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could
get
control
over
a
few
of
them.
There
was
old
Lizzie
Q.
She
was
a
full-blooded
Osage
worth
may..
$330,000.
Lord
knows
how
much
more
she
would
be
worth
another
is,
if
—
sooner.
Oil
was
flowing
faster
and
faster
from
the
Osage
wells,
and
the
me
“bead
rights”
were
as
good
as
a
diamond
mine
in
a
man’*
back
that
a
man
That
old
squaw
had
three
“head
rights”
herself;
and
her
daughters
held
one
and
one-sixth
“head
rights”
each.
Now,
Hale
mused,
suppose
old
Lizzie
Q.
should
die.
And
just
sup-
pose
that
two
of
her
daughters,
Anna
Brown
and
Rita
Smith,
years.
few
m
a
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should
V,
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7;
.
-
die
along
with
Rita’s
husband.
Who
would
inherit
all
that
money,
it,
anyway—
would
go
to
the
third
daughter,
Moflie.
And
Mollie
was
married
to
Hak’s
nephew,
Ernest
Burkhart.
Then
if
Mollie
should
die,
there
would
be
no-
trouble
handling
Ernest.
He
was
a
weak-wille^
chucklehead
anyway.
Hunters
fotirid
Anna
Brown’s
decomposed
body-ia
a
ravine
near
Fairfax
in
May,
1921.
She
had
been
shot
in
the
head.
Her
estate
was
worth
$100,000.
Old
Lizzie
Q.
died
two
months
later,
apparently
of
natural,
causes;
her
estate
was
divided
between
Rita
Smith
and
Mollie
maybe
half
a
million
dollars
or
more?
The
answer
was
simple.
The
fortune—most
of
Burkhart.
Indians.
And
just
as
the
verse
said,
now
in
there
were
only
two
little
Hale
was
a
methodical
man.
He
was
Lizzie
Q.’s
family
estate.
Before
any
more
there
was
another
murder
job
to
be
done.
no
hurry
about
rounding
up
moves
in
that
direction,
-'4.
Anna
Brown
had
a
cousin—
picturesque
full-blooded
Osage
a
In-
dian
named
Henry
Roan
Horse
who
liked
to
wear
his
hair
down
his
back
in
plaits.
On
February
6,
1923,
Roan
Horse’s
body
was
found
out-
of
his
car.
Henry’s
brains
had
been
blown
out
for
reasons
known
best
to
Hale.
Two
months
later,
while
Hale
was
at
the
Texas
Fat
Cattle
Show,
Fairfax
was
shaken
by
the
explosion
which
killed
Bill
and
Rita
Smith
and
their
maid.
After
this,
there
remained
only
one
little
Indian
side
Fairfax,
slumped
in
the
front
seat
Jk
•
Mollie
Burkhart.
shook
Fairfax
also
shook
the
Osage
Tribal
Coun-
c3
to
action.
In
desperation,
the
Indians
appealed
to
Washington.
A
lawyer
composed
their
resolution,
which
said:
blast
that
But
the
be
iciir*#*
m
of
the
Department
of
Justice
in
capturing
and
prosecuting
the
murderers
of
the
members
of
the
Osage
requested
Tribe.
to
whereas,
several
members
of
the
Osage
Tribe
have
been
murdered
...
red
and
many
other
crimes
committed
against
members
of
the
tribe
...
be
rr
.
. .
resolved
that
the
Honorable
Secretary
of
the
Interior
erior
obtain
the
service*
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of
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FBI
Story
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to
the
People"
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The
appeal
was
relayed
to
the
FBI
and
the
order
went
out launch;
lag
an
investigation
that
was
to
last
for
three
years
and
become
or
jof the
classic
manhunts
in
FBI
history.
FBI
agents
moved
into
Fairfax
and
found
an
almost
impenetrai
I
and
witnesses
who
might
have
given
Information
had
long
since
disappeared.
There
were
rumors,
which
sent
the
agents
off
for
days
at
a
time
on
false
leads.
Someone,
they
knew,
was
deliberately
“planting”
stories
to
confuse
their
search.
M
But
the
hunt
continued.
No
one
in
Fairfax
paid
any
particular attention
when
four
strangers
drifted
into,
tpwn
one
by
one,
a
cattle
buyer,
an
insurance
salesman,
an
oil
prospector
and
an
Indian
herb
doctor.
They
went
about
their
business,
minding
their
own
affairs.
