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connection with the mysterious xaths of a large number of Indians the “perpetrators of the crime would fet an Indian drunk, heave a doctor examine: a ‘him and pronounce him intoxicated, following which a morphine bypadermig. © would be injected into the Indian, and after the doctor's rture the { 7 ™embers of the gang would inject an enormous amount of morphine under the” a armpit of the drunken Indian, which would result in his death. The —<° “*@octor's certificate would subsomently read, "death from alcoholic : io ope Yo further complicate the task of the Bureau in invastigatin #2... these murders, Burt Lawsori, a convict confinct in tha Oklahoma Steve | Ponitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, made soverst tonfessions tothe murdcrs, in which he claimed to have boen employod by¥ Hale to mrder ¥. z. Smith and his family. Painstaking investigation by Purcsu ugents developed — that Hale had. eoicdeted this story himself, by #hich Lavson pretended to. * implicate Hale, knowing full well that Hulo could prove « porfeot elibi-: : for Lawson anc thereby absolve himself at the sem: time. It was notessury . to disprove the details of Luwson's confession before investigetion icoking toward the development of the true facts could be commenced. “tas tase: sie aes a In addition to this effort on Hale's part te mislcad the investigators, ho had EYt 1 upon the further plan “of “throvin> suspicion upon ‘one Roy Bunch, who had buon intimatoly associated with Sorn's wife for a - “: yoar or two pricr to Roauts murder end who hed subsoguantly morried her. Circumstances did point the finger of suspicion nt Bunch ond it was. ‘necessary for Bureou pgents to prove Bunch innsesnt Dbofore they proved Remsey ond Hale guilty of the murdor. This was accanplishod through ‘the confessions of Em2st Burkhart and John Ramscy, iich vindiested Bunch. =: -Falec rumors and statements on the part of Williop K.Palo's nyrinds af * ° fricnds and henchmen cased Burecseu egonts to mkc novdless trire to as ye talifornia, Now Mexico, Old Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Toxns, ond arizona.’ o- Aannn Brorm dn rislad erate or af Liggzir a dered on the niott+ af Aen Brom up Lor OL Liz2ir a GOPed On Oho Tet Of rf r May_22 , 1921, about three miles from tho tom of Foirfux, Oklcheme, on sno pasture innds of William K. Hale, and her body thiaom into the potton of & ‘> fall’ ravine. Investigsticn by Bureau neenta rovenled thut on th: night of + _ her murder sho-had been plicd vith liquor by Kelacy Morrison sna Brym - +7 Burkhart, who, uccompmicd by Cathorine Col2 Morrisen, full-~blood Osres wit@ of Morrison’, drove by the ranch house homo of Willinr K. % le, who* *. wm! ishod Morri aon with n 32 nutomatic pistol. From Hrlots rinch hruso: (tw thef drove to rithin a fo.7 hundred foot of where the murdered body af & Ann@ Brown wns leter found, md while Bryn Burkhart hold the drunkon Anw Mor son shot har through tho back of the herd, with tha sutomnitic pistel 4 wT Ye m1 Reuland * son rarer EGF ge ar ee iene detot eo