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BM Soh oleae ia es Gs ieee aeRO va NW Ee Ui Boe Se eka de Pees lawns SOV aaah ene Nat eae at PORES Lae: “a tpt Le oor Beaten pean =A AW. KR. HALE, © 4L > Page #6. F. sg ‘the - 2 -BO-2E. es . sone ‘business for Unele Bill Hale that night, and . fe Morrison was going to meet them at the end of the AF sri ge at Ralston. I remember the date quite well, as tha§.y time Anna Brown was last seen alive on Saturday Bight pr the following week when she was Yound murdered. ~ Th or four days after Anne Brown Was found dead, Kelst ¥¥R00 ‘2 ‘saw me at Pawhuska, and told me that Bill Zale had had . im “$0? ‘do’ the worst job he had ever pulled, and that Hale head —.. omfsed him $5000, and had paid him $200 and now refused to pay - athe balance, ‘and that the job was a terrible one; that waile ‘Burkttart was loving Anna Brown, he, Morrison Imocked her ors From behind with a pistol, and she hollowed so loud - OW o much life that he, Morrison, and Bryan Burkhart ed her” "Prom. the car to where She Was "found murdered, and _ aid’ her ‘down and-she still had gome life, and he, Morrism, shot- cher in the back of the head. with a gun. Morrison further stated. . tome “that Katherine Cole was with them on the party for e woile.. t..they 44d let her out of the car before Amma Brom was ~" “Worrison also told me that if Hale did not pay him in Tling Agne Brown, he was going to kill Bill Hale. - ss A te days: ‘Later Hale came to my room ‘at Ralston about three Tolook Je Me, and told me he was afraid that damn sof’ of a bitch .g#¢ Kelele Morrison was going to squeak about the Anna Brown killing,. and asked me if I could help him, Hale, to keep his, Morrison's, : oath shute. I then told Haje I thougnt if he would pay Morrison = .. t would be all right. Hale then asked me to see Morrison, and use ® influence in keeping his mouth shut, and I told Hale I did not ink Morrison could afford to hollow.’ I later saw Morrison and i. what Hale had said to me, anf Morrison said Bale had fim’ some more money, and if he did not pay hin the balance, a. "bump him.off too. pea ae. “Sq asked Hale what he had Anna-BYown bumped off for, and ee : & : a 4 Hale, ‘gaid_ BO Ernest Burkhart's wife would get the Anna "Browa. ae sta Ge “In Jamary, 1923, W. K. (Bill) Hale met me at Ralston, Oxla., pend. told me that he had got some insurance company from denver, 4 44 orado, to insure Henry Roan's life for $25,000 in his, Hale's, 3 te *pavor, ‘that the insurance company at Pawhuska had failed to write $8 Sithe insurance, but he, Hale, had got _by with the Denver Insurance 3: + QOMpBLY. Hale asked me what I thought about John Ramsey, if ae was. i a nt. Hale told me that he, Hale, had arranged with Ramsey. * to bum Roan off; and collect the $25, 600 insurance. I asked Ha . ‘show: hej expected to get by with that kind of stuff, and Hale said 138 bagslet Roan have sone cattle, and he, Hale, could make it ~ yeyevevck. that the insurance was for security on the cattle deal,.