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aoe tame THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT Qklahoma Ci REPORT MADE AT: DATE WHEN MADE: PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE: REPORT MADE BY: | Oklahoma City, Okla, | G=@3-28 Bl to 19-28 J. Re Burger ; TITLE: CHARACTER OF CASE: W. EK. (BILL) HALE ‘Yiarder Osage Indians (0. G. #70-1) SYNOPSIS or FACTS: - : Mrs. Myra (Curly) Johnson, Ripley, Oklse., stated Henry “4-5, 5 Mays, Chas, Johnson and J. 1, Howard, Attorney for an defense, had told her if she would testify her husband killed Henry Roan she would not have to work any more and just name her price, Hattie Paul, Fairfax, Okla, | alleged to have written two letters to Mary Roan while { latter was confined in Enid, Okla, jail three years ago } demanding money or she would tell what she knew; this matter being investigated, Ed Egan, Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, stated he had overheard two prison- ers say that Bill Hale would beat case by fixing Earnest Burkhart through his attorney. Deway Selph, Federal Peni- | tentiary, Lea vanworta, Kansas, fixed dates of conversation | With Hale by tine he Fead not ice in hewepaper of Henry . Roan being found dead in Sol Smith's pasture near Fairfax, is car Okla, John Mayo, Kansas State Prison, Lansing, Kansas, ey stated Curly Johnson was at Whiz Bang, Okla. in month of | ey Jamary, 1925, and gambling in oil fields, Further efforts ..<--* peing mde to establish whereabouts of Curly Johnson during month of January, 1923. Conference had with ¥, J, Blake, 8.4.C., J. M. Goldesberry, U. 6, Attorney, fulsa, Okla., 7, J. Leahy, Special U. &. Attorney General, Colorado Snrince. with reference to further investicatian in this we herp See 2 eee ee See wer FT Se ee wee case end preparation for trial, DETAILS: PENDING, REFERENCE: Report of this Agent dated aAngust 2, 1926, DETAILSs wWRS, MYRA (CURLY) JOHNSON, Route $1, Box 8, Ripley, Okla., stated that while she lived at Kansas City, Missouri, short time before Hale trial at Ok) ahoma City, Henry Mays and Charlie Johneon came to her home and told her if ahe would toati- DO NOT WRITE [N THESE SFACES an ct APPROVED : RECORDED AND INDEXED: FORWAR 4 sSPECIAL AGENT f> to IN CHARGE —_ 3 = Ce i) . BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHECKED OFF; COPIES OF THIS oe FUR ED TO: 5-Bur eau AM 1-U. S, Attorney, Oklehoma City AUS 27 492% [akexetess 1-0. S. Attorney, T2186 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ~ lyam, J. Leahy, Spec. Ase't., to Atty Geni, UTED ars a l-Edwin Brown, Spec, Asstt, to Atty, Genl, Oils a Ov PRN IeE! PiLENy NO ONNICE ER: