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gacto and dangerss ploces in the Osose country, such as the: cones * fiogaly usod as a mecting pluce by Al Spencer and his outlhiw poms, fe Man"s Hill, whorc mony murdors and robborias had beon plottcd. -# ‘te of the United Stutes Burcau of Investigation, togethor ath & itumant of the State Burcau of Criminal Identification or Qklab oma pon.’ M@o occasion Bat up for tio nights ond duys vith a ecnvict vritnoss * SS bofore. “obtaining o statement from him. The interesting incidents occurring: i: tn. the investigation and the trinl of the guilty partius invélvog in these _ murders | are too numercus to mention. - Burt Lawson, rhoso "bogus" cenfossion ceused Be cou agents: many. ‘hours: of reary work, upon his release into custody of the agents, proved ‘to bea glutton, tio tte tenbone steuk and French-fried potatoes thras i times a.day. Upon his first visit to a cafeteria vith ngonts, uron * ', Toaehing ‘the cashier he was faund to have four picecs of pic ond threo”: “|-picces: of cuke upon his tray and complained Qf whe fact that he hea no Poon ,, PF 8 moat dish. - - 7A ; 7 a , rc: Dewoy Selph, a mnterink Government witness, testified to the toot | nm that ‘ho vas Kired oy “liliam K.Hale to murder Kelsey Morrisonts vife. He <.° ge? “mas roleased ‘fran tho Syracusc,Kansns, Jril to. testify, snc vwhilo being held #S at Guthrio, Oklahomn, rith other material witnesses who bh bean tran .sforr: a ahs ir ‘from the Krnsns State Penitentinury, he -as left in a jnil ecll of which nll _‘the bars core found to hove been partly snved. Fo shoved his apprsciation - by bronking out of. the savod bars ond was subsequently “osrtud by Burau - agents clad only in his undereclothing, attumpting to hide in « barrol st ” mh pressing shop at Pivhuakre, Oklahom:., where he-wes having his suit pre S80 - Eo gerve os his reuson for the jnil brock thet he intended enlline on 1 indy Priond, who, incidentally, wis his ox-wife, Cocilia Bighenrt, full-blood _ ' Qsngo roman. , _ . On andSther otcnsion Selph valked cut omni. drunken jailor, “tek ag a with him the jailor's | pistol, nnd aftorvards stole an nutomonile, inv hich i oo he mrdea hie 4 . - ‘ ¥ 5 ', 22 Meas 81s Sacnpu. Ho vas rucaupturad by Baureru efcnts ut : subsos hoe OF aoe -and returned to testify at the trinl of Hale. Devey Sclph's noxt - “Thee, ig & _te-escapo, after having becn returned to tho Arknnsis Stite Peritenticry ~ 30 complote a sentence thore, rosulted fatally for him. ae 13 . While the trinl was netunlly in progress r Burceu ngent obte ined - * Information to tho effect thet Anle rns recoiving lettors from nm witness who? hod perjured himself ct Hale's former trinl. This ngent scrrched Hriets. “eell and loccted in the bedclothing tw lotters from tue wit noes stating , thet he herd perjured himself in Hale's bohrlf nt the Last tricsl and intends: Ye ae ' do he =o agein.« This witness wrs gubscquently sent to the Stetce Penis: site: . “34. fom life on 1 chargo of mrder, and the stetacnte vere introduced « stra ke ; at his final triad.’ -_ 2 age Re gn attornsy for Extc located tro trrmps na corcfully « aches nedg _ phen in helping prepara a | dofonse for the trial of Hills, The alert conte SaT aat ee