Statement W. H. Clark, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              MRS. W. H. CLARK, 1528 E. Admiral st, Tulsa, testified:

 I was formerly Mrs. M. J. Bryan, police matron of Tulsa. I held that position from May,  1920 to the 15th of February, 1921. On the 1st day of January, 1921, I found J. M.  Patton, chief of detectives of the police force, and Bessie Zimmerman, a woman confined  in the jail, in an act of intercourse. They were in the office of Albert Hughes, clerk at  the police station. I reported this in a written statement signed by me, and gave it to the  Chief personally. The Chief had asked me when I saw anything wrong down there to make a  written statement of it and sign it and give it to him, and I did so in this instance.  Mr. Adkinson, Police Commissioner, was mailed a copy of this report. That is, a report  that Mrs. O'Haus made of the matter with her name and mine also on it; I believe it was  signed before Albert Hughes, if I am not mistaken. Mr. Adkinson received this copy, for he  gave it to the Chief, and the Chief called me in and asked me about it and I told him what  I had seen. No action was taken that I know of, and Mr. Patton was not suspended; the woman  was taken out of jail and sent away from town and out of the state.
 There was another case down there where a girl named Ethel Brady told me that officer Lee  Irish had brought her here from Kansas and that she had lived with him four or five months  and was to become the mohter of his child. This woman was in the jail down there when she  told me this; she told me she had had intercourse with him there in the jail; the Chief  was out of town at the time and Mr. Dailey's attention was called to it, and he promised to  report it to the Chief on his return; I do not know whether this matter was reported to Mr.  Adkinson or not. I understand Irish was given a three days lay off, and the woman left  town and went back to her people in Kansas.
 Another instance was of a woman named Hazel Jefferson, she was held in jail for the  immigration authorities of Canada; she was never locked up,