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Osage Indian Murders — Part 25

58 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Murder · Topic: Osage Indian Murders · 57 pages OCR'd
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= 10 - 4 Just prior to the tavesticstion of the Osage Indian Merder Case by the United States Bureau of Investigation, two dczen Osage Indians died under suspicious cireunstances, and the entire Osage Indian Tribe, Ge Well as the white citizens of that locality, were terror stricken and ip fear of their lives. This made the taek of thie Bureau's Agents extrevely diffioult because lav-ebiding eitibens actually feared to con- = Yexoe with them relative to the recest Killings. : MUHKD=R OF ANNA BROEN. anne Brow., divorced dauchter of Lizzie 4, waa murdered on lay 22, 1921, throe silesa fro. the town of Fairfax, on the pasture lands of ¥. K. Bale, in the botton of a amall ravine. Bureau Arents found from inves- tigation that she was murdered by Zelsay Morrison and Bryan Durchart, who head Avt oan Rae tr th Mew Wht ven her to this lonely spot. en Burkhart held her after she LF wywes ory as aa _ = —_—— had dee: gotten into = drunken stupor, whi ie Kelsey Morrison ahot her in the back of the heed with a .52 autontic plete] wich had beer fure nisheé his for this purpose by ». E. Hale « few howre orfor to the ‘netuel murder. These facts were dseploPe’ by confession of Kelsey Morrison himself, who testified to theee facta at the trial of W. K. Bale for marder, and was subetantiated by the confession of his wife, Katherine Cole orrisonu, a full-bicod Oasre Indien. bat Tillie-s, & bootlesger, subsetastiast . t.ese facts also on tue witme « «tend, atetir trot ce sew ber mumiered wile deliverino- w iake: ortere: by oor-isc AG. «wlA.O8rta aus
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