Weeks
passed
without
a break
in
the
case.
But
then
a
signal
was
passed
and
the
font
strangers
met
one
night
in
the
badlands
to
pool
their
information
and
plan
their
next
moves.
The
^cattle
buyer**
was
the
oldest,
and
he
was
the
FBI
agent
in
charge
for
this
special
under-
wall
of
fear.
People
were
afraid
to
talk
cover
stand:
detail.
After
hearing
the
reports,
he
summed
them
on
up:
“‘Here’s
where
we
Anna
Brown
was
killed
unrestricted
[non-government]
land
and
so
were
Bill
and
Rita
Smith.
We
have
no
jurisdiction
there.
Bat
Henry
Roan
Horse
was
killed
on
restricted
[government]
land
and
that's
our
case.
If
we
can
break
that
case,
1
figure
we’ll
find
all
the
—
kilters.**
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met
under
the
stars
in
the
Osage
hills
to
exchange
information
and
each
time
they
met
they
had
a
bit
more
information
about
the
circumstances
surrounding
the
mur-
ders.
Gradually
the
picture
was
taking
form.
And
the
man
in
the
pic-
ture
was
William
K.
Hale.
Finally,
the
agent
in
charge
told
his
men:
“Hale
is
our
man
without
a
doubt.
He
had
a
$25,000
insurance
policy
on
Henry
Roan
Horse’s
life.
And
it
looks
as
if
he
was
working
to
get
the
estates
of
Lizzie
Q.
and
her daughters
centered
in
the
hands
of
that
nephew
of
his.
But
we
have
to
prove
it”
Prove
it
they
did.
The
wall
against
which
they
had
pounded
so
long
crumbled
slowly
but
steadily.
From
the
badlands
came
a
tip
that
a
cer-
strangers
often
tain
convict
in
the
The
others
agreed.
Months
passed.
The
four
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Oklahoma
State
Penitentiary
knew
something
about
the
murders.
The
agents
found
that
the
convict,
said,
who
hated
Hate,
was
tell
ady
to
ing
talk.
He
“Go
see
Ernest
Burkhart.
He
can
you
every-
•
you
want
to
know.**
This
dovetailed
with
other
information
collected
over
the
months!
te
agents
confronted
Burkhart
with
what
they
had,
and
what
they
suspected^
Hale's
nephew
was
the
weak
link.
He
broke
and
told
the
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agents
how
Hide
had
dominated
him
all
his
life.
He
named
die
killers
Henry
Roan
Horse
and
the
Smiths;
and
he
said
his
uncle
had
plotted
by
one
the
kilters
confessed,
e
murders.
F
One
in
each
case they
pointed
the
fin-j
|
ger
at
Hale.
And
the
story
unfolded
of
how
“Ace"
Kirby
had
been
J
double-crossed
after
be
blew
up
the
Smith
home.
But
Hale
fought
hack
held
in
the
Southwest.
in
one
of
the
bitterest
criminal
trials
ever
He
a
million-dollar
M4V4IVJ
•
bond
if
boasted
when
arrested
that
he
could
raise
necessary,
and
he
must
have
spent
a
chunk
of.
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Bid
Hale's
battery
of
lawyers
almost
succeeded
in
winning
freedom
for
him.
The
Federal
District
Court
held
in
his
first
trial
that
the
gov-
ernment
had
no
jurisdiction,
but
the
U.
S.
Supreme,
Court
reversed
this
decisidn.
The
second
trial
ended
in
a
hung
jury
after
a
defense
witness
gave
perjured
testimony.
The
perjurer
was
convicted.
Hale
was
convicted
on
the
third
trial,
but
still
the
fight
hadn't
been
won.
The
verdict
was
set
aside
on
the
ground
that
the
trial
had
been
perjury
and
threats
against
witnesses.
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nfljc
was
cuuviciea
ana
sentenced
to
imprisonment.
was
January
26,
1929.
In
Osage
County,
the
Indians’
Tribal
Council
assembled
again.
And
this
time
they
adopted
a
resolution
voicing
“our
sincere
gratitude
for
the
splendid
work
done
in
the
matter
of
the
investigating
and
bringing
to
justice
the
parties
charged
with
the
murders
of
.”
Osage
Tribe
of
Indians.
.
The
bloody
reign
of
the
“King
of
the
Osage
FBI
had~
closed
one
of
the
most
fantastic
cases
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