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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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> itm, -~ill- Henry boar waa @ picturesque full-flood csace Indien, six foet tall, and fine looking specixen . He wore his bair in plaits down Ris pack, and wae on inveterete drunkermi who stayed away from his home for weeks at a time. Williac K, Hale, about a year prior to the murder i of Roan can. John Roan, hed teken ont & Q | Kasey made frienda wit. Roan by means of Roan'sa fondness for whiskey, and too: him out several tines, ostensibly to furnish hin wreiskey, but in reality to mirder hin. Upon each occasion, hansey lost his nerve, but finally persuaded Foan on one of these trips to drive to tha botto: of a eanyon out of aight of the road, and proceeded to shoot Roan through the cack of the heed with a .45 automatic pistol, whieh he head obtained from the arsenal of Fenry Gracmar,. This occurred on January 26, 1b2t, it was developed by Bureau agentes that Hale hired Ramsey to commit this murder, buying hi: 9 2500 Ford automobile prior to the murder, and { paying him <1,000 in cash after the surder had baen eo wmitted. It alanad ta en te we Powe whad Taln Damo aw + oe oe Whe AGEaa J wat GML aa Win GFilgGwa wv a Pai = ry - Aaw ata WoT Baw the killer. Hoan waa found several days later sitting upright in le | car, frozen atiff. The facts surrounding the murder of Hoan were provan by John hwnsey’s own confession, as well as ea qonfession of Ernest “urthert, nephew of tilliam Hale, who was present at all negotiations relative to the turder of loan. Jotn Kansey d{2 not even know Foants nave at the tine he surdered hin, but bed ainpiy hed Foan pointed out to him as the lal li
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