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Osage Indian Murders — Part 20
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rf One fternoon ‘there was a ran” sand’ wonsn ‘end arttie gist th at Wome
ah fr door of the county jail and Diek Conner refused to let th
"ta and told them to go to the side door and so they went to the side a ar
and Dick Conner let them in, and they came back and talked to W. F. Hale.
prtvately for thirty or forty minutes and when they were gone, Bill Hale .
* told me that this fellow was a good friend of his and be had him ty coms. .
Sup fran ‘O14 Nexicoj that he would: make hima. good witness; said he was t
she. silver, mining _jmainess own, ghee, ‘put, did not tell me pis ps 3 Re
“7 Was & Uight ‘completted fellow rand Fisudge he myst “have “peed. ador tet, rh}
Sve or forty years’old; weight abot 150 pounfis' aga about five: feet" n
y.“dnches tall. The wanen was a small, slim woman and would weigh about, one
an “hundred and twenty pounds, and the little girl locked to be about ; oleae
os” or tan years old, _ ee
8 Boca ., J. sew Hale hand ‘money to ‘John Henderson and Dick Céiner on Berrorent,
Re ae ‘ Vgacasions and Halé told me thatthe information he was getting” and He work
. » he was getting fone, by: and; from. the -Jetlors » wae. .conting him PLOAEYs. bat 1k.
7 4. bo yas. worth, the money ; ee ? . "eg wee
p co TOE * Bin Hale told me he sent Dick Comer ‘to ac some work tor ‘tin, to 366.”
a fellow, but did not tell me nis name, and that someoné saw him and
snitebed on him, and accused him of being his, aie 's, atool-pigeon, aaa
_ Demsey tol4 him he would heave to lock him up for a few days until it blew.
Six’ :.over, and be told me ebout sone house or street where he went..him, tw4.I
PR Se ok t remember - ‘either. the: house number or street; Dick, Conner Sold Blil
ae aa meen din. a Jagk-pot,
+
ee ts. “that Dioik i ot’ Deueey pecdsea: "gn
am ba thet neta
a, 2 ae . -of ? aaitohing oa Disk Conner wi hash th reference ww vem WU ast - oe
a ° Dre ‘not be. positive: ofthis man’s pame, but I ‘asked Hale who Smiths 2b
@@:: * Tend if he was an execonviat or something and Hale never did tell a wg
oa wos. very day, Hale was let out of his cell at about 9 o'clock iu tha =
cy. (46 morning and was not let back until 12 or 1 o'clock at night, with the ex.
a7. caption of sometimes when they would put him in about the noon hour, letting { .
#8 him stay an hour or so and then let him out again, and on other occasiona, - oe
49 = 2=-~—s when they would see someone coming -into the jail, they would put nim into . - by
40 his cell until they would leave and then let him out aguin. He was always © ¢
51 allowed the privileges of the jail when he vant«° them, to go where he
ased and was, permitted to use the telephone at nis pleasures oa One. fa
I remember a man came to the Ja. that somsore said was 4 fede
and whea ‘they saw him doming, they ‘put Hale in the beck pact of.
tee Hie the Jaillors, slegp. and when this ‘man left. they brought hig ‘dae
Serr
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5 7 "s ee Leas 2 ee 9, Fe atta S - aa aa 3 a abe ws 6, oe te
: Bs _ The above statement is made tree ‘end volunterily of ny own, free will -
59 end accord without any promise of Smutty or 10376 for revard, — ;
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