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W. K. HALE ET AL Page Ve F. S. smith 2/6/82 + a When I took the note to Bill Hale that selsie worrison g2v6e of, cna-ufter I told Hale that I would help put Latherine out oF tus wy, Euktc told me ks would pay me y500. for my part of it; that Lo vou pay half of it before the job was done and he would send a sty to ™e:. ?with the money, and when we done the deal he would pay us the other °$500.00. ; - About the 12th or 15th of Vovember, 1925, Franc Kremer, Bessie ' ‘Rusk, Grace Roen Matteson and I drove in Grace's Buick car from Fau- -, -hushe tonRalston, and got in Ralston about ten or eleven o'clock ~ bhatt night. We drove to the Jonea Hotel and I let Frank ari the “girls out and they took the baggage to the rcoome. I took the cer so the garage across from the Jones Hotel to get the extra tire iinli. The reason We drove to Ralston Was becanse Blli Hale called i aver - the telephone and told me he wanted to sea mee I got the cuit, acd 4 talked to Bill Eagle ftom the Pan™American Cafe, but dale calici ne -gt the Pappan Eotel. When Hale talked to mc svcer the teleprone ne manne £6 ov ; 7 .Where are only two filling stations in Ralevon. “ncn I wert to the -gerace and fillings station to get the extra tire finel Gili Hale Was 2g Mot there, so I waited a while. Finally Cele cone ext he asec me why .g -We came to do him as we dcne. I told Haie I never did see thas otvsr ta: guy that he wes to send to me; thet the guy did not come over to Pai- -: husxea.e Bill Hele then toid me that he thorncnt it would be = foot _+ idea for me to leave that part of the country for a while. I told >g bin all right if he thought co. Hale asked =: if Iwas %raxe, ena I 55 told him I was. EHsle then fave me #100. and told mo to tans tant as 14 'tGHhet was all ke had with hin. Hsle then usksa m2 if i was poling te ” \gtay-in Relston that night, and I told him no, thet i wes guins to 3g leeve right out. Hale told me to be sure anf iscve tie countrys. I .3 G@id not leave that night, but left the next morlizng, With tre tis 0 girls and Fren: Kremer. We went from Ralston, Cxla., to Avi.s. as 7 ;; Gaity, Ean., thei Wichits, Yan., then to Pueb-co, Colo., ther ou dav- 32 to El Paso, Texss. I evayed in El Paso two weeks or sc, an. Left wu. S Paso with Cheriie Choteau for Colorado Syrin 7-3, wheres Charlie wived. + og I stayed with Cnarlie in Colorado Springs twco or three deys, then 4 left for Pawhusra, stopping on my way at ia Junta and Los Animas, Colo. ‘When I got to Syracuse, Kansas, the police picted mé typ thave 47 Where I stayed in Jail until the Department of Justics brought me tu 4g Guthrie, Oklahozs. | ‘sg. . I have read the above statement, end the ssme is correct and tric. 55 | (Signed) Da.icv S2LeH 3: Witnesses: --- 35 “se; EK. H. Parker. 560 ; * i _. Dewey Selph now claims to know nothing acout the Anna Brown rur- . oe 58 : 7 / ® 40 i ED > Ot gt ee en wai __. an a a ae we te ee me “ ~