Agent John Burger Credit 37Agent Burger informed White that he had once brought Rose
Osage and Joe to the sheriff’s office for questioning. The two
suspects were placed in separate rooms and left to stir. When
Agent Burger interrogated Rose, she insisted that she’d nothing to
do with Anna’s killing. “I never had a quarrel or fight with Anna,”
she stated. Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s
words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.”
Another investigator had separately asked Joe, “Were you thick
with Annie?”
“No, I was never,” he said.
Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921,
they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of
Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house. The owner of