Statement A. O. Burton, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              A. 0. BURTON, Verne Station, Tulsa County, testified as follows;

  I lost a Buick Roadster on the 18th of February, 1921; Roy Meachem took it away from me and said it was a stolen car; they took me to the city jail and questioned me about the car, and I told them how I bought it and what I paid for it, who I bought it from, and told them I put my bill of sale on record at the court house with the rest of my papers, and they put me in jail and then got a charge from Osage County against me for stealing a car and they took me up there; I made bond and they set the trial for the 3d day of March; I went up there ready to fight then, and not a soul appeared against me; I came back and replevined my car, and Mr. Coffey, now assistant county attorney, went down to the police station and asked them for the car; they said they would have it next morning for me, so when we went down for it next morning they said "If you want that car, find it"; Bay Ward and Chief Gustaffsen said that to the deputy when he served the writ of replevin on them; the deputy's name was Henry something; I can't recall his last name. I have never recovered the car yet; I was in Sand Springs on the 7th and I saw my car go through town with a Dodge in front of it; and I got in a car and followed to make sure whether it was mine; we overtook them up by Fisher, about ten miles west, w .d I know it was mine by the license number and a scar on the fender and the tires just like when it was taken. The license number was 24399, this year's license, 1921 model; the engine number is on the bill of sale; Mr. Coffey has that in his possession. Roy Meacham took the car from me. None of them have ever undertaken to tell me what they did with the car.