Report on Vice Conditions in Tulsa, 1921 May 18

              Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 18th, 1921.

 Special Report on Vice Conditions in and Around the City of Tulsa, by  H. H. Townsend.

 For the purpose of securing first hand evidence, after a conference with  Mr. J. a. Hull and Rev. Harold Cook, we arranged an automobile party  to leave on this trip about 10 o'clock P. M. We first went to the Queen  City Livery barn, located at 110 S. Detroit, for the purpose of going  in the Kitty Brown's rooming house over same, No. 108-1/2 S. Detroit.  This rooming house was formerly known as one of the red light houses of  the city of Tulsa, and Kitty Brown was at one time one of the land ladies  of one of the red light houses. At this time, and during the past two  years, this house has been run as an open house of prostitution with a  number of girls there for this purpose at all times. On various  occasions I have had operatives investigate this place and found that  at no time has it been run as a legitimate rooming house. On this  occasion we found that a number of the girls were hanging out of the  window as we approached the place, and believe that they were warned of  some police raid we did not go inside. We then left and drove out on  Admiral across from the Admiral Hotel, or Joe Baker's place of business,  where we interviewed a woman regarding whiskey and taking a girl out with  us. She said that we were too late and that she couldn't do anything  for us at this hour. The house was dark and from indications they were all  in bed. We then drove to nigger town and went to a notorious place known  as Pretty Belle's place. At this place three of the party entered where  music and dancing was going on and secured corn whiskey and choc beer,  which they brought back to the car. While they were in the building I  remained in the automobile and while sitting there three automobile  loads of men and women, part of whom were young girls, came to the front  of the place and got out. Some of them went in and some of them remained  outside on the porch drinking from bottles furnished them by two negro  men. Two drunken