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Osage Indian Murders — Part 5

72 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Murder · Topic: Osage Indian Murders · 72 pages OCR'd
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PY ee dt eR en ae te ED Ee tae gt Se as ~ . — . “Be xe Hale,” Al Fy: Page #5. B. 8. Bae Be ; We. H. Aaron, Pawhuska, Okla., wha made the pages ion of Henry Roan "when W. K. Hale secured a $25,000 -» «.. policy on Roan's life in Hale's favor, stated that at he examined Henry Roan for the insurance, W. K. Hale Wag: ffice, and he, Dr. Aaron, asked Hale "Yow after you get | ORD | policy on Roan, what are you going to Go", and cale TT? ee Fd lee Pe ad him and said, "I'M going to bump him off." .- ee Dewey Selph, who is now in Guthrie jail, stated that: Sonn, ey was confined in fhe Guthrie city jail in the 13 ‘with him, Ramsey told him, Dewey Selph, that he, Ramsey, & nfesaion to the Governnent telling them all about tha. wot Henry Reen; that Ernest Burkhart had "put it on him® .:. ‘ ere was nothing for him.to do but tell the truth and teil “O'S ” Roy D. Snérrili, ros Woof Dewey Selph. So Te Pebruary 13, 1926, the Grand Jury returned true bana No. 728 against W. Ke Hale. ‘and John Ramsey, charging them with . emer’ murder of Henry Roan, an Osage Indian. Ce or wn To eae "on February 14, 1926, Matt M. Williams, Pawhuska, 0 Okle., a HAlsigol owing statement to Agents J. K. Burger, J. ¥. + MOEpNY ; : He. “Barker: . , io He Mg” ‘name is Matt M. Williams. I now reside at ‘Parhuske, Oxia. » : er was born in Sigourney, Iowa, May 21, 1877. I came to the State az! ‘of Oklahoma in the year 1891 and gettied at Ralston, Oklae, in the’ (43 <"Spring of 1694, where I resided until about thirteen years ago, when I went to Pewhuska, Okla., and have since lived there except for ok taan manthea while I was at Denver Colorads. Cee EP ee et “9 SF ee oe ee reson MLW LE Ly VELL ec" poping the time I lived at Ralston and Pawhuska, Okla., I whet 9 pecans well acausinted with W. K. Hale, in fact had business deal. 193 “ings with hin and was closely associated with him for the past ro “the year 1921, in the month of May, I think abot the 1 L7t Bryan Burkhart and Anna Brown came to my room over the.: tional Bank, Ralston, Okla., and Bryan Burkhart bought: fréa Wheeler two quarts of whiskey, and paid thealer § $1500 r apne. a | Bryan Burkhart at that time remarked that he ned. to -
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