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Gils Ke Halo et al eB Fe Se Sith 602226 5 5 6 thre ‘oe if be did not sien confessions he wu. te murderéd, stating | 9 toh a9t they had previously electrocuted pals of his in’i:. electr’c | ® crair hey pointed out to him, end that they sniffed the air a. ache. nimi «1 he coulgi smell burning fiesh, and used all manners of threats and durtss to 12) get him'te sign a confession, which he wuld not’ do. He stated that ey 13° charged him with the murders of twenty-seven, numbrating many of them, of which 14 he had never heard, and further charging him with a conspiracy with prominent ‘5S pusiness men of Csage County in the handling of "hot" bonds, atc.; that he 16 stoutly denied his guilt at oll times. ne Kelsie Morrison, charged jointly with Byron Burkhart for the murder f 4dnna Brown, testified in the trial of thea State of Oklanom vs Ernest urkhart that be shot 4nna 3rown in the head while Byron 3urkhart held her 31 Sar that the gun which he used was furnisned hin by We vbw Hele, and she was bee killed at the instigation of Hale. 24 The Court forced the State, in the absence oc? the Jury, to or. .at 25 prodf that allegations made by defendant Ernest Burkhart and Hale's avtorueys, 26 ‘to the fact that duress and coercion had been used in the obtaining of 2 confessions regarding the murders of ‘7, E. Smith, Henry Roan et al, and R--'this proceedins consumed five days before the Jury was permitted to heir the 49 direct evidence. 31 The Court, after accepting Emest Burkhart's ples of Guilty for the 32 murder of 7. E. Smith, set the cases of the State of Ckishoma vs ¥. KE. Hale 32 and John Ramsey for the murdcr of 7. E. Smith for trial on Sept. 20, 1926, 2-4 ain the District Court of Osage County at Pawhusza, Chlehoma, 25 . 3 ATTEMPTED BRIBERY OF ‘VLTWESSES Iv THE TRIeL CF THE StAaTE ig ~ | OF OKLAPCUA VS. ERUEST BURFHART FUR THS MUPDER OF WY. E. SMITH. 39 39 aT TULSA, OKLAHOMA: © _ The following statement was obtained from tirs. vchn leyo, wits of “* Jobn Mayo, an imate of the Lansing Kansas Penitentiary and « matericl =3 State and Government witness in the Osage indian murder cases. 45 "June 13, 1926. Tulsa. 46 My name is Mrs. June liayo, the wife of John tey.. I work te at the Mayo Hotel Coffee Shop as waitress. 49 About the 28th or 29th of April’, 1925, near 8 4... two men 39 came in the Coffea Shop and sit down, The small mn witha on musteche asved me if I was John Mayo's widow. [ told nim f >? that I was John leyo's wife. He tien began sseking me who. f 2° got off duty and wnen i wes not busy, as he wantec to tals ee g to Ima. I told him i got of7 late in the afternoon, but if he , "sé came beck about ten thirty in the mormming I woulda noi be so & a busy. I did not at that tima Imow who either of the men wers. 53 I asked the small man who they were and he told me they 5 Le gone oe wiles BR ae pg RE oe ep me ar ae a ey. toy - a te aad, aia ait sakbuk . Sa ede SRE hata awe Nan RG ie cad net. ee en al? rue , t - woe com. — ar’ se - 7 _* Lor. von i ce rn, Se at nS ’ dos, .,