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OM ~1aR oO e & te 2 ject Hale would be laid upom Roy Bunch, He, ‘Bunch and told him that he, Runoh, had better leave the —_ State of Oklahoma } a at ma “ 1al6~29 Vas, “a on the 4th day of Jamary, 1986, Pitts Beatty, We H. Bale and mraslz'. ., de a trip from Fairfax, Oklahoma to Pawhuska, Oklshom. togetha and ' oe be ee eo ed On our arrival at Pawhuiske, Oklahoma, Bale Waa ATresiwde FLV HV ay and myself were up to the Sheriff's office and Bale told me up share to gO sea Ernest Burkhart and Jobn Ramsey and tell thea vo ait stuady, thet ho, Hale, would teke care of everythings While enronte from Ieirtax to ‘Pawhuska, Hale remarked to Pitts Beatty anid uysels Sheu ho night ve : grrasted on the Henry Roan case, as there hac ceen sase tat atous hig : ‘ {Hale} being arrested, but he, Hale, did not helievs that ha wau going ~ to be arrested, While Ww. K. Hele did request of me to tell my brother, Erne st Burkhart and John Ramsey to sit stesdy that he, Hale, would tease care of everything, judging from his remarks i > naturally thougt. that he meant for them not to talk or tell anything they imo., onyery, 7 tic. o2 F deliver Halets massagu as requested to Ernest Burkhart o10 Jeln lowe _ About two weeks before Hale was arrested, in Deceaber, 1928, he, mle, |” cama down to my place and told me that thero had been some tall around that he, Hale, was going to b3 arrested, but hs thought tho plans ~ :. Rule, said’ that he hed talked to Hay. country. He vata Boamts wife anite ley the blame en Wales to ma, you know that Roy Bunch ag been going with Henry wv awhile, and I said yess Hale said 1% would be casy to 313 Rey Sunch because he, Bunch, hsd betn going wlth Row. Riong in the fall, to the test of my reculicoticn, aocun thy fiscst of October, 1928, I mot Je Ie Howard, avtornuy fer aele, et Houlay, Okluhcoa, ‘at which time Howard told ms that .i° Be nest. woule texe tre woleht off of “Hala, thet he, Howard, would take tho weighs off c2 Bruesate. Watie Hiware didn't tell me that he could gat Biacst out, ne did sey that if cymest would teke the weight off of Bale that he, Howard. cosld haip him (oenecy Burkhart} ag he was én a position to holp hir and that ha, Howard, wend help him (Ernest Burkhart }- x (SfLem2a) ECUCE G. DULLED. Subscribed 7th day of January, 1929, teforea Louise Meteughiin, Tcetacy Publie" “on W. &. BUSZHART made affidavit with raference tc eonversation hac wiva Gave which reads_as follows: ourty of Osage jaa ; I reside et Fairfax, oka. ve Ke Hale remarked to ne thet if F woulu zee . ‘the boy, Ernest Burkhart, and get Ernest not to appesr on the etund asi . ee ; te iit “es Sub uu Band, eee Pas ot + . _ . ay _ Mo a) ~ . I