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re - 494 Swi Ve OO WAU ek Wh OW OD IA mw Ne Oo oe eS oe ee Cd Fat ne Ed Bat Bat EY te i i { MEK. Bepartuent of Justice Washington, D. C. PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIB sBUREAU CF Wg Ps wr. A | £8 1a a FEB 12, 1927: Dear £ir:- ° DLPA Cit on it was found that Mayo would be needed in connection with the trial of Burean of Investigation F, O. Box 1535, Uklahoma City, Oklahoma. February 8, 1927, Director, Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, With reference to your letters of the 22nd and --~- 29th ultimo, concerning the presence of John Mayo at Tulsa, Oklahoma, at which place Mayo esceped from the custody of State authorities, _. I beg to advise that I have conferred with Special Assistant to the BE: Attorney General gdwin Brown, who advised me that John Mayo, who was “gf perving sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Kansas, - was used as a witness before the Federal Grand Jury which returned indictment egainst W. K. Hale and John Ramsey in the Osage Indian _. Murder case at the January, 1926, term of the Grand Jury at Guthrie, . - Oklahoma, at which time Mayo was brought from the Kansas Penitentiary to Guthrie on a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum. | ae OR - Mr. Brown stated that after the Grand Jury adjourned, |. *;° Mayo was returned to the Kansas Penitentiary but tmt it was later -l7y found that Mayo was needed in the trial of Ernest Burkhart in the State coe Court at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, for participation in tha mrder of W,-B. 67° Smith and family, one of the so-called Indian murders, and that as ‘the - Oklahoma State authorities were unable to have Mayo produced as a wit- +! ness, arrangements were made with the Governor of Kansas and the Warden | of the State Penitentiary whereby Mayo was brought to Pawhuska at the \ expense of Osage County, in order that he might be used in the trial of the State case, as indicated, the counsel for the Government in the : Indian cases joining with the Osage County authorities and the Attorney : General of Oklahoma in requesting this arrangement, ” a of Burkhart, 7 ch hg ry aa io 4 ek = im q nt Wr. Brown sleo stated tha Bie wee wet Se ea oS the Hale-Ramsey case at Guthrie, and for that reason a further arrangement/*, 3