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Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW.
“truly a valley”: Tulsa Daily World, Aug. 19, 1926.
“his hands folded”: Grand jury testimony of J. R. Rhodes, NARA-FW.
“$20 in greenback”: Ibid.
“HENRY ROAN SHOT”: Osage Chief, Feb. 9, 1923.
“Man’s judgment errs”: Charles W. Sanders, The New School Reader, Fourth Book:
Embracing a Comprehensive System of Instruction in the Principles of Elocution with a
Choice Collection of Reading Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from the Most Approved
Authors; for the Use of Academies and Higher Classes in Schools, Etc. (New York:
Vison & Phinney, 1855), 155.
And so she decided: Mollie’s secrecy regarding her marriage to Roan was later revealed in
U.S. v. John Ramsey and William K. Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW.
“Travel in any direction”: Daily Oklahoman, Jan. 6, 1929.
“do away with her”: Report by Findlay, July 13, 1923, FBI.
“paralyzing fear”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“dark cloak”: Manitowoc Herald-Times, Jan. 22, 1926.
Bill Smith confided: My description of Bill and Rita Smith during this period and of the
explosion is drawn largely from witness statements made to investigators and during
court proceedings; some details have also been gleaned from local newspaper accounts
and the unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White. For more information,
see records at NARA-CP and NARA-FW.
“Rita’s scared”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“Now that we’ve moved”: Ibid.
“expect to live”: Report by Wren, Oct. 6, 1925, FBI.
“county’s most notorious”: Osage Chief, June 22, 1923.
“I’m going to die”: Shoemaker, Road to Marble Hills, 107.
“It seemed that the night”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White,
NMSUL.
“It shook everything”: Statement by Ernest Burkhart, Jan. 6, 1926, FBI.
“It’s Bill Smith’s house”: Quoted in Hogan, Osage Murders, 66.
“It just looked”: Quoted in Gregory, Oil in Oklahoma, 56.
“Come on men”: Osage Chief, March 16, 1923.
“He was halloing”: Grand jury testimony of David Shoun, NARA-FW.
“Rita’s gone”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“Some fire”: Report by Wren, Dec. 29, 1925, FBI.
“blown to pieces”: Grand jury testimony of Horace E. Wilson, NARA-FW.
“I figured”: Grand jury testimony of F. S. Turton, NARA-FW.
“The time of the deed”: Report by Burger and Weiss, Aug. 12, 1924, FBI.