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tg ~8 A oe tw Oe ee ee ‘ he tet ta Ash y Bryan Surkhart, st :ewimekea. Hothing more definite was said by wel. a few . ‘Burkhart, ond I was told to meet sryan Jurkhart, ‘hie.buether, at the Fost office verve down to my cottage with some party unkviowm to me and best me up. Surkhart have ny firhting clothes on for a party there, but mentioned mo names. Tf I tried oi ot where I fell in with another Indian. vur money was pone end £ sola & et a hardware store there for 6.00 or .7.0C, which we spent for Jem Ledause <¥e I did not return to, RALZ'S rench at this time. ~ to Skiatook I fot into trouble, was scoused of receiving stolen entenced to the cKlahome Llenitentiary et .cAllister for tro yenra. wed to Skiatook, atout lay 18th, 1923, UALE. hesring I wes there, ¢ over to See me. Our conversetion was just ceneral, he later giving me <20se er ($30.00 for expense mousy, I bein~ broke then. in a few days UALS enme Bee enti drove me out to the Skiatook “lub House. While there LALZ mentioned grad © Lookeut, csece Thief, whom he wanted me to watch, WALZ said to talk with no lonay. to evoid all suspicions and arranged to phone me when I was to meet his nephew. @eva theresfter 1 cot 2 telephone eaoll at Skiatook. I think it was fron Barnes at Pavhugka, which I did. his wes in lay or June of 1923. Bryan Durkhart drowal: me avhidler, then to ysirfox, where I met ALS arain, jUALT seid to. be | in fer does, lochicr definite had beem seid up to this time and I et sil: whet he wes hinting .t wes kidnepping certain of these CUsere Indiens previously mentioned. , ™ ° oy I later went back to look over the lay of the land, 29 he wanted me to imow the different towns where I was to go, three or four of them. HALS told me not to Worry about the law. rom tairfax I went to Harmony Post {vrobebly Hominy} remaining: cll night at a rooming house near a grocery store nesr Santa Ya Depet.. Yezt dey I went to Skintesk, near which I rented a cottace on South Sth Street I think, “chile there, efter 2 week or so, without any excuse, Sernest Iurkhart: said.I was to have met them at Vynena. I told him I wasn't feeling good, Durk- art curseé me and enlled me yellow, then gave me a good beating, <chis was a - nicht in dune 1923. Later, 1 went to Tulsc, returning in three or four days by bus to Skiatook to cet some-.of my things at the hotel there. After supper, — Bryen Burkhart end Collins, I thinx he worked for KALE, cane out of e drug store! end we welled down to the Holy 2oller Church, where We sat dovn in « ear nearby. ! whihe there collins gave me two mans, a loaded 32 or 38 Jolts Automatic, and a $8 Uhith «nd Vesson Syeciel. Burkhart and Jollins scid thes scald tele me o¥ for a “job” between Shidler and wairfex, within a couple of dnys snd for me to find out just what they bed in mind, but learned nothing definite. ‘hey soid this wes for J. i. UALZ and that ALS would make rood om his money prorosition of 10,000.00 or 15,000.00. The only persons mentioned by them at this time were <red Lookows and snother Usage indian, who they gaid hid either stolen. ad hed trouble with Unle over /AL'S cattle. Iowns to show up ct “Fymona, T think «t dherlie Slairts.pool hell, end Burkhart and sollins would take me where *{° I was to .*2. Instea of doin this, 1 teeome susnicious and next mornin < vant to ules Slr remo§e, from there to sopekm, Vangas, anc then to Sioux Yells, South Lakes where IBvennined until verch 1924, when I rsturned t¢ vklshom.. About Vente 1904, when in Cerber, Cklahoma, I saw Earnest turkhart and en Wwimown partyes jurkhar® askg@eane what I wos doing there in a rather menacing manner. Later | ft: they followed me ont of Surber, chased me through cornfields, and later shot at | a Peele ENT puarse Cine lee