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veh eu erases. sb ak at auc aaa Be a het fat F~ e eaten One lawyer docated two “tramps and+care pully echooled fin helping to prepare a phony defense for Hale. FBI Agen oto the thtg sttuction, as well as the perjured testimony other witnesses, and many individuals subsequently ree sent. hues for perjury as @ result of FBI investigation. &¢t1l i. obhe@ friends and relatives of Hale were sentenced for betty. ‘tas seontempt of court. and for interfering with the legal process os: ‘the, court. ~ a ae sll ocad " * om While one of the trials s actually in progress a °- “9 Special Agent obtained information to the effect that Hale was “"“peoetuing lettera om a witness*who had perjured hinself at -— Hale's former tria ‘In the bedelothing of his cell were found — Stwo letters from the witness stating that he had perjured hinself min Hale's behalf” &t the last trial and intended to do so again. © . ¥ This witness was subsequently sent to the State Penitentiary for: “life on a’charoe of murder, and the statements were tintrodu ced ~ we rie ee es eae ee ee ee ie wre ae ; _ Bgaines Hale at jis final: trial. - + * : '. Dewey Seiph, a material Government witness, testified ‘to the fact that he was hired by William EK. Hale to murder Kelsey «Morrison's wife, a witness to the Anna Brown slaying, but lost “hig nerve. hile’ being held at Guthrie, ‘Oklahoma, with other. -material witnesses he escaped and was subsequently located by FBI Agents. At the time Selph was clad only tn his underclothing _and was attempting to hide in a barrel at a pressing shop at . : Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where he was having his suit pressed. He gave as his reason for the Jail break that he wanted to call on a lady . friend who, tinctdentally, was his ex-wife, a fullblood-S Osage woman. On another occasion Seiph walked out on a drunken Jailer, i! taking with him the jailer's pistol, and afterwards stole an “ automobile, in which he made his escape. He was recaptured by » FBI Agents at a subsequent date and returned to testify at the or: trial of Hale. Dewey Selph's next attempt to escape, after having % “been returned to the Arkansas State Penitentiary to complete rr ae ‘sentence there, resulted in his death. a os ty John Ramsey, during his trial for murder, offered ant a alibt to the effect that he waa not in Fairfaz, Oklahona, on the i ‘Gate of the murder. Investigation by Agents resulted in the , “production of the hotel register of an oid Indian woman who had formerly operated a hotel at Fairfazr, Oklahoma. These records ae I. reflected that Ramsey was actually registered in this hotel on the ‘. day of the murder. This Indian woman, it developed, had been : | furnished whisky by a lawyer presumably working in the interest of- Hale in an attempt to have her change'her testimony. This lawyer . + waa? bsequently sentenced to eighteen montis in a Federal Penigen~ for this action. Upon the successful conclusion of the cases aga inst: Had: Aone Sey and the other individuals involved in the uurders, the: Conn wre C8age Indtang, through their tribal council, passed resolutions.’ _ doh toh are enrolled on the records of the tribe. These resolutions “Terpress Gpprectation for the great service rendered by Agents of the federal Bureau of Investigation in breaking up the vicious murdey ring which had been preying upon the Osage tribe for years. ae = ~ 15 - ok, By a ee one EE ee a ee eae Re ee TP eed nergy i ahs pale re a nts See ie oe et sd oe at . a we Laat we . * = ao of tg A or aed : +0