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,
Statement of W. H. Clark, 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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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,
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