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& 1 was nted and while-the lawyers were conférring wtth Ernee _the @ourt adjourned and he was taken to Fairfax, Oklahoma, -* wherf§ he was talked to by numerous friends and relatives of gg ‘9 whe gea Aim to comply with the instructions from Hale's otter m1... LateM on advice of Hale's attorneys, Burkhart refused to tes$i, RIVE Sy At a Qater trial, however, he returned to the prosecutton with Be 12 7 full explanation of his actions which he stated were caused by 2 3 Le. _ 8 9 13-5 gtafiuence of Hale‘'s.attorneys. . / Re, Sy eee ee a So - we In addition to the solution of the murders, Agents oe * -s4¢dtseovered that Mollie Burkhart, grnest! 8s, fullblood Aosage wifes “ea “was dying | Jrom what was believed" to be slow poisoning. oe hig-%,.@n established fact that when she was removed from the control Bey of Burkhart and Hale she immediately regained her health. At. 33. er Mollie! s death Ernest, Hale's nephew, would have acquired the_ Poy ¥ ‘entire fortune of the Lizzie @ family. 3 4 _ ; 22 . William K. Haile and John Ramsay were tried four. tings | =. 340k" twice in the Federal District Court at Guthrie, Oklahoma, once 4" in the Federal District Court at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and: 3% * once in the Federal Diatrict Court at. Pawhuska, Oklahoma. They ..mere convicted ond sentenced to life imprisonment in the Federal bey Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Xansas, for the murder of Henry Roan. ea ye The United States had jurisdiction only over the place where Henry x 2 _ Roan was murdered. a gE PE Other sentences were imposed in the state courts for. ; Fi 32 murders over which the United States had no Jurisdiction, Ernest... me 32 | Burkhart received life imprisonment for his part in the murder Of . B34. Willtam EF. Smith and family. Kelsey Morrison wos given life 35° -, taprisonment wor the murder of Anna Brown, Bryan Burkhart Fi 36 - turned state! 8 evidence in state court and was never convicted. ~ ‘ In the.first trial of Hale and Ramsey the Federal Distriec Court ruled that it had no jurisdiction over the ease only to be reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States within the we i, COM ale and & short period of twenty-five days. The seeo.d triad”: er of Hale and Ramsey in the Federal Court at Guthrie resulted ina -hung Jury. The case was retried at Oklahoma City, Okiak toma, in. - the Federal District Court, and both Hale and Ramsey were convicted and given lifc sentences. "Hale appealed and his conviction wis reversed upon the ground that the case had been tried in the wrong dtatrict. This decision automatically reversed Ramsey's convietion gles. Upon thetr jast trial Hale and Ransey asked for @ severance - ‘and were tried separately in the Federal District Court at Pawhuska, Orlgh mG, resulting tn conviction and life sentences for both. { og a ; ‘Hale's Jowyers employed every device, legal and ilie gat; 33 -to ob ain their client's freedom. Defense witnesses committed | 3 _perju y and many of the prosecution's witnesses were invimidated, “yang bee reatened.