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ete Me eb ba Die a eB ete A rn ante Be ae ER ae aaa er aE D NEE beg EE OE area re momen ee eee oes wa -. * "On May 27, 1921, @ hunting party ound the bad2y Zi 3 decomposed and awollen corpse of Anna Brown*in a ravine about, oo ef niles from Fairfaz, _Oklahona, just dS the Pawhuska = ane had apparently been dead for five or siz days. fh wad wearing a blue broadcloth skirt, a white underehirt ae efeot. A shawl, apparently hers, wae Sound a + few fee Oe “the “hunters immediately notified an undertaker who oame - -_ 7 took charge of the body. The body was rotten and swollen © vs ‘almost to bursting. While the body was being prepared for durtel” “the scaip slipped from the skuli and a. bullet hole was discovered “in the back of the head slightly-te the left of the middle and. : penetrating. the skull bone. ¥o “hole of egress. was found. Due to- Eat terrtble odor and condition of the body only a crude and hasty rhand peu was performed by bisecting the cranium from front ter rear rand searching tn the decayed | bratn mass for the bullet. Apparent2 “none wa s found. . a a * vr: Sa w : After Anna Brown's death, an investigation was “innediately’ 25% etarted and her brother-in-law, W. E. Smith, was the nost active ~~: 26 2 member of the family in pursuing the investigation. Both he and -. 27° ‘Ais wife were, vary outspoken in their belief that ‘Bill Hole and his’ 28 nephews were responsible Jor the murder. 29 ™ . B30! Bryan Burkhart was arrested and charged with the nurder Ba) °° 'of Anna Brown in the state courts but Hale furnished bond for him. m32. and Bryon was acquitted. 732 ‘vee At Anna 's death the estate of Lizzie Q was augmented by B3s° half of Anna's estate. N36 . I « The hezt expected happening occurred two months after. 3a° Anna Brown's death when Lizzie Q passed away at the home of her* 19. daughter, Mollie Burkhart, the wife of Ernest Burkhart. Lizzie o's fig ' estate plus half of Anna Brown! & estate therefore passed in bulk. fay: to the Burkharts. q a a Anna Brown had a cousin, ‘@ picturesque full-blooded — R342) Osage Indian named Henry Roan. He wore itis hair down his back in las “ plaits, atood siz feet tall and was a fine looking specimen of - By a6 Osage manhood. In January, 1923, Roan was living with his wife. ; a7, Mary, also a full-blooded Osage, and their children at Fairfax, oe '.. Oklahoma. Roan was an inveterate drunkard and frequently left hone ~ $3 “yor as jong as three or four weeks at a time on drinking spreeae 50 " When he was not seen for several dave, therefore, no excitement Paesr “ was a oused. ~ et ' On February 6, 1923, an Indian boy found an autonolile $n a fFocky swale a few niles northwest of Fairfar and about 200 -: a a Joos the back road between Fairfar and Burbank, The boy ron’ 0 Fatrfar and returned with two dow enforcement officers who found .