Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-09

ward. to hurl the word liar at she
honorable gray head of Chief OF Po-
lice Ed Lucas.
How they did roll and troll the
short and ugly upon their truth
seeking" honest-government seeking"
tongues!
Mrs. Ecker Indignant.
Mrs. Ecker is indignant because
Chief Lucas was quoted as saying In
Sunday mornings World that "he had
found more stolen cars at Eugene
Augustus garage" at 1912 Admiral,
where he lived, than In any other
place in the city. Mrs. Ecker said
the chief "is no gentleman" IL he
doesn't retract.
The World must plead guilty to
this mistake itself. and does II cheer
fully. and cheerfully corrects it, 1t
was very pardonable error however,
as The World will proceed to show.
The chief did say that he found
more stolen cars at Augustus garage
than at any other place in Tulsa but
he did not say the garage was at 1912
Admiral. He said 1t was on Cincinnati,
between First and Second. The World
representative who wrote the inter-
view got this location confused with
Mrs. Ecker's home because II was at
Mrs. Ecker's home that the chief and
his mon found the Chandler automo-
bile stripped of its wheels--not Au-
gustus' automobile, as the Page pub
llcations continue to claim, but the
automobile that was stolen from a
Mr.. Rush at Oklahoma City, and
which Rush identified, and the insur-
ance firm at Oklahoma City that car
ried a policy on It identified The
same automobile that after II had
been stolen from Rush and later came
into Augustus hands, the latter, with
his partner. took up In Kansas and
tried to sell, The same automobile
that the police took from Augustus
and later arrested him and threw him
In jail on charge of stealing it. and
for which he would have been prose-
cuted and no doubt convicted had the
government not come along and taken
him from Chief Lucas control and
sent him to the army.
The innocent" Augustus appears to
nave had two garages" the one on
Cincinnati and the one at Mrs Ecker's
residence, 1912 Admiral. When the
police got so hot on his trail that he
was afraid to longer store the cars at
the Cincinnati street garage" where
the chief did say and reiterates, he
got so many stolen cars Augustus
closed that place and was using Mrs.
Ecker's garage.
So The World apologies to Mrs.
Ecker for the error. 1t admits that
1t got Augustus garage mixed-he had
too many.
Mrs. Ecker has had an interesting
career in Tulsa during the eight years
she told the Page organs she has lived
here. Fer the past two years they say
she has lived at her present home.
They did not tell where she lived for
the six years preceding the last two.
Perhaps they did not know. Perhaps
Mrs. Ecker did not think to tell them.
Mrs. Ecker was formerly proprietor
of the West Shirley rooms, eos x East
Second street, and one of her most
distinguished roomers at that time was
Eugene Gooch, notorious bootlegger,
who was often in trouble with the
officers for his underworld activities
Mrs. Ecker and Gooch were great
friends. She was his "official' bonds
man. or tried to be, for she appeared
in the courts at least once to secure
his liberty Where Gene Is now the
police don't know, but Mrs. Ecker
prospered so at the West Shirley that
she Is now living on q boulevard and
owns a car.
Mrs. Ecker frankly admits she made
money on Second street. The only
trouble with the West Shirley place.
she said yesterday, was that sit didn't
have enough rooms" so evidently Mrs.
Ecker had a full house" every night.
How many times the West Shirley
was raided by police during Mrs.
Ecker's administration is another story
that may be told later.
The Page publications say Augustus
lgA1 Lt.tf 4. IL
said was his and which he is now
driving about In Oklahoma City, "in
full view of passersby" for days at Mrs.
Ecker's place.
The kind of work" Augustus had
done on Rush's Chandler was that he
had chiseled the number from the
motor and painted both motor and
radiator a heavy. screaming yellow,
and when the officers pressed him why
these parts were yellow he told them
they came that way when he
bought" the carl
He had also removed the wheels and
locked them In Mrs. Ecker's garage.
There Chief Lucas found them, after
breaking open the door, put them
back on and drove the machine to the
police station.
An hour or two later, Augustus ap-
peared at the station and set up his
claim 10 the car and IL was at this
time that he was pressed so closely by
the police as to why he had painted
the engine and motor yellow. He be-
came exceedingly nervous and got
away as quickly as possible.
I'VE should have held that fellow
while. he was here" Chief Lucas told
his men when he learned Augustus
had gone.
From that time on the officers
searched the city for the purpose OF
arresting Augustus and only succeeded
in apprehending him the day before
the drafted soldiers left for the train
ing camp. Thru Judge Brown, to
whom AuAIstus had gone to give q
power of attorney" to Some one to
sell the car. Chief Lucas learned OF
Augustus whereabouts and nabbed
him.
Much more could be written about
the Page organs greatly wronged
Greek hero" but it's unnecessary. as
everybody In Tulsa except the Page
hirelings, according to public opinion
expressed on the streets the past two
days. is already convinced that Chief
Lucas and his men Jumped lust an
ordinary automobile thief when they