned to Edmond last evening and will conduct an inquest.

January 4, 1907, page 5
another small article 

January 5, 1907, page 9

Youngblood Is Tracked
Sheriff's Deputy Trailing Boy Accused of the Murder At Edmond
Stops Over Night At Farm House and Leaves Target Rifle to Pay for Lodging.

Deputies from Sheriff Garrison's office are hot on the trail of Newton Youngblood, the sixteen year old boy who is charged with Killing O. P. Murphy, a prominent farmer living near Edmond.

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January 6, 1907, page 1

Boy Homicide Now In Jail
Roy Youngblood Captured at Anadarko and Confesses Murphy Murder

Newton Youngblood, the youthful murdered of O. P. Murphy at Edmond, was brought to Oklahoma City jail last night and placed in the county jail... 

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January 9, 1907, page 5

Body Being Held
The body of O. P. Murphy, the Edmond farmer, who was killed last week is at Edmond awaiting the arrival of a son of the murdered man, who is on his way from Oregon.

Youngblood Case
Newt Youngblood, the accused slayer of O. P. Murphy at Edmond, will have his preliminary trial before Justice Swick next Monday. His father was here from Chickasaw yesterday and employed Col. J. W. Johnson to defend the boy in the preliminary trial. Mr. Youngblood returned to his home last night.

January 6, 1907, page 1

Newt Youngblood, the youthful murder of O. P. Murphy at Edmond, was brought to Oklahoma City last night and placed in the county jail by Deputy Sheriff Mike Casey.

The boy, who says he is seventeen years of age, drove into Anadarko at a late hour Friday night and put up at a feed yard, where he was shortly afterward arrested by James Schrader, a deputy sheriff of Caddo county.

... When arrested he broke down and confessed the crime, but declared that in a quarrel between him and Murphy, Thursday evening, the later rushed at him with a knife and that he fired the fatal shot in self defense...

Youngblood stated to his captors that Murphy had frequently mistreated him....

April 10, 1907, page 12

Indictments are returned...

Indictments returned Monday were against Newt Youngblood, Joe Brazier and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Smith of Choctaw. These persons have been arrested.

Youngblood is charged with the murder of O. P. Murphy, a farmer living near Edmond. He was employed by Murphy and it is charged that he shot the farmer with the latter's own gun while his victim was milking.