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Osage Indian Murders — Part 5
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woke me when he came in the follow morning about —
Mout 11 A. M. the same day, when Kirby got up, Kirby
me that it was a dandy job: that they heard her exploda*
z were about seven or eight miles away. - The followia ;
a teiwo, days later John Ransey_ came to our house in revo
Ly abd shortly after Ramsey arrived, Dook Hawkins came inte -
s e house ,. and Ramsey told Kirby and Hawkins, in my -presence,.
Bt! they done a good job - that they had killed two of then, ;
th’s wife and servant girl, and blowed Smith's privates off
, ag. an the hospital and wouad be gone in @ day or toe:
res “later Kirby and myself went to Grammer's to get .
stey, “ana While at Grammer's, Asa Kirby and Granmer .
“down to. Grammer’s barn and had a long telk. When Kirby -
a bask to -whare TI Was, he wadiA hea wonldA he vasdgy ta on
aw ee 2h OS we ey wy Bw -
BB -go0on as Grammer gave him: some money. irby walked to
Grau er'a- back oor end Granmer handed Kirbj}..a big roll of --
= We thet returmed to our house at ilebb City, and Dock
came ~ into our house. Kirby then took the roll of
om * his pocket and counted out $500 | to Hawkins, and
awikins: that’ they would get the rest of it if smith died.
bone two" days later John Ramsey called at our house and told «©. .
Asa Kirby that Smith was dead and he, Kirby, would get the
rest of his moneys
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"on Febs 11, 1926, Roy D. Sherrill, convict in Federal OEE
enit pntiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, was "interviewed and stated a
} oe: 8g follows:
give That. ‘in the winter of 1923, to be exact during Jamary, —
yoi¢ February and the first part of March, 1923, he, Sherrill, was |
a1. pmo and around Henry Granmer's place in Osage County, Cklahoma, =
M42. gene on a number of occasions met and talked with Johx. Ramsey,”
443 .° Who was also around there. That sometime during February, 1523,
aac y he, Sherrill, drove with John Ramsey from Grammer's place to o
e 45” . Fairfax and while in Fairfax, Ramsey Was Looking at an auto .
46: a “with the view of purchasing it, but did not do soy that from -
445. Fairfax he, Sherrill, and Ransey drove over near Graynorse to
the home of W. E. Smith (this was before Smith moved to Fairfax) ~
23, and as they were going by Smith's house, Ramsey said to Sherrill
2469 ~ in:gubspance that there was someone lived in that house that
7 a they wanted taken~care of and that there is a nice piece of
‘money # it. Ramsey went ahead and told Sherrill. that all
ul be to .do to bump them off would be get a can of
=a wn mee ~ ee ee | meted Oe ee
1, 86% it near the house and light afuse; that they
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