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k OD VO ew we. 5 4 iene sate tit ta, Hoover, Page #3. secured bond in the amount of $25,000.00, due to the fact that at the. habeas corpus held he brought forth some witnesses that swore to having been with Katherine Cole, one of the witnesses in the preliminary, at & tent show in Fairfax the night that anna Brown was Killed and toast - it would nave been, therefore, impossible for Hatherine Cole to have ’ been out with Kelsey Morrison and Bryan Burkhart when they killed anna Brown. We have since been able to find out that there was no tent show on the night that these witnesses claimed to have Attended one in Pairfaz the month that Anna Brown was Killed, the month before or the month after~ wards. If we could have been able to use Kelsey Morrisonts testicony in the preliminary hearing of Bryan Burknart, I believe that he would have been held without bond. Since he is released on bond-I am told, accord- ing to the laws of Oxlahoma , that he cannot bea retoanfined without bond, eee ve secured Morrison's confession seversl days after Sryan Burkhart was allowed bond. Morrison has recently testified for the state in the case of Ernest Burkhart. The state suthorities are anxious for Hale and Ramsey and probably both of the Burkharts to be tried in Federal Gourt, trying Hale, Ramsey, and Ernest Burkhart for the xliling of Henry Roan and Bryan Burdnart for ths Killing of anna Brown. The Hale and Ramsey case for their part in the Killing of 7. E. Smith will be passed until we get a chance to try them in Federal Court for the willing of Henry Roan; elso, Bryan Burknart's case is to be passed up by the State for any Federal action that might be had against him for the Killing of Anna grown, I had 4 long conference yesterday with U. &. Attorney Roy St. Lewis of Oxlahoma Oity and we went over the case of the Henry Roan Killing thoroughly ani decided that probably the case would be in catter shape if it were passed for trial at the fall term of Federal Court. at the time that Judge Cotteral held the Government had no jurisdiction, we had the ease in perfect shapes and had Ernest Burshart in such shape that J am positive that he would have testified in Federal Court, but at this time if wa want to trial with Hale and Zamsey, we would have ta use the testimony of Matt Villiams to connect up 311] Hale wita the Roam Hilling. Williams, as you w111l probably recall from the reading of previcus re- te, had conversations with John Ramsey and 3111 Hale in reference to th Henry Soun killing, in which conversations they admitted their par- f t ipation in thls killing, The passing over of this case in Federal Cofrt patil the September term will probably bring about John Ramsey coming’ in and testifying in the Gase, inasmuch as Attorney General Wa0rEee Short of Oklahoma told me before I left Pawhuska that Ramsey's attorney, — who had been employed by some of his friends, nad come to him, Snort, and had made @ proposition in reference to Ramsey testifying in the State Courts, but stated thst he hesitated in doing this dus to the fact ther 61. 7 a Ee egg 86. ome coment: fre, ® F a A ye UBT RPS tee oy acd 60) cite now, Hed. the Government -to dea} yita a end. didnot know whether BRSADBem “RPT oa