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Osage Indian Murders — Part 11

77 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Murder · Topic: Osage Indian Murders · 76 pages OCR'd
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a a Oe wor aw | ath *.* acd owe = A bw od OF ed od Bt mow cab ted Al A Rat heb a OP a ee toe A SF ete os oe de dae ta He J eed. = Ow a A ot a te Pee oe ww ee eu Re Lay wl dt ayt wD Os 4 COR un fl wt +6 an an? 4 : Director, - Page #3, ( | ~ that th@ dates were not as he gave them erd what ne testified to about the un= + __ load in¢gof the cattle at the Nemry Cornett place and the haniling of it beimg) " about J@muary 27th; thut it did not happen et taat time. ‘Ye vere unable to vs gat car iRowe down ta face the Grand Jury or be ouestioned by us, He ¢ume i here to Oxlahoma City but left the same night that he arrived and we coulda not afterwards locate him, while the Grand Jury was in s@ssion, 4t Ponca ity where he works. ; . We interviewed Mrs, nm, Gurley “Johnson is the man whom the defense attempted to prove th at the instance of Roysunch. She bas given us -inftgrmiion fast I be lieve we Will be able to prove that_Curle\onuson was not. in and 2round where cornett =| and the Hows brothers claimed he wes in Jomary, 1923, but waa in De hova, Oklahoma working, This information we are followings out now rnd 7 ic’. for good results, hrs. Johnson geve us & good deal of initormation with ro lvreues to one Henry Mejors end another party coming to her and*attempting to ,ive her $600.00, if she would come down to Guthrie and make them 4 witness, stuting to Vase AanA mA ae? aeons ane gouldn't hort him and she ran five Bae OO AUS. fre Myral 4 onmecon. Girley aeceeaere at pac { 2 I rome. ‘zp +, aor net war Ae WES GoaG STs G2 Co ae gy ew ke ‘ag well make herself $600.00. This she flatly and imdirnuntly refusc io do and chased then away from har pleca, She arrived in Ox<lahoma City toc late to testify before the Grand Jury. Host of wh:t she nud to say was coverec in Agent Gnith's report that went to you October 4th. The party that we had in mind that was to sweur he saw Hercy Roan and John Ramsey together out in Sol Smith's pugture scout twe veeks berore Kenry: Roan's body was found is » man by the name om¥Newton, and he lives in Houiny, | _,vclahoma, We had him subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury, but ue arriv= ‘ed too late to get in before the Grand Jury. We did not question him ot that time on a¢cdumt of thinking it would be more productive of results if wea would ‘have this min handled by one Jim Rhodes, wno is a former officer in Poirfax and a witness for the Government in the Henry Roan case, snd very friendly ani wile ling to talk to Newton. Waevton, so Rhodes states, tole tno of his Primes . sonfidence of seeing Ramsey and Roan togetner. Im order to set this iroorm.- tion out of him we want to get these three parties together and I believe that we can ret the information. If we should go to him and would get nim committed to & false statement, it would wi pretty difficult matter to put him straignt. A man by the name of¥Berea ani his wife testified at the irial up at Guthrie of seeing a car come throvigh by Sol Smith's ranch-nouse about 4 weex or ten days before Hanry Roan's bedy was found and furtner testified tani 2 dey or two thereafter they sav this car in the canyon thet wes ell@ec to n.ve becn the on@ tmt Nem y Boan was found in, Ye had Beree and his wife Gown nere bar fora tis Grand Jury and questioned them 4s to thelr testimony in thie rercra,: They nd state that thay find that they were not correct as to tha det. this car ca through $01 Smith's pasture and stopped st his ranch-houss orn night, that tis was not ten days or two weeks before Henry Rosa's body was found, but as @mitter of fact wags February 3, 1923, mexing it only treo or turee Jeys Len = eel oe ae ~, oe eae)
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