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elias cath a ted Om Nareh 24, 1928, the Commissioner of Indien sffairs, of the Interior, Washington, De. C., requested the aid ef this Bureau to investigate the murders on this reservation sad from that date until Willian <. Hale waa convicted on Jasuary 26, 1920, @ period of appreximatoly six years, there were astively assigned to the investigation of this ease thirteen Special Azeuts of this Bureau. There were aise twenty additional Agents ef auxiliary effices ef this Bureau ongaged in a quasi-active part ef this investigation. dust prior to the investigation conducted by this Sureac, two dogen Osage Indiens ¢led under suspicious efrounstances, and the entire Osage Indian Tribe, ae well as the white elitisens of that looality, were terror~etriekm and in fear ef their live. fhis made the task ef the Bureau Agents extremely difficult beesuse law abiding citisens astually feared to converse with the agents relative to the recent deaths, To obtain information the agents were therefore foreed te work under various guiees, such as medicine men, cattlanm end insurance salesmen. 4 Aom Srowmm, divoreed daughter ef Liggle Q an immensely wealthy full bloed Osage Indian, was murdered om May 22, 1021, three miles from the town of Fairfez, Ckiahoma, en the pasture lands of Willies K. Sale in the bettem of a omall ravine. Investigatian diselosed she was murdered by Kelsey dorrison and Bryan) Surkhart, whe had taken her te this lonely spot. Merrieon was married to e full dloed Osage Indian end Bryan Burkhart wee a nephew of Willian EK. Haie. Shen Anna Brow wes in a drunken etupor, Burkhert held ber while Kelsey Worrison shot her in the back of the head with a .32 eslibre automatic piste] which had been furnished him for this purpose by Willies E. Bale a few hours prior to the actual surder. These facts were developed by a confession of Yorriso:, whe tesetifiec _ at the trial of Hale, and were substantiated by the confession of his wife. Bat williams, a bootle;; er, also substantiated theae facts, statin: that he saw her murdered while he was deliverin, wiiilake; ordered by Lorrison anc Burkhart. 3184