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Osage Indian Murders — Part 5
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« i then told Hale that I thought
60, and in a short time Roan was f
f the head, near Fairtex, Okla.
e days after Roan was found I met John Ramsey at Mike.”
ond Ll at Fairfax, Okla., and Ramsey told me about kiliiz
fenry. ‘Roan, where he was found shot; that he, Ramsey, had do
yas Hale tola him to do, that he had told Roan to meet him out
bhexre: @lone,to get some whiskey, and when Roan met him he, Ramsey,
penod.- thesgide door of the car ang shot Roan in the back of tha *
hile - be, Roen, wes in the car. and that Hale hed promised F
FOODS: that Hale had only paid him $500 and given him a |
SPORI S.- and” he,‘ Ramsey, asked me to help him prevail on Hale
o pay: ‘the balance: of the money. I afterwards talked to Hale.
b about: the balance ‘of the money due Ramsey for killing Roan, and -
Pioaee ‘toid me that he had told Ramsey he would pay him the balance:
; ‘hecollected the insurance, and thatYwas 8 the “toon. he,
ie bed. had eth "Ramsey for the killing of Henry doan.
mS ok
1 Oesge’ ‘county, fron the Road Overseer to-the “top, and he wag
t from: prosecution for the murders and‘ the Roan insurance
“polioy. ‘I then told Hale that he had better be carefal about: .-.
“palling off jobs on restricted Indian jands, and Hale told me he
had taiked to his lawy: ers abont Government Jtrisdiction, and Halse o
24 yernad te his lewyers had toid him that the Government had no juris-~
32... diction, and he was in the clear so far as the Government was
. soncernets _
Sa aye read. this statement, which is true and correct, and .
atedd voluntarily, of my own "tree will, without threat or oe
ae fise-of any kind, first being advised by Je Re Burger that ...0°5 “y:
<_ the Same would be ‘aged as evidence in the prosecution of the
e, : Osage, iniian murder CASES.
: Ae (Signed) MATT M. WILLIAMS. «= RT
* "qimnosoos: ae ; ; a
EB. H. PARKER,
J. V. MURPHY,
| GRIMES; Jr.
t—4P. Alt «a ies 1+
Pebruary 17th, 1926, at Fairfax, Okla., George Bolt
Shak Hefty Ward, hoth of Fairfax, stated to agent C. R. Davis, t
-,, dust bdgfo re the murder of Henry "Roan, they saw W K. Hale and JonR
R iding around Fairfax together in Ramsey" 8 new ord roadst Pe a
aterapaeames = vetnenrtt niente ae ed
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