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&, " Pome ee 5 * S Bepariment of Justice | ‘8 f Bureat of Hnvestination eR P. 0. Box 1535, Boot! Oklahoma Gity, Oklahoma, 13° dune 5, 1926. ld . l ! 16 . ; L 17 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director, i pe Bureau of Investigation, a 2 ; i oa - Department of Justice, co, * ee : Washington, D.C. 37 ; 22 Dear Sir: _ PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL. : DR : 24 I hsve just this minute received your personal and a4 25 confidential letter in reference to my advising you as to tne Be 26 status of the Osage Indian Murder cases, as requebted in your . 27 telegram of June ist. > i Re : 29 ~ Till state in this connection that 1 am very sorry : "30 indeed if I caused you any embarrassment by delaying the trans~ re ai mission of this information te you and it was far from my inten- 32 tion to embarrass you in any way in this or any other case which 32 I am handling. 34 i 25 . The princip&l reason wny I dic not telegraph you : 36 from Pawhuska was that in my hurried departuré from Oxlehom City i AT, to Pawhuska I failed to taxes my code book with me and, having no 38° code boox to transmit a telegram to you, I did not think it advis- } 49 able to send the information in an open telegram, nor did I think b- Fe it advisable to call you over the telephone. I imew when your tel~ Be ai egram came on June lst that I was to return to the Oklahoma City é2 office in the next day or so and I thought I could delay the matter -_ re until my return. Upon my return to the office on June ord, = sent ee 44 you the following telegram in reference to these cases which 1 trust ia sovered the matter to your satisfaction: 46 47? "Just returned to Oklahoma City from Pawhusxa where have 4a been attending trial Ernest Burkhart which is still in : AY progress with excellent chances for conviction. Lost we ; 50 can féar for is a hung jury. Do not expect Hale and * SL _- Ramsey trials to follow Surkhart's in State courts and Soe ae will be passed pending Federai action. Bryan gurxhart -, PiRRS | { was arrested and had preliminary hearing, held without e Ray ne i me - bond for killing Anna Brown, but upon . habeas corpus Was ~ . ES a Sp YUNG gg | 5... at : pee tess “ 4 a ee a pai ae