The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-06
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MID-C0NTINENT
county Attorneys Office
Prepares Petition to
District Court
CLAIM PARK NUISANCE
Bavs and Assistants Capture
40 Persons and Evidence
\ in Midnight Raid

District Judge Albert c. Hunt will
ba asked by the county attorneys
office. re. resenting the state OF Ok
lahoma. Wednesday morning TO Is
sln a Temporal injunction against
tba oueration OF Mld-Continent park
about one-half mile west of West
Tulsa on the Tulsa Sapulpa road.
Tho preparation Of an injunction pc
tltion Tuesday followed a raid by
county Investigator. +. j. Bays on
the park early Sunday morning.
when more than forty arrests were
made aud more than hundred par
ticlpants in wild midnight reyolries
escaped.
defendants named In the petition
arg M j. McNul'y, 1r, former city
commissioner and Carl Gray, said to
M the principal owners and opera
fors OF the park, which consists
mostly Of a dog racing track and a
grandsand under which is a dance
floor and other paraphernalia.
"Al other owners, occupants and
propretors, their agents, servants
and employees OF the premises known
aa the Mld-Continent park" are in
cuded in the petition.
Claim Liquors Sold.
This petition, which covers eight
Nld-Continent park Is IA place
where intoxicating, spurious vinous,
fermented and malt liquors and imi-
tat.ons and substitutes thereof, and
malt LIQUORS OF all kinds and de-
scriptions, both medicated and un-
medicated, which contain as much as
one-han Of / per cent alcohol have
been sold.
a THAT the said defendants. NJ j.
tcNulty, jr., Carl Gray and others
known TO the plaintiff are the prop
erty owners of the legal title of said
premises, or that said defendants
NJ j. McNulty, Jr, Carl Gray and
others unknown TO the plaintiff are
Ne lcssees or sub-lessees of said
Tremises aforesaid" and that these
persons had knowledge that liquors
we're being sold at this location,
Included with the petition are
three exhibits N the form of affi-
daylts OF Morris Bolman, Barney
Elmets and b. V. Short, confirming
the statements that intoxicated
liquors are sold at Mid-Continent
park, together with affidavits from
Investigator Bays, Constable John
Ghormley, Constable II. w. Woode,
and Constable Elmer Mercer that 10
bottles. all partly filled with corn
whisky were found on and under
tables at the time of the raid Sun
day morning.
Would Stop Races.
II the injunction Is granted by
Judge Hunt in accordance with the
request OF the county attorneys Of
flee II will close not only the dance
halls and dining rooms but also the
dog races, which have been held al
most every night and occasionally
during afternoons for the past year
The petition asks that the said
buildings and enclosures OF any ma
ture whatsoever, located and situated
on the site OF what is known as Mid
Continent park, be declared a com
mon nuisance under the laws of the
state OF oklahoma, and that the
sheriff Of Tulsa county, or his law
ful deputy be directed 10 abate and
suppress such place by Immediately
shutting up the same and by Sc
curely padlocking the doors and en-
frances to ali buildings and en-
closures"
The county attorneys office is in
possession of the names of the 40
who were arrested Sunday morning
and many OF them may be used as
witnesses ic the necessity arises, As
sistant County Attorney John Goldes-
berry said Tuesday. II is understood
number have already admitted to
Goldesberry and Bays that liquor was
freely sold to them and their friends