Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Lowell Owens, 1925
Wednesday, 10 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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OWENS, LOWELL
(3 Dec 1925, Sayre Journal, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
J. A. Lucas of Elk City, charged with murder in connection with selling 
whiskey that caused the death of Lowell Owens on October 31, was bound 
over to the next term of district court without bond by County Judge H. C. 
Hubbard in the continued preliminary hearing Monday at Cordell.
Lucas has filed a habeas corpus petition and it was heard by District 
Judge E. L. Mitchell on December 3.  Dr. B. W. Baker, who made an 
examination of Owens soon after his death, and Phil Ashby, state chemist 
who made an analysis of the whiskey alleged to have killed the 18-year old 
Texas youth testified during the last Monday's hearing.
The chemist's analysis showed that the whiskey contained 31.88 per cent 
alcohol, or 5.1 absolute alcohol per pint.  A fatal dose for an adult is 
from 2.5 to 5 ounces, doctors say, and Owens is said to have taken over 
a pint of the whiskey in a very short space of time.
County Attorney Clearman of this city assisted the state in the preliminary 
hearing. 

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