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awe proved to be a failure. ao this same Lawyer sent his repersentive the 12 of this month and wanted me to talk with Floyd himself. so I decided to go with him and I rode with him within ¢ mile of the Eay barn that they are using as a hideout. there is Floyd and ¢ other desperate criminals in thie bunch "Now the way I have this figured out is this. for you to come to my county seat, Pryor Okle. and leave me put the 5 of them on the spot ir the Hay barn thru the lewyers man and you make ar- ranguents with my sheriff and United states deputy Marehal here and you be in cherge of taking this bunch to a cleaning. as I know the location of the Barn and surrounding country and will be @ dangerous affair as the lawyers man claim they have 4 machine guns and I also know the name of the man thet owns the farm, the way I have thie aituation sized up the lawyer ia grafting pretty boy Floyds mother out of a lerge sume of money and furthermore I will ask you not to make known our proposition to any of the sheriff force in Delawere County. end shen I seo you I can expiein this to you. Now if you feel that this preposition is fair I will expect a letter from you soon telling me the best way thia can be handled I am a man with plenty of formar experence of this kind, letters of recamendetion end 80 on. Yours Miles Plemnons P.0. 33, Selina Okle. * On Monday night I left the Oklahoma City office with Special Agent Deaderick and arrived the following morning at Salina, Oklehoma, where Plecmons was contacted through Charlee Whiteday, Deputy Sheriff at Selina. Plemons is a man 54 years of age, appears to be sane, states that at one time he was Sheriff et Burns, Oregon, has in the past throughout the states of Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri assisted lew enforcerent agencies in obtaining information concerning ¢rime, is at present unemployed, and has been residing in Salina for approximately four years; that his only source of income is a Spanish~American War pension in the amount of $30.00 per month, and that he is interested soley in the matter referred to this office for eny money that he can get out of it. He told me that he had discussed this matter with Sheriff W. J. Walker at Pryor, Oklahona, the county-seat of Mayes County, in which 16 lecated Salina, and with Charlies Whiteday, Deputy Sheriff at Salina,