R. E. Maxey, Sand Springs. Mattie Garrett says that Chief Waddell wanted more money to let her run, and she could not pay any more; that they were paying $20.00 a week; since that time Mattie has joined the church and severed business relations with her husband, Jim Garrett, who continues to run adjoining Sand Springs. The other negroes who were allowed to run: Slim Bettis, Walter Yoakum, alias Bohunk, Sug House, Mattie Ricker, Frank Washington, Sugar Blake and Will Brown. Noah Howell, 1520 E. King st. Additional witnesses in Sam Cohan case; saw Cohan taking stuff from 920 E. Haskell, springs and bed parts, a whole load of stuff; cannot enumerate. James Howell, 1520 E. King, brother of Noah Howell, saw the load of stuff going; remembers seeing rugs, springs, etc. Julius Wilson returned Monday from Omaha on the evening of the riot; he heard the boys in car hollering somthing about a race riot being on; suffering from loss of memory so that he could not tell who was in the crowd; ordered to report again tomorrow at nine o'clock. Did see Arthur Kidd and Slack Robinson in Omaha; they had run away from Tulsa on account of the riot. Gene Covington, at court house night of the riot; saw Officer Mondier when the shots began to fire, beat a hasty retreat to the second floor of the court house; afterwards saw him coming out of the Superior court room, in which there was no light.
Witness Statements taken by R. E. Maxey, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062, Box 25, Record Group 1-2, State of Oklahoma vs. John A. Gustafson, Chief of Police Tulsa (Tulsa Race Riot Investigation Vice Condition); Civil Case No. 1062, Attorney General, Oklahoma State Archives Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma City, OK
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R. E. Maxey, Sand Springs. Mattie Garrett says that Chief Waddell wanted more money to let her run, and she could not pay any more; that they were paying $20.00 a week; since that time Mattie has joined the church and severed business relations with her husband, Jim Garrett, who continues to run adjoining Sand Springs. The other negroes who were allowed to run: Slim Bettis, Walter Yoakum, alias Bohunk, Sug House, Mattie Ricker, Frank Washington, Sugar Blake and Will Brown. Noah Howell, 1520 E. King st. Additional witnesses in Sam Cohan case; saw Cohan taking stuff from 920 E. Haskell, springs and bed parts, a whole load of stuff; cannot enumerate. James Howell, 1520 E. King, brother of Noah Howell, saw the load of stuff going; remembers seeing rugs, springs, etc. Julius Wilson returned Monday from Omaha on the evening of the riot; he heard the boys in car hollering somthing about a race riot being on; suffering from loss of memory so that he could not tell who was in the crowd; ordered to report again tomorrow at nine o'clock. Did see Arthur Kidd and Slack Robinson in Omaha; they had run away from Tulsa on account of the riot. Gene Covington, at court house night of the riot; saw Officer Mondier when the shots began to fire, beat a hasty retreat to the second floor of the court house; afterwards saw him coming out of the Superior court room, in which there was no light.
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