BARNEY CLEAVER, deputy sheriff, testified as follows:
I am deputy sheriff of Tulsa County. Gurley's Hotel on North Greenwood is a dope joint; I got two women there last Saturday loaded; the place has been running about eight months. I have arrested people there and the police knew where they came from, the Captain and all of them have been through the place; I have told them to have it stopped, but no action has been taken to close it; a fellow named Smithy is the head of the place, and have two boys and a girl that sell dope; Smithy is a regular dope peddler, I have know him since 1911, and he has had a police commission from Adkinson; they caught him just the other day with 14 bottles of morphine and cocaine and a big ball of wax, and then they took his commission away from him; when we went to search his place, he always showed that commission, and carried a gun.
Statement of Barney Cleaver, 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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BARNEY CLEAVER, deputy sheriff, testified as follows:
I am deputy sheriff of Tulsa County. Gurley's Hotel on North Greenwood is a dope joint; I got two women there last Saturday loaded; the place has been running about eight months. I have arrested people there and the police knew where they came from, the Captain and all of them have been through the place; I have told them to have it stopped, but no action has been taken to close it; a fellow named Smithy is the head of the place, and have two boys and a girl that sell dope; Smithy is a regular dope peddler, I have know him since 1911, and he has had a police commission from Adkinson; they caught him just the other day with 14 bottles of morphine and cocaine and a big ball of wax, and then they took his commission away from him; when we went to search his place, he always showed that commission, and carried a gun.
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001_Statement Barney Cleaver, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062; Page 1
