The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-09
Witness Oliver on the Stand, Tells Of
the Midnight Raids and the
Burning Of Tobacco
Warehouses.
DR.. AMOS WAS THE CHIEF
One Squad Of Men Captured the Police
While the Other suad Set
Fire To The
Buildings.

HOPKINSvILLE, KY, March g.
Before "a crowded courtroom Milton
Oliver, confessed night rider, revealed
the secrets of the band and told OF
the attack on Hopkinsville when two
tobacco warehouses were burned. Oil
ver's story, the first from the inside
of the marauding organization, Great
ed sensation. He declared that DIR.
David A. Amos, who is on trial was a
leader of the bond. The exposures will
be continued.
Since Oliver agreed to turn states
evidence and testify against his con
federates his life has been attempted
several times and during the last
few months he has been guarded con-
stantly by state militia.
! When Oliver took the stand he said
he joined the band in 1906 and that
he had known DR.. Amos, four or
| five years previously. DR.. Amos, he
declared, was the prime mover of the
band and gave the instructions the
night Of the raid.
/ Oliver said his lodge was known as
the Nabbs' Schoolhouse Lodge and the
night of the Hopkinsville raid the
members met at Wallonia, where they
were mobolized with the Wallonia
4 Lodge. No other lodges gathered al
i Wallonia, but on the way to Hopkins
( vile they were joined by several 9th
er neighborhood lodges.
The Nabbs' SchooIhouse Lodge wa:
designated Squad No. 2 the night o
1.-THE raid and was ordered to capture
the police and hold them while the
/, other bands burned the warehouses
The Wallonia Lodge was designated
Squad No. /, and it was this bant
that was to lead the firebugs, he said
However, on the road to Hopkinsville
Oliver said he became lost from hi.
band and fell in with Squad No. ant
was with them when the building
were burned
Arriving at a point three miles fro1i
town, the raiders left their horses an:
vehicles and marched into the out
/ skirts over the Illinois Central bridge
Just outside of town, he testified, d,
Amos lined them up and gave then
, final instructions after which Squa,
! No. went after the police and the 9th
ers went to the factories and set ther
Y on fire.
' At the first warehouse they brok
, into the office and piled chairs an
boxes on the floor, and after saturat
t ing the pile with oil, applied the torcf
: After the fire had gained good head
9 way they wens to the second factory
q and it, too, was soon ablaze. At sis
nal they returned to the center c
/, the town and coon departed, the band
breaking up into parties of two an
j three.
!. charges, but who are not on tria
with DIR. Amos, were mentioned b
!. Oliver as being members of the rait
, ing party. He said Guy Dunning an
B. Malone were the captains o.. tn
!, two squads. He testified that Ky rod
from Wallonia with Irving Glass. an
: also that Newton Nichols and job
Robinson were in the party. All {
. these men have been indicted an
their trials will follow that of D.
Amos.
Returning to the center of the tow
. after the warehouses were fired, Oil
:, er said, he understood DR.. Amos ha
been wounded in the shooting follow
q ing the capture of the police. He test
!. fled that he did not see the doctor a
ter the orders to burn the building
: had been given, but understood b
had been carried home by friends.