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— ~ Fe Things appsrent]y ward rumiing favorable to HATE and n his nephews and nothing of parkicular interest in this story eogurrad until January 1923, other than the finding of the bodies 4 of JOR GREYSORSE, alla SsNDFORD and others who evidently had ‘been : the victing of similar PLOT. . : . ANNA BROWN had & cousin, a full-blooded Osage Indian, ; named ERNRY ROAN who, in January 1923, wis living with nla wire | MARY, aiso a full-blooded Osage, and thair children at Fairfax, : Oklahoma. ROAN frequently left home for as much ag tnres or four ‘ : weeks at & time on drunken sprees, so that when he left the House . On January 26th, 1923 and was mot seen for several days, there was : & no axcitement. However, on February 6th, am Indian boy ran across p Mes an autcmcblla im a swale or small canyon arcut five miles northwest ane ‘ ey of Fairfax and about £00 yards from tha road. He ran to Fairfax se 2 and brought two officers wac found ROAN'S body on the front seat of [ ee nis car where ne evidently aad been dead savers? days, shot through * t the nhesd from the rear, An ingnest did not dyveloy asy inform.cion rie other than that he cama to his death by a gun shot wound. This, ix . 3 eS itself, wus not partioularly indicative, bat a short time tuareattar, ' i HALE presented for payment an insurance policy issued by the Ca>itol 7 Life Insurance Company of Golorade, for @28,006 on the life af ouRy ROAN. The Company refused to puy the indemnity on the ercund of \ 4 a x = a G = We ec . » S ~ 7 = . frand and misrepresetitation and HALE antered a suit in the Federal