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oe ; Ernest Fu: da Thompson and the rQazrtisnn] fuce 5 age tacts rulative tc tho mrdors which ogants had fairer ay sbtrined, Ff Zcssod thet he mow 211 obcut the mirdors; that Roy, Bunch, who we ge heve cormitted the murder of Henry Ror.n, ws innceont, ond tht Johan “Romsey, who was nt thet tino living on Tillion K. Hrle's roach, hed fTigurot - getively in ell the murders. Jchn Remsey vos imodictcly Loented by “moms . 153,.,3.° of the Burecu, ond upon being confronted by Burkhurt and io.rning shat - 16°" ¥ Burkhart hed confussed, nade =. cample to ecnfession as te his part in 111 the 4 i7 - purdors. - es addition to the solution of the murders themselves, ures 7 agents discovered that Mollie Burkhart, full-blood Csage Indian rife of. * wnest Burkhart, tho alone remained between William Hale's nepher, Ernest Sa ‘Burkhart, and the fortune of the Lizzie Q. family, at the time the ~ 23 Hr Gt Government commenced j ts. investigation of tho;cyse was dying fran what = ,24 5° was believed ta be slov poisoning. It is an ésthbiished fact that as som 275 as Bho was gotten out of the control of Burkhart and Hale she immedi: wely 26°. rogained her health and is living todsy. 2 28 “te Le In conducting investigations of these-murders one Special Agent of 29°. . the United Stctos Bureau of Investigation posed as an Indiga medicine man f 204. , ‘dman undercover investigation, claiming to be in scarch of relrtives” who 32 we had moved to Ckishoma several vears before. Ho made a lot of medicine F222. around Fairfax, consisting mostly of svcetened water, and vas taken in by . 7 32 . the Indians, visited in their homes, attonded their corcmonials, thurvo + , : 34 . . gaining mech usoful information. Not only did tho agent acting as —35 ' + medicine man in actually dispensing the sweetened vuter to the Indians m36 s fein thoir confidence and coopcration, but he also served as aun Indirn a c.*°- modicine man in the inner circle and tribal councils, helping them to moke . 38°". > plans for the adminigtration of thoir tribal problams and govornment. Another Special Agunt of tho United Svatcs Burcau of Invi sigh tick, e iat oT ~~ £h = me aw _ me reoyer-on thc casc, posed as an insurance selosman end retually nsurance of on legitimate charucter, theroby gnining cntmince vo! the homos of influcnti al citizens ond gathering useful information, which | the citizens refused to give to government agents openly becouse of their Get foar of William K. Hale. In connection vith this sale of life insurrnce, =“. 25, _of course, informotion about the porsomel habits cnd cthur types of Obes “information available to insurance companics would ba obtnined, und 7 “frequently this information would have a direct besring on tre d@iffermt’ ongles of the case undor investigation. This agent contactcd Willicm EK. . -t} Hale himself under his guise of an insurance salesman, and almost succeeded _ v in felling him & policy. “te a i % Ae Still ancther Special agent of the United States Bureau oo , 56.0%, Invg@stigation played the part of a plain Texas. SORTA 5 and establisned ch , as ‘x A -asstei ation with many of Hale's intimates and amployees, ell of whan une. _ knowingly contributed useful information. The agcits cf the Un ted Stetes - Baréau. of Investimtion who rere working undercover on this casc often mot . a