The open prairie north of Pawhuska Credit 74In December 1926, Peace suspected that his wife, who was
white, was poisoning him. As the documents confirmed, he went
to see the attorney Comstock, whom Webb described as one of the
few decent white attorneys at the time. Peace wanted to get a
divorce and change his will to disinherit his wife. A witness later
testified that Peace had claimed his wife was feeding him “some
kind of poison, that she was killing him.”
When I asked Webb how her grandfather might have been
poisoned, she said, “There were these doctors. They were brothers.
My mother said that everyone knew that’s where people would get
the dope to poison the Osage.”
“What was their name?” I asked.
“The Shouns.”
I remembered the Shouns. They were the doctors who had
claimed that the bullet that had killed Anna Brown had
disappeared. The doctors who had initially concealed that Bill
Smith had given a last statement incriminating Hale and who had