Statement E. M. Meyers, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              E. M. MEYERS, 1168 N. Boston, Tulsa, testified as follows:

  I lost a Buick seven passenger car In Tulsa on the night of March 17th, 1921, from in front of my  house, 1168 Boston street. They were laying a walk to my garage and I left the car in front of the house that night, and I felt uneasy, and woke up at four o'clock next morning and the car was gone; I called the Police department immediately and gave them a description of the car, it was a 1919 model rid had been repainted and re-covered and was in good shape; I gave them the engine and tag number, and told them I would give $100 reward for the recovery, and authorized them to call all the towns near and charge to my phone; the clerk asked me if they had  my permission to do that; I called up the Sheriff and asked him if he had anything to suggest, and he said I better have cards printed and circulated; I went down to police station and told the Dest Sergeant that I was going to have these cards printed, and hesaid "Bay Ward is out on his round now, and I imagine when he gets back he will have your car located." I went down anyway and got the cards printed, and when I went back to police station with them, Bay Ward was there and said he had the car located; that was about 10 a.m. I asked him where the car was and he said it was out in a garage in town, and he wanted me to leave it there all day, because three men had brought it in there about five o'clock that morning, and were to be back after it at seven o'clock that night; I told him if it would help to catch the thief I would leave it. I didn't do anything more about it until that evening at seven o'clock, and I called the police station and they said Ward was out. I came on down to the police station, and Mr. Patton aid Roy Meacham were there; I had not been there long when somebody called over the phone and Roy Meachem answered and says "Yes, he is here now"; he turned to me and said that Bay Ward bad been watching for the fellows that took my car and asked if I wanted to go out there with him; we got in a car and drove out there; we drove out between the Texas and the Carter warehouses, and drove along north, and Bay Ward and another fellow I didn't know stepped out in the mad end got in the ear with us,