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Rad "murdered. (Anna at the inet igation of Hales. "Worr toon’ te. _focts at Eole'’s trial and wos corroborated by his mife ag eP Uo stated jrom the witness stand that he sag aang os z gger ond typ teal rough type weatern eriminaal, to. murder rere GRe pbought Ramsey @ $500 Ford cor prior to the Roan murder ag part Pay ee “for the deed and paid him $1,000 in cash after the murder had “de: 16: , Séanitted. * > oe ‘but had simply, hod Roan. pointed’ out to a on the. streeta. or, ; eipfazr, Oklahoma, a& the Indian Hale wanted killed. Ramsey mathe B21 ffriends’ with Roan through Rean'’a fondnesa for whisky and took Aim eu¥ }22 on Several oeccaatona, ostensibly te furniah him liguer but in reali , 23. te murder Aim. Upon each occasion, Ramsey goat hia nerve, 334. 2! 24° * January 26, 1923, he persuaded Roan to drive to the bottom of a canyons 25 “Here he’ :shot Roan through the back of the Acad with a .45 caliber: : 2 _ptstel, Hale iater expressed anger that Ramsey had shot Roan in the B27. back of the head. since 1¢ had been planned to make it appear that Rda | 282 connttted sutcide. Hale was a self-appointed pallbearer at Roan*e* B29 funeral, and Hombeys upon viewing the body, pretended to be dee pl A308. affected. 7 : The feete surrounding the murder af Roun were corroborated” bs ““by the confessions of Ramsey and Ernest Burkhart who was present ot - ee pall negotiations relative to the. murder. investigation revealed that Hale hired John fomsey and 3 % as ““gee" Firby to murder Filliom FB. Smith and his wires: Ernset -... Sta “Burkhart, acting under, instructions from hia uncle, pointed out saitn'a 139 house to Ramsey and Kirby and sought Ramsey out te tell him when the « Snithe should be murdered, Be Agents Iearned that a fiver-gailon keg of nstroglyeern had been placed under the Smith reaidence and ignited. S, Agents also learned that Hale had attempted to hire #2 : >. Spenser, the notartoue outlaw, to £711] the Smitha, but Spencer declined, — acpytng that he had no compunction at robbing o train ar blewing a eafe ond killing indiuidusia in the course of such crimes, but he: had not sunk so low aa to murder helpless individuals for money. - After Spencer's refusal, Hole attesapted to hire other eriminols murder til tom Smith and his wife, but all refused. Apter the-nith massacres ‘Hole became afraid that Kirby now : ke. known Hole’a connection with the murdera, Accordingly, 5 Ae Pershesed ttray 6 antenpt the robbery of a grecery store e where the