14: DYING WORDS
“If Bill Smith”: Grand jury testimony of David Shoun, NARA-FW.
“often leave”: Ibid.
“If she says”: Ibid.
“He never did say”: Grand jury testimony of James Shoun, NARA-FW.
“Gentlemen, it is a mystery”: Grand jury testimony of David E. Johnson, NARA-FW.
“You know, I only”: Ibid.
“I would hate”: Grand jury testimony of James Shoun, NARA-FW.
“If he did”: Report of Smith, Street, Burger, and Murphy, Sept. 1, 1925, FBI.
“You understand in your study of”: Grand jury testimony of David Shoun, NARA-FW.
“Did he know what”: Ibid.
“The blackest chapter”: Survey of Conditions of Indians, 23018.
“an orgy of graft”: Gertrude Bonnin, “Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft
and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes and Others,” 1924, HSP.
“shamelessly and openly”: Ibid.
“A group of traders”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 10, 1925.
“For her and her”: Memorandum by Gertrude Bonnin, “Case of Martha Axe Roberts,”
Dec. 3, 1923, HSP.
“There is no hope”: Ibid.
“Your money”: Shepherd, “Lo, the Rich Indian!”
15: THE HIDDEN FACE
“controlled everything”: Report by Wren, Davis, and Parker, Sept. 10, 1925, FBI.
“Hells bells”: Grand jury testimony of John McLean, NARA-FW.
“drunken Indian”: Ibid.
“I don’t think it”: Grand jury testimony of Alfred T. Hall, NARA-FW.
“I knew the questions”: Tulsa Tribune, Aug. 6, 1926.
“Photographs taken by means”: Bert Farrar to Roy St. Lewis, Dec. 22, 1928, NARA-FW.
“Absolutely”: Grand jury testimony of John McLean, NARA-FW.
“Bill, what are you”: Grand jury testimony of W. H. Aaron, NARA-FW.
“Hell, yes”: U.S. v. John Ramsey and William K. Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW.
“If I were you”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“notorious relations”: Report by Burger and Weiss, Aug. 12, 1924, FBI.
“I, like many”: Hale’s application for clemency, Nov. 15, 1935, NARA-CP.
“is absolutely controlled”: Report by Wright, April 5, 1923, FBI.
“capable of anything”: Report by Weiss and Burger, Jan. 10, 1924, FBI.
“MOLLIE appears”: Report titled “The Osage Murders,” Feb. 3, 1926, FBI.