Statement of A. W. Lucas: Q State your name? A A. W. Lucas. Q Where do you live, Mr. Lucas? A Skiatook, this county. Q What is your business? A I am in the banking business. Q Do you know a girl named Lona Sisson? A Yes. Q Was this girl a domestic in your home? A Yes. Q Just state briefly the occasion of your finding her in trouble and what happened? A Well, the housekeeper found her one night in the act of committing suicide and we sought to find the reason and she told us. Q Did she tell you she was in a pregnant condition? A Yes, I quizzed her to find out whether it was a fifty-fifty deal, to find out whether it was her fault or his fault, and I found that she was entirely innocent in the matter and had been persuaded under repeated promises of marriage and he finally told her he would not marry her after she was in this condition and just laughed at her and left, so I suggested to her what she could do and we came here and stated the facts to the county attorney. Q The county attorney, Mr. Seaver? A No, we first talked to Mr. Goldsberry and he was very nice about it, the next time I saw Seaver, a warrant was sworn out and the sheriff wired to a town in Missouri, Bozarth, I think, I got the facts from the sheriff that the county attorney's office, thru Mr. Seaver, to let him go that the expense would be too great to bring him back and he would probably show up some time and the girl could wait. When they told me that I came back down here. Q Did you have a conversation with Mr. Seaver when you came down here
Statement of A. W. Lucas, 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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Statement of A. W. Lucas: Q State your name? A A. W. Lucas. Q Where do you live, Mr. Lucas? A Skiatook, this county. Q What is your business? A I am in the banking business. Q Do you know a girl named Lona Sisson? A Yes. Q Was this girl a domestic in your home? A Yes. Q Just state briefly the occasion of your finding her in trouble and what happened? A Well, the housekeeper found her one night in the act of committing suicide and we sought to find the reason and she told us. Q Did she tell you she was in a pregnant condition? A Yes, I quizzed her to find out whether it was a fifty-fifty deal, to find out whether it was her fault or his fault, and I found that she was entirely innocent in the matter and had been persuaded under repeated promises of marriage and he finally told her he would not marry her after she was in this condition and just laughed at her and left, so I suggested to her what she could do and we came here and stated the facts to the county attorney. Q The county attorney, Mr. Seaver? A No, we first talked to Mr. Goldsberry and he was very nice about it, the next time I saw Seaver, a warrant was sworn out and the sheriff wired to a town in Missouri, Bozarth, I think, I got the facts from the sheriff that the county attorney's office, thru Mr. Seaver, to let him go that the expense would be too great to bring him back and he would probably show up some time and the girl could wait. When they told me that I came back down here. Q Did you have a conversation with Mr. Seaver when you came down here
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