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d IDM WHE DOO IRVEUN HOM *. xe a : Lo a re we We Nem Ow mM FO eee OW oO. am ed Litelona Dity, Gelabomn Oehober 14, 1937 Fervor ry Reign Slayer | | ‘Gets Berry Clemenct 4 Ernest Burkhart, Osage mage Killen, Is Is Given ‘Niniety-Day “°° Leave From McAlester Penitentiary- me SA 90-day leave of absence for Ernest | Burkhart, ‘the’ gov-. “ernmeni’s star W ritness in the famious Osage ‘reign oi,.ter- yor triais a decade dgo,: was announced Thursday -by James. ‘E. Perry, acting gov rernor. | ° “Berry salu Burkhary will be released from the McAlester pe nitentiar y to attend to. personal business affairs at Ais: home in Fairfax. - Burkhart received a i ife sentence when he pleaded guilty to § g murder charre in steté court at Pawhuska after testify- ing against his unvie. WK. Ifale, reported ringleader in a. murder plot emainst several Osage Indians in federal court at Guthrie. aa Hale received u lite sentence a t his first trial in 1926, won « reversal in the circuit court. of appeals:and was re- ‘turned to Leavenworth -penitentiary. for another life sen-" tence aftsr 2 second convicticn. zt, now 45 years old, is: aa ae ote a@ trusty fcAlester and actS!to turkhart’s wife, Mollie. Through ‘as chauliour for ufticlal visttors. tne series of deaths, which left The leuve wrepared by Berry is | scores of Osages in fear of thei: lives, he . - - 13 “3, Burkhart inherited five head- the first Crehehey ne has Te 1s from kinsmen who dled mys~- ceived since Henry S. Johnston, cericusly. ‘ was vemoved a8 povernor in | Senator Asks Action deed, Oo ‘ | Federp} investigators eventual: \ Admiited One Murder traced ‘the mounder of Henry Roan, an Burkhart was relesced under guard Osege, to Hale and John Ramsey. i ADDCA at a goverMment wiiness at | Burkhart’s? subsequent arrest and . Hale's second inromise to turn government witness trial at “Pawhus- ‘was instruments! in getting couvie- ka ir October, ,wions against both Hale and tamsey, 1928. Eventually | wrote A. F. Moss, Tulsa attorney, in complaints be-lope of the mazy ‘Spplications for gan to reach the: oemency. { capitol that ei Burkhart’s prison ‘file in| ‘the par- pra don and parcle office bulges with botu was Virtual ly | clemeuc Tecomrcdat is) and a= leading a life of tests, ¥ ij 5 pr ” freedom. after Jchn-' One of,the latest letters was from eton's Fem oy aj/'Tom Waldrep, Shawnee, state sena~ om office, (tor, who wrote Muay 14 asking Gover- ornare sought , 2or Marland's ynotlficial pardon and a parole from’ W.- parcle beard to review the case. J. “Bollavay, then | - ~ Officiils Are Freed govern . = ; or, but) Berry said that he acted on’ the : was told that he! recommendations of a delegation of Ernest Beckkart would have tO Fairfax business men. Thelr mames return to McAl- Ii ere not listed, however, in the leave. ester before bis applicadon could Berry also prepared to sign par- considered. Hi surrendered at the! e prison ' yas remained in custody |S is Festoring the citizenship of Ed Thatcher, former Payne county ever sir i coamedcei ans + commissioner, and two co-defesdanis . “Another Gets Clemency -: . ‘ Besry ordered a 60-day leave. ‘pres pared SThuraday afternoon for-.Odes ““Andersy from Véagoner county despite the -pro- | jing money under false prete a highway-pay roll to make salamy pay- test ofthe trial ridge. Anderson was [ren to Sam. Nugent for two months . ‘received eG McAlester, Nov. 23, .1986, | that Nugent did not work. after he was convicted: ot stealing | Thatcher, Nugent and ‘Claude Smith | Bee. hah Pe) . 1dke: holin™ ‘§ : % geben : Pe ° ooteich? an nee 69 trial judge; hae a letter on file ind «0+ ce os which he ass: ‘ted that clemency for Aspercan cl, rom meet with approve - + * _ who pleaded guiiry in 199} to ¢otain- . m, under a. five-year sentence | Thatcher was charged with pedding | \e tig ame -, a er alld greatest ’ i 1 i 5 a wee ag eet en nn et a fe yt rat oor a age ee acne “ ese ee FEES