Statement Luther James, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062

              State of Oklahoma
 vs.
 Curley Walker, Henry Jamison, Ed Lockett, Joe Bassett, Henry Davis, Pid  Tucker, Joe Miller, Henry VanDyke, F. Foster, Olie B. Mann, Charlie Knox,  Peg Leg Taylor, Will Moore, Frank Nelson, Virgil Rowe, Andy Brown, Mose  Fitzgerald, Russell Bros., E. E. Cotton.

 Witnesses:
 Barney Cleaver, O. W. Gurley, Luther James, J. L. Mallett, W. E. Dudley,  Ira Short, Henry Sowders, Lester Curie, H. R. Blake, Pete Joyce.

 Luther James, attorneyat-law, testified that I was here at time of riot; things were rather lax in city prior to riot; joints were reported running  over town. At 9:30 May 31st I found out there was a disturbance; came to  court house and saw 200 or 300 people. I saw a car full of negroes  driving through the streets with guns; I saw Bill McCullough and told him  those negroes would cause trouble; McCullough tried to talk to them, and  they got out and stood in single file. W. G. Daggs was killed near  Boulder and Sixth street. I was under the impression that a man with  authority could have stopped and disarmed them. I saw Chief of Police on  south side of court house on top step, talking; I did not see any officer  except the Chief; I walked in the court house and met McCullough in about  15 feet of his door; I told him these negroes were going to make trouble,  and he said he had told them to go home; he went out and told the whites  to go home, and one said "they said you told them to come up here."  McCullough said "I did not" and a negro said you did tell us to come. I  did not see an officer try to disarm a negro; I thought it might have  been done; the negroes came back and got out of the automobile and lined  up, and the shooting began; I did not see an officer. I saw Kirkpatrick  line up a line of men to march; I did not see any white people armed