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eRe tee ta te et ti A mem SR ae ced eR Pt ea eS Tabi! eS eA eae a eS nl de at at be ae Se a PE te Tee Ti dae ee ey Be lag eS ; ao ie JCRN RAMSEY, bootlogpor, fifty your old typical rousth type ; id : ne - orn oriminal cho hid served a pamitentiary term for rustling on4*h ma -~ fe Mpoy mowber of the notorious Henry Grommer gong, .etun) murdurtr of | 4 y he fem E. Smith, Ritu Smith, Nottie Brookshirs:, cnd Henry Rean. ‘ey 5 eee ; < 13 i coe ° ERNDIT BURKHART, “"Squav Man", in his corly thirties, nuphen ; oe SR ot “4. XK. Halc, vho completely dominated hin, a muektiiled individusl ~ko |. did his unelo's bidding; murried to Mollic Burkicrt, full=blood Osuge Indien, daughter of Lizzie Q, reulthy in her om right; « very fricndly individual who suumingly thought he 4c done no vrong in participating in ‘the crimos ho admitted; implicated-in the murd:r of Hunry Roon ond of the’ 8. EB. Smith family, Hs vas the ~ock link in Willirm K. Helets orgunis eA ON, the first to confess the true stete of affnirs, giving Special agonts of .. 7 ‘ thie Bureau thoir first roak lend in the casc, cotueclly implicating Hrio and Rrosuy. s Ly hw . . KaLSry MORRISON, "Squaw Man", 35 yeas sold, @ neat appioring’ nari - of very bad reputation, married to a full-bicod Osage Indian voman — named Katherine Cole; admitted murder of Anna Brown, with help of Bryan © ~ Burkhart at ingfigation of ¥.K.Hale. . 2 amd . BRYAN BURKHART, a "Squay) Man", younger brother of: Ernest Burkhart, who turned State's evidence in the State Courts. : DE EY SELPH, 8 "Squav Man", former husband of Cecilic« Bithesrt, full-blood Csage coman, vho vus hired by ¥. &. Hele to murder en Indien, but “ho lost his nerve and later confersed. IZ2Z]5 Q, also knom™m as Liz2ie Kils, full-blood Osage Indian “s bet-eem 70 ma 80 years of age, immensely venlthy an her om right, mother “"s } of ANNA BROW, MOLLIE BURKHART, wife of ERNEST WURHAPT, end RITA SMILE, . wife of W ES. "BILL" QUITE. This Indiun vomun und cn thre: dauchtcrs - wero all immensely realthy, ‘ouch being the ovmmer of Osage hurd rights, end recciving royeltios from of] and gas vells. The Govarnment's theery in the investigation of the mrder cascs, hich subsoquently proved to be arbstauntially truc, vas that W. K. Hule dominated his nophe:, Srnaest Burkhart, the husbund of Mollic Burkher t, en , Planned to do avay vith Lizzie Q and her ronainins tveo duvghters, ema “ finally Burkhart's orn wife, so that Burkhart -ould fall heir to the hend . Tights of ell four, Purkhurt being under the domination of Hale, vho would, “ 1 df Rucessary, eventually herve killed Burkhart, nnd as u result eequirmd ay . ma, Yoalth of these four Indian women. vo me Just prior to the invustigation of th. Osage Indien Murder . | B by the United States Burcau of Inves tigaution, tcc dcven Oscrt. Tndlens ft under suspicious circumstances, and the cnatire Osuge Indian Trit<, : as the whit. citizens of thet loc-lity, wore turror-stricken <12¢> * foar’ of their lives, Tho tribal council passed w resolution requesting the “ahd of the Government in solving these mrders. The fect that lmecbiding ¢ “ta cr or ees ee ee mg a tegen a ee ee a < brs Spree wecchgisnye Fee a i ss ocak Sie SBN aS iat REE * sat ns Rdisrtteh- tlhe nell