Operative No. 36 Reports on the Regal Hotel, 218-A North Main.
I checked in Room No. 354 at 7:30 P. M. After sitting in the lobby until 8:15 P. M. I decided to leave and returned at 9:30 P. M. Outside the hotel I met Charles Bailey and asked if I could get a girl at the Regal. He said I could get anything I wanted there. We then got a man by the name of Myers, a foreman for the Shaw Motor Company. Myers said he formerly worked at a garage underneath the Regal; that he put in all of his spare time in the Regal Hotel, and anything went as long as he had the money. I asked if he had to dodge around the proprietor and he said "No, they are all O. K. up there". After I treated Bailey and Myers to a soft drink I left them and met Roy Downing at 23 North Main Street. Roy Downing said there were several girls stopping at the Regal, but they put in their time at the other rooming houses over town as Mr. Miller doesn't openly permit them to fill dates at the Regal. I then returned to the hotel and interviewed Mr. Miller, the Proprietor. Mr. Miller said the place got filled up with girls and that he made a cleaning up three weeks ago and got rid of them all. I saw four girls in the lobby that had rooms on the second floor. I asked Mr. Miller who they were and he said they were show girls. Mr. Miller and his daughter, Mrs. Withrow, own the place. Mr. Miller works days and Mrs. Withrow's son works nights. I met Mr. Kilgire, salesman for the Mack Truck Company, who has Room 361 at the Regal, and I told Mr. Kilgore I wanted to get some whiskey and wild women, so he called the night clerk and asked him to get a pint but the clerk claimed he hadn't got any whiskey in sometime and that he didn't know just where to get it now. At one A. M. a young man knocked at my door and said the night clerk sent him up to me to get me some whiskey. I gave him $7.00 to get a pint and
Report on Vice Conditions in Tulsa, 1921 May 16, 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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Operative No. 36 Reports on the Regal Hotel, 218-A North Main.
I checked in Room No. 354 at 7:30 P. M. After sitting in the lobby until 8:15 P. M. I decided to leave and returned at 9:30 P. M. Outside the hotel I met Charles Bailey and asked if I could get a girl at the Regal. He said I could get anything I wanted there. We then got a man by the name of Myers, a foreman for the Shaw Motor Company. Myers said he formerly worked at a garage underneath the Regal; that he put in all of his spare time in the Regal Hotel, and anything went as long as he had the money. I asked if he had to dodge around the proprietor and he said "No, they are all O. K. up there". After I treated Bailey and Myers to a soft drink I left them and met Roy Downing at 23 North Main Street. Roy Downing said there were several girls stopping at the Regal, but they put in their time at the other rooming houses over town as Mr. Miller doesn't openly permit them to fill dates at the Regal. I then returned to the hotel and interviewed Mr. Miller, the Proprietor. Mr. Miller said the place got filled up with girls and that he made a cleaning up three weeks ago and got rid of them all. I saw four girls in the lobby that had rooms on the second floor. I asked Mr. Miller who they were and he said they were show girls. Mr. Miller and his daughter, Mrs. Withrow, own the place. Mr. Miller works days and Mrs. Withrow's son works nights. I met Mr. Kilgire, salesman for the Mack Truck Company, who has Room 361 at the Regal, and I told Mr. Kilgore I wanted to get some whiskey and wild women, so he called the night clerk and asked him to get a pint but the clerk claimed he hadn't got any whiskey in sometime and that he didn't know just where to get it now. At one A. M. a young man knocked at my door and said the night clerk sent him up to me to get me some whiskey. I gave him $7.00 to get a pint and
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