Show W HITE ITE SLAYER S SUSPECTED rN IN SAGE F Federal deral Officials and Oklahoma Ok- Ok lahoma Authorities Con- Con Iud Secret Probe Redskins Red- Red skins Ref Refuse Refuge se to Talk t Tw Twenty nty enty Owners of abIe Oil Holdings Believed Believed Be- Be Victims of Killer fin in ibIe 1 Past Two Years r PAWHUSKA PASI Okla Okia March l 12 By U. U P. P p.- p. More F.-More More than a dozen witneSSeS witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses were ere here today to testify I Investigation Into the murders murders mur mur- ders of at least twenty rich Osage Indians In the last two years The probe Is being conducted by the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of ot the states state's attorney general generel gen gen- eral erel and the United States department depart depart- m ment nt of justice Investigators belle believe that some white man In the section is at the bottom of the crimes ana and that he hei heh hem i h m s the Indians so intimidated they will not talk When questioned the Interrogators were at able le to get gety only y a few grunts from the Indians PROCEEDINGS SECRET t testimony Testimony taken In the court of inquiry Is to be held secret It was that following the exam- exam nIng of today several arI arrests ar ar- ar- ar rests I would be made t he hc Indians met death in various was ways Anna Brown a full blood O OS Osage go gc was found dead in an Isol Isolated Iso Iso- l lit t d. d wood about two years ago Decomposition had set in and it was snot not possible to determine the tbs i irner winner of ot her death Charles also a full blood was a few tew days I liter lter ter He had shot twice in the head K 4 dynamite explosion killed Bill Smith South J his ls wife and their maid X Nettle eltie Ule Brookshire at Fairfield Okla Okia in 1923 irs was a sister of ot Anna Br wp It KILLED IN AUTO tiza Bigheart another sister of ot ofa Anna Aa a Brown died mysteriously in Oklahoma City a few weeks later Roan was found behind the steering coring wheel of ot his automobile on 1 i onely road near Fairfax Okla j bullet holes In his body Others ere r said to have been poisoned I These pese ieso Indians and many others Ire t records of whose deaths were I 11 obtainable i owned estates 1 mounting 9 nUng up into the hundreds of of dollars and also had hadO Incomes O |