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Osage Indian Murders — Part 10
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"June 13, 1926. Tulsa.
ly name is lars. John Mayo, the wife of John Layo. I work at the
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in the Coffee Shop and he small man with a mustache .
as-ceid me {f I was John “ayo 5 wife. I told him that I was John
Mayo'ts wife. Ue then bean aszine me waen I got off duty and
wen Ivyvas not tisy, a9 he wanted to talk to me. I told him I
sot off late in the aftemoon, but if he came back about ten
thirey in the morning I would not be go busy. I did not at that
ime Know wno either of the men were. I asked the small man who
y were and he told me they represented Uale & Ramsey, and the
1 man with him was lr. Springer, and his name was Veaver. ‘The
tall man, lin. Soringer, said to Mleaver not to talk to me there at
the Coffee Shop, but maxe a date with me and talk somewhere else.
They oth left. About 10 o'clock that same morning the small man, _—
who siid his name was VJeaver, came cack. He started talking to me
saying he represented Hale & Ramsey and talked as though IT knew all
about the case, but I told nim I kmew very little stout it and
dtant' want to know any more about it. Ne wnen said "You know you
Jon't want to see those people zo to the penitentiary, you are not
that hard nearted." I told him it was immeterial to me what hav-
pened to them; that I was not mixed up in tne affair and was not
soing to get mixed up in it, if I could keep from it. He asked
me a few other questions, and said that I was tneir last chance
to nelp save Ramsey and Hale, and ne believed I could help. I
asked nim how he figured I could help them. He said that John
.2yo made a statement in the preliminary trial about a lot of
things, some of weich were not true, and we believe you could
valk to John and set him to chanse his testimony. I told him
to z0 talk to John, aud he (Weaver) said he couldn't afford to
and wouldn't be allawed to. I told him that if he couldn't go
way didn't he send some of nis friends. He said for the simple
reason that I would have more bearing on John and John would
widerstand me better than anyone else. I commenced to get mad
and told him to go on and leave me alone as his conversation did
not interest me in the least. He then wanted to meet me somehwere
or take me out in @ car and talk to me, saying he would treat me
just lixe he would his sister or mother. I told him I did not want
co Gale to nim and ¢ould do nothing for him, but he said I could
after I talked to John and for me to see John. I told him I vas
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