Prosecutor Roy St. Lewis reviewing the voluminous Osage
murder case files Credit 55Soon after the grand jury proceedings began, in early January,
one of Hale’s cronies—a pastor—was charged with committing
perjury on the stand. At a later proceeding, another associate was
arrested for trying to intoxicate witnesses. As the trial neared,
crooked private eyes began trailing witnesses and even trying to
make them disappear. The bureau put out a physical description
for one private eye who agents feared might be hired as an
assassin: “Long face...gray suit and light Fedora hat...several gold
teeth...has reputation as being very cunning and ‘slippery.’ ”
Another gunman was hired to assassinate Kelsie Morrison’s
former wife, Katherine Cole, who was Osage and had agreed to
testify for the prosecution. The gunman later recalled, “Kelsie said
that he wanted to make some arrangement to get shed of