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.
Statement of A. O. Burton, 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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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.
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