Statement W. T. Lowtenbille, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              W. T. Lowtenbille, Tulsa, Okla., testified as follows:

 I am a real estate salesman in Tulsa at the present time. I had  a Ford car stolen in front of 510 1/2 South Main stree, January 8th, this year. I reported it to the Desk Sergeant at police station  immediately; he took the report and told me to report it also to Mr.  Ward. I placed a $50.00 reward at the time, and the next day raised  it to $100; I called on Mr. Ward every day, and in about three weeks  he told me the car had been found, that it was at the Mason Garage on  Boulder; we went down together and examined the machine, and verified  the numbers and description; I was told there was three days storage  on it; I paid it and took the car and went with Mr. Ward to my office  and wrote him a check for the $100 reward. When I got the machine home  I saw that it had been stripped; the shock absorbers were gone; the rear  cushion was gone; the front cushion had been changed for an old one; the  speedometer was gone; the cut out and the original exhaust pipe had been  taken out and another exhaust pipe put in without any cutout; the tool  box and all its tools were gone; the hood was gone; the lights had been  changed and also the tires; the rear tail light had been taken off; I also  had several extra tools in the car, not Ford tools, they were all gone.  That afternoon I went to Mr. Ward's office and told him the condition of  the car, and told him when I offered that reward I expected the car to be  returned in good condition; it was worth practically nothing the way it  was returned. He indicated there would be nothing doing in the return of  any part of the reward, and said the reward didn't go to him, but to the  police department relief fund; I talked to him several times afterward  about it, but he said there would be none of it returned.