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| agency and cat their finances off until they come in and tell the whole | | | | T. F. Feiss. Toy. 9-12, 1623. 126 Agent found “ARY BLACXBIRD in Fairfax, and after first having wR, truth, or to throw them in jail and keep them there. | | 3. RICHsRDSON, Indian farmer, and a very reliable and discreet man of long experience and good standing with the [ndians, prepare her as well as possible, to tell the truth, agent interviewed her. MARY BLACKBIRD agent found to be a full-blood, fat, rough, low In- dian woman, very sullen on this question, but speaking and understandi urglish perfeotly. MARY BLACKBIRD took the same attitude from the statement that “AMTE FLETCHER did, to-wit: She stated at tre outset that ske knew at- q that she would answer was, "I don't Enow a thing atout it", ina sullen and defiant manner, and she would not look agent in the eye, and plain-~ ly indicated thet she was lying. Thax only information that agent was able to get out of MARY BLACK~ BIRD was that she had heard another Osage Indian woman named MYZRTIZ KING of Grayhorse telling some woman that ghe, MYRTLE KING, had started |; out to go somewhere in her car before daylight Sunday morning, May 22, 1921, and had met ANNIE BROWN and BRYAN BURKHART in @ Gare MARY BLACKBIRD declared that she did not learn where this KING woman had met aw eee wae them, whether it was st Pairfax,,Grayhorse or some other place, ani in fact olaized to know nothing further. agent tried for a couple of hours with the assistance of im, RICH- ARDSON to get this wsRY 3LaACkBIRD to tell the truth, -Eut she kept in- , Sieting that she knew nothing further, but plainly showed that she did. yy: f foe ee ee “ — i i~he ses: «Sen ae fae Ur Satan ang . Ot 42 ge CSS Ao a ve ey 2 rae 7 4 ae a i if tat ee me yeas ee cee ot