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a a) Bepartwent of Sustire, Bureay of Fuwestigatin. = * ‘E2608 “ Oklahoma City, Okle., pbATOSe Septemb er sixth - m 1923. 7 coe . ie, . . . ‘ OtOr, ‘Bureau of Investigatgon, ~ BILL SMITH, ‘et Als. Depertment of Justice, °° Murdered Osgga. Indians “ oer eediaal De Page - Okls,. city #105 $1000.» Stounatances and conditions surroundifg the above entitl<cd =. * atter.” While I do not desire to write a long letter, setting: orth facts, circumstances and rumors which might find fault: - or tend to find fault with the lack of law enforcement in Os-". age County, and to find fault with the atate officers as well, - [ will simply state that a deplorable condition exists in Oa. age County, and I have no hesitancy whatever in stating that? _ this assertion is fully warranted My. the conditions which 7 wat also note in Agent Weakloy' e first report in this ttatter that the Governor of the state of Oklahoma sent Herman Ox. Davis to investigate the murder of Bill Smith and cthers “4n Osage County, and also the liquor and other conditions in -. thet county. ‘Without going into any of the facts surround ing® the matter, I wish to state that almost immediately Davis waa. * gurrounded ty’s bunch of crooks and the result was that Her~ | men Fox Davis was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for two yedrs. He has been in the penitentiary for about two - months, and was pardoned September 3d. -4 ot ‘an merely citing this one instanoe and making the bold 46 tatement of the deploratle conditions which exist in Osage Cafinty, and to inform you that the people in Osage county .- awe practically no confidence - I might state no confidens wibtever - in-their county officiais and I believe I am sta ‘She the unyurnished truth when I state that they have no axe confidence in their ‘state officers ‘than they do in ‘ ir county ¢ officers. Be Re el 3 aS a a “ Eh : aka a Pe Sa Oe sae ane RE eS aM is TEI EE OE Ce I Hs “ten ~~