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| arte ; ur? try, thickly wooded with timber unsuited for erg ! t } iL January 9, 1936 T am in receipt eof information from thie Bureau's Okishom City, Oklahoma, Offiee that United States Attorney C. BF. Bailey at Tulsa, Oklehoma, has received from the Pardon Attorney of this . Department the application of Willies Kmale for pardon, fale is presently serving a life sentence fu the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, fer the erime of murder on the Osage Indian Reservation. REOORDED & INDEXED y Z- 5O an Cone ¢/o. Thia Bureau investigated this murder ease ‘aad, as it. may be of interest ta you and infornative in the event you wish to take any action, I az sutmitting an outline of the pase op disclesed y the investigation conducted by this Bureau. The Ceage Indian sountry lies in the Osage Bille, situated the northeastern part of Oklahoea, a beautiful roliing country vered with tall, green limestone grass, and eonsidered the finest eattle srastn« eountry in the world. “fhe Odese Indian heservatios, whieh is identical with Osage County,’-Oklahoma, eonsists of @ million - and a half acres of Indian allotted land, is the largest county in the State, being larger in area than the entire State of Deleware. It is bounded on the southwest by the Arkensas River, and reaches from fulea, Oklahoes, om the south to Ponce City on the north, & distance of approximately sixty miles. It is alao sixty miles in width at its widest point. To give an additional idea of its immensity, in 1932 it contained over sixteen hundred public schools. fre. f This reservation was aequired by the Cherokee Treaty fron the Cherokee Indians July 9, 1866. The county seat at the time of the events related was Pawhuska, having « population of sight thousand, r tows and villages in the sounty are Fairfax, : Crevwhs rse, Ronisy, Wyness, Pershing, Siriatask and Welezoney. ‘ Osage County and the surrounding territery eontain very t affording exeelient concealment in additio= to ite almost inaccespibie canyons which served as hide-out: for [s notorias criminals. | At the tine of the murders from 1921 to 1925, this! édintay. MES & mn for all types ef desperate oriminals who -" : oO Lake Pitas: Bi fata Wb deta peg Gy . = tO Re TU OGRYEE bit is VU te, a fo POR MRR Reo Ge Jugs oe THN | e | 3)82 Le