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roe tan. 04 “a Loe LO AeA Gs € 4 » : vt We. Memorandum ° UNITED STATES GOVERNMEN? : Pm, ’ _ movaishy - mo _ 9 .« PROM, 5 Bil, 7 sOras"| 7 : oo Bovey Sar OF I.C. #625033 ~ *- - ra ' pe ag “attached letter from Butte reflects that the U. S. Probation =: ' Officer at Boise, Idaho, has advised one of our Agents that he has . EE \ Péirected » letter to Kalter F. Urich, Parole Executive, U. S. Board of Pela” Boon ’ “Parole, Washington, C., protesting useaof John Ramsey's name in the Hie tober —— Le. L gom, book entitlas “Sicve Saunders, Special Agent® for March, 1945. ard = dp igrpook, as you know, is “published by Parents! Institute, Inc., which publ shes ra’ e 207" L¥frus Comics® with * nigh we have’ cooperated for many months by furnishing > Btc 4imaterial, The case involving Ramsey is that in which he was 4 c afenda eee 122°: _ with William K@iale, charged with the Osage Indian murderg, Both Hale anc Ramsey: 523 « vere given life terms, In the. I.C. memo John Ramsey is descrited as "a hootl::. 24> y year old typical rotgh type western criminal’ wie had served a penitentiary . 25h term for, rustling tattle, former member of the notorious Henry Grammer gang, actual ‘ 26 | Jmurderer ‘of William E. Smith, Rita Smith, Nettie Brookshire, and Henry Roan.* ‘In: e .. 21-5 811 about two dozen Osage Indians died under suspicious circumstances, It will be R28 agocalled that this'‘case was one of those illustrated inthe book published oy the | 297 seal tors of Look Magazine and f fansey and Hale were identified by name in this 30° ‘gy volu Pe oe “ MP2. eo s 32 ‘The attached memo points out that Ramsey is 69 years old and told the “Probation Officer that he felt his debt to society had been partially paid by his ; service of <1 years of his iife sentence and that he sees no reason why fictitious - Manes were not used in the preparation of the article, ‘There appears to be mo - ‘oillegetion of misstatements in the "True Comics" presentati on of this case. In wiew of the wide publicity given this case in past years, Ramsey's prior criminal - 3p record, and the aggravated nature of his participation in the sordid crimes against . > - "= the Osage Indians » it is not believed any special consideration should be given: im EE ~NDEXED oo Ned ¥. F , a Sar