Some time the first part of July a fellow named Jones who lived across the street from me, but who has since moved, came and asked me about renting the garage in the rear of my house; we lived them at 1528 East Admiral, and he lived it would be 1527 or 1529; it was across the street and one door east. This boy brought a stranger in and he rented the garage and paid for a month in advance; he used it about ten days, the car sat there and was never moved; they put the car in it the next day after it was rented. In about ten days a motor cycle cop No. 10 came and got it; he broke the lock on the garage, then went away and said he would hunt up the owner of the car and get the key to the car, and he went away and came back with the key; he didn't call the man's name; he drove the car off and I have never seen it since. I never saw the fellow that rented the garage since, and the Jones boy moved shortly after; the motor cop didn't tell his name; I reported to the police and they didn't come out or make any inquiries about the car.
Statement of John Eckley, 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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Some time the first part of July a fellow named Jones who lived across the street from me, but who has since moved, came and asked me about renting the garage in the rear of my house; we lived them at 1528 East Admiral, and he lived it would be 1527 or 1529; it was across the street and one door east. This boy brought a stranger in and he rented the garage and paid for a month in advance; he used it about ten days, the car sat there and was never moved; they put the car in it the next day after it was rented. In about ten days a motor cycle cop No. 10 came and got it; he broke the lock on the garage, then went away and said he would hunt up the owner of the car and get the key to the car, and he went away and came back with the key; he didn't call the man's name; he drove the car off and I have never seen it since. I never saw the fellow that rented the garage since, and the Jones boy moved shortly after; the motor cop didn't tell his name; I reported to the police and they didn't come out or make any inquiries about the car.
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001_Statement John Eckley, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062; Page 1
