Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

A HORRIBLE CRIME
Two Boys Outrage and Murder a Little Girl.
CUT HER THROAT
To Prevent Her Telling of the Crime

Perry, Okla., Oct. 3. – Probably the most atrocious murder ever perpetrated in Oklahoma, was committed Thursday evening at 6 o’clock at a point one and one half miles south of Day, a post office fourteen miles southeast of this city. The victim was the thirteen-year-old daughter of Nick Prekash, a German farmer, and the murderers were the sons of two neighboring farmers. The boys, Ive Rogers and Mike Maloy, aged respectively 17 and 14, first ravished the girl and then, when she refused to promise not to tell of their crime they chased her when she tried to run away, caught her and cut her throat from ear to ear.
The girl, Mary Prekash, had been sent on an errand to the home of a neighbor named Katz, living about a mile from her fathers home. On her return she took a cut off leading through some woods in which Rogers and Maloy were hunting. Mike Maloy caught and ravished her and then the two together killed her, cutting her throat with a pocketknife. Returning to their homes they washed the blood from their clothes and made no effort to conceal the crime