Statement Dan F. White, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              Statement of Dan F. White.

 Q State your name?
 A Dan F. White.
 Q Are you the same Dan F. White that testified before Mr. Short day before yesterday?
 A Yes.
 Q You did not tell us all about the Ford car deal, did you?
 A No, I didn't tell it all, because I figured it would be published in the papers, and if  I can have the assurance that this will not all come out in the papers I will tell just  how it was. You see, I have been warned not to come back to town, just since I was here the  other day before Mr. short, and I went home and got permission to carry a gun, and I  brought my gun with me today and left it at the garage and when I ge through here I will go  and get it again.
 Q None of this evidence will be made public at this time, so just go ahead and state briefly  all you know about the car you had stolen?
 Q Well, you head my statement to Mr. Short the other day about when the car was stolen and  what steps I took to recover it. Well, after all that happened, I kept making trips up here  to Tulsa to see the parties I had reported it to and who were trying to trace it, and it  seemed that they would take no interest in me; all I could get out of them was "No, we  have not heard anything." I finally got tired of it and went home and told my wife that I  was going to catch them, I was going to pretend to play the game, that it takes a crook to  catcha a crook, and I was going to catch them. I laid a plan to catch them, and I caught  them. My wife says "What are you going to do?" I says "Turn auto thief." She says "You will  get killed" and I said "No, I won't", so I came on up here and went to Mr. Guthrie. A  personal friend of mine, Dr. Hauser, told me to go to Mr. Guthrie and say he sent me. I  outlined my plan to Mr. Guthrie, and he said it would work if I was game enough to tackle it,  and said they would do anything to