Report on Vice Conditions in Tulsa, 1921 May 27

              Tulsa, Okla., May 27th, 1921.

 Mrs. Catherine Van Leuven,
 Assistant Attorney General,
 State Capitol,
 Oklahoma City, Okla.

 Dear Madam:

 I herewith hand you a report of an investigation which I made  on the night of the 18th, in company with three other men. We left my  office about 11:30 P. M. and stopped at a place out on Admiral, but it  was closed. They said the landlady was ill. Then we drove out north of  town in the negro section and stopped at one of Pretty Belle's  houses, located on North Lansing close to the 1200 block. There were  two automobiles standing in front of this house when we drove up and  three of us went in. We found a colored man playing the piano and three  or four colored fellows sitting around in front room. We went into a room  in the rear of this, and three white girls were in there and a colored  man. They had evidently just been served with something to drink  as the glasses were sitting on the table. We asked them what they had  been drinking and they said choc. One of the girls was quite drunk and  they were just ready to start out when we went in. The girl that was  drunk did not want to leave when we went in, and insisted on us having  a drink of corn whiskey with her, so we went into a small rear room  where the colored man poured some corn whiskey out of a little tea pot.  As there was only one glass we had to drink one after the other. The  colored fellow and this girl went out of the room and one of men with me  found a little bottle in the cubboard and poured some of the corn  whiskey out of the tea pot into it, which we brough with us. We also  found a pop bottle and filled it up with choc, which we brought with us.  The three girls left before we did and just as they went out a party of  four white girls with young men came in. Most of these girls were quite  young. The piano player started up and the girls began to dance just as  we were leaving. We did not see them drink anything. Then we started  away in our