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e * ff 2° 7 % Te “4920 Iixzgte ¢; the aged mother, was brougat. te Ernes we home where she lived with her daughter Mellie. and her: She was the second of the family taken directly under #3 jagje in the general scheme. Farly in i92i Liacte 2 de ved ; whioh very evidently would result in her decth, Ghe he : So moke a wtll, leaving the bulk of her estate to Ernest a Lz Burkhar: @ wife and children. Sut there were even higher. stakes 3 me 12 ‘womets Bf the old woman should outlive Anna Brown, then, under. the : 14 sof the State, Lizzte Q's fortune would be increased by half of dnna- 2 # _Browits estate. However, if Anna should outlive her mothers the greater” " ie. ;part of her fortune would be diverted to. collaterals. a spas BY +3 GP) Gt ke ter ee Fe Blagg * On May 27, 1921, a hunting party found the body of anna Brom. ea, "ravine about three miles from Fairfar, Oklahoma. She had apporentiy een ‘dead’ for five’ bt siz days, and a bullet hele was discovered. an t ack. of her. badly decomposed and swollen head, — 7 , -At Anna'ta death the estate of Lizzie @ was augmentes Spy aA ? 24% ye dnna's estate. The next expected happening.occurred tivo nonthe afte Ca ‘Anaa Brown's death when Ligzte @ passed away at the hone of her dcught, 4 26 Mollie Burkhart, the wife of Ernest Burkhart. Lizzie Q's estate plus : half of Anna Browns s, eatate therefore passed tn bulk to the Surkharte 4 oF ut af a oy ae aa ‘after Anne Brown a) death, an investigation. was innediately | . “started and her brother+in-law, Willtam E. Smith, was the most active : 30% ember of the famtly in pursuing the investigation. Both he and BEB coe wife were very outspoken in thetr belief that ¥.R. Hale and his " ““gephews were responsible for the murder. Sryan Burkhart was arrested - . 43 34. “and charged with the murder of Anna Brown in-the state courts; however,” A 35 not, was acquitted. , : a ; a te? bed a Be 438. %; . Anna Brown had a cousin, a picturesque full-blooded Osage a. se “and tan named Henry Roan. In January, 1923, Roan was living with hia- 39° “wife Mary, also a full-blooded Osage, and their children at Fairfaz, ~ a4 Oklahoma. On February §, 1923, an Indian boy found an autonobile in @ i “rooky gwale a few miles northwest of. Fairfor. On the front | Sec 3 me Ns he. body of Henry kvan-~-a bullet hole in his head. OS be ia a3 ‘Shortly after Roan's death, Hale presented for poynent a ; € 425,005 insurance policy on the life on Henry Roan. is e 72. William Es Smith, the husband of Rita and the brother- in-law’ ET os inna Brown, was living in a comfortable home with his wife and a “white servant girl named Nettie Brookshire. Smith had continued his 50 active-tnvestigation of the murder of Anna Brown and hed a bitter - altercafion with Hale, due not only to his letfing it be known a ke. $i had eviflence involving Hale in the murder of Anna, but also because he. B32 demande thet Hale pay hin $6,000 he allegedly owed him. On March! 20; sa 28 8¢ than. two months. after Henry Roan's body was found, Sn th ts * 55 th Ae Fotrfax wae demolished by an explosion. Hts wife, Rita, ce a Be ar "Y p year-old witte servant, Nettie Brookshire, were Atiled ins