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Dect Ta te am Re te Ce eke Be OMI sella oa ABR ti aA Ge ab PU ST eT ree ol RR Ee Re le tle ne coon ; ’ on AM. He said Bryan Burkhart, Anna Brown and another: wer@fin Ernest Burkhart'!s car and other members of the party’ » > es -3R @second car. They proceeded to another roadhouse two mide ~~ a1 Of Grbank where they bought some whtsky in pop bottles and remy ir oar. He said the two cars proceeded toward Fairfax, Bw “that about a mile.northeast of Fairfar at a fork in the road ‘one’: "* @ar.. turned east and, the other car, containing Bryan Burkhart, dana, 2 “: and a'third individual, turned west from Fairfar. The ime | wo £. id. gy Ded teved to be 2:00 A. Me Sunday, May 22. & tee, ; This witness said that®he knew Bill Hale had furnishe .: Bryan Burkhart the .32 caliber pistol to kill Anna Brown that ceed and he had, overheard Hale,” Bryan and the third tadtutdual: ; planning Anna Brown! 8 murder that evening, May 21. cp 22 poe “Further investigation revealed that on the ni gh¢ of be .. murder, Anna had been plied with liquor,by Kelsey Morriacn, a es : 24 * neat-appearing, white man of very bad reputation, and Bryan Burkhart 25." who were accompanied by Morrison's fullblood. Osage wife. They 26. . drove by the ranch house of Filliam KE. Hale who gave Morrison a. 27... («82 caliber automatic pistol to kill Anna. From Hale's house the. 2B. party drove to within a few hundred feet of where. the body was. te dater found and while Bryan Burkhart held the drunken Anna, fy... -Morrison shot her through the back of the head. Morrison later a 3 ‘confessed that he had murdered Anna at the instigation of Hale. | $22 - Morrison testified to these facts at Hale's trial and was corrobo-. 232 . rated by hts wife and a bootlegger who stated from the witness. M34... Stand that he saw Anna Brown murdered while delivering whisky - 235 °.., ordered by Morrison and Burkhart. _ Ww wo srs 4 “Aegh OMG ‘ae - - FBI investigation also disclosed that Hale had hired | 38° _John Ramsey, @ 50-year-old bootlegger and typical rough type ay ure 25 ‘western criminal who had served a penitentiary tern from cattle E349 °° rustling, to murder Henry Roan, Willian ae Smith, Rita Smita ang - : Pale. Hettte Brookshire. ’ a 43 ce, se It developed that Henry Grammer had furnished John HES gg =. Ramsey to Hale as the killer. Hale bought Ramsey a $500 Ford car .., ; prior to the Roan murder as part payment for the deed and patd hin HL, 000 tin cash after the murder had been conmitted. ‘ 33 mo oe John ‘Ransey did not even know Roan's name when he p49 ~ ' “murdered him but, had simply had Roan pointed out to him on the . ; « Stregts of Fairfax, Oklahoma, as the Indian Hale wanted killed. fa S2 oe Ransey made friends with Roan through Roan's fondness “y a for hisky and took him out on several occasions, ostensibly to. 2 _furn sh him liquor but in reality to murder him. Upon each qocea ton, Ramsey lost his nerve but on January 26, 1923, he i persuaded Roan to drive to the bottom ofa canyon. Here, out © a sight of the nearby road, he shot Roan through the bace of the head” “with a .45 caliber pistol which he had obtained from the arseaal .Of Henry Grammer. Hale later expressed anger that fansey had shot