Witness Statements taken by R. E. Maxey, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              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.