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” Be bering and knowing that these conditions do exist, and he vs a “gonfidence that if there is an investigator in the United, - Stal es who can ferret out these cases that Mr. Weiss can do. cpt: “Tam requesting and recommending that Mr. Weias be given ty Cpa a eee acne eb ae Oe mat mporary appointment of sixty days to devote to this inves— merigcetion. and that he be given the assistance of agent Bark- | : @ requested, and I wi]l state that if some of these mrders are not solved in that’ time, that it is my opinion Si ee. 1A bh mot SegPeeould be worthless and useless to put forth any far- ore fort ‘om then. ar ed at Sigg aS IP ant aay aed res ‘+ i a ‘erequeated by ir. Weiss that Agent Rarkhaugsen be assigned — : instead of Agent Weakley, I desire to state that this is not n> 40 ‘be construed as any reflection whaveyer upon lr. yeakley,” Pa no hesitancy whatever on the part of lir. Weiss to co~ - ie with Agent Weakley to the fullest extent, but you “note. from Agent Weakley's lest two investigative. re- porte, that” he* seems to have come to thé, conclusion that . efe murders are impossible of solution. Mr. Yeiss thinks that the ‘Annie(Brown and Charlie Whitehorn murders can be solved, and his only reason in requesting that igent Bark- “hansen be assigned is that agent Barkhausen worked out of : this office for neurly a year and we are familiar with hie... “ perseverence, agressiveness and his desire to accomplish . whet. be. andertakes. . 4 : He ay the confidence that I do that Mr. Weiss c 6 esd aimarders, or at least some of them, I am going to re- “quest: that in case you do not feel your way clear to give . eal ‘weies thé sixty-day appointment as requested that if it “would be possible to have the Commissioner of Indian affair, - appoint him for sixty days as an investigstor in the In- ~ terior Department that the same results might te obtainsi. “fhe-only ok ject in asking this appointment is that Mr. Weiss may go to Osage County as a representative of the Federal : Government instead of as a representative of the state gov- = a ernment. It is the co-operation of the Federal officers in. . the: ‘Interior Department in Osage County and of the citizen- ship generally which we are seeking, and the plan above out- Pi lines is the way in which we believe that thése desired re- te a — A Lf ; ~ yames G. Findlay, ae Agent in Charge. ; ; 4, ; _ __ Iie PA ern ~ oe —— sae re caealicaend