Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-29
MODERN kU KLUX
KHAN AT WORK IN
KENTUCKY HILLS
Cincinnati Pacifist Leader
Kidnapped and Beaten
Left Alone but Found His
Way to Lawrence.

Way to Lawrence.
Cincinnati' O., Oct. 2s,-stripped of
his clothing and beaten numerically,
Herbert S. Bigelow, pacifist leader and
pastor Of the Peoples church here. was
found at Lawrence, KY, today. He
had been kidnapped by a band of men In
81 automobiles, who turned him loose
after dipping his head in crude petro
leum.
All evidence indicates he was the
victim Of an oath bound organization,
sworn to wreak vengeance on pacificts
and others not in accord with the gov
ernment's war policies.
Bigelow was president Of the recent
Ohio constitutional convention.
Bigelow was kidnapped at p. m,
Sunday as he was about to enter a hall
to address a meeting Of Socialists.
With him were Professor Edward ].
Cantrell, Minneapolis, and Vernon
Rose, Kansas City. Two men ap-
preached Bigelow, seized him, hand
cuffed him and thrust him into a
waiting auto. Those with Bigelow sup
posed he had been taken by federal
officers.
The kidnapers were traced to La
tonia, where they had rendezvous
with another posse.
STRANGE PROCESSION.
Farmers saw n strange procession of
automobiles winding through the Ken
tucky hills, and counted 81 machines.
The vendetta returned from the scene
Of the whiteoapping singly. Automo-
bile parties of searchers were unable
to apprehend them.
Bigelow has received vague threats
recently, but refused to heed them.
There were rumors that a secret or
ganization had been formed in Ken
tucky to teach a lesson to pacifists."
Sunday Bigelow's auto was followed
about Cincinnati by another mac hine.
TELLS OF EXPERIENCES.
Biselow was able to tell of his ex-
perience. He had entered a physicians
office in Florence at $50 a. m, and
remained there until morning.
His back and legs were lacerated
and a portion of his hair had been cut
off
After he had been stripped his hands
a
leader of the vigilantes said; in the
name Of the women and children of
Belgium and France. strike!'
Then the first blow fell. Several
lashes fell across his back. Then there
was a pause, said Bigelow.
Apparently the man with the whip
was waiting for orders" he said.
Then the whip came down on my
back again. ! believe there were ten
or dozen lashes."
LIKE THE kU-kLUx klAN.
"The men were masked and wore
white aprons. They reminded me of
the Ku-Klux Klan figures 1 saw in
The Birth Of a Nation
After l had been seized and hand
cuffed, l was taken out into the coun-
try.
"A sack was thrown over my head.
My feet were tied. / had no notion of
either time or distance. could tell
only that we were going over rough
roads and smooth ones. Nothing was
said.
AT last we came to a stop. I was
lifted out OF the automobile and the
sack was taken off my head.
They led me up a hill to q school
house and took me to a tree to which
they tied me.
off with his Clothes" somebody
my Clothes were taken off my back
Then follows Bigelow's description Of
the lashing as told above.
They cut off some Of my hair"
thing out of a bottle over my head. I
judged it was crude oil.
TWO LEFT ON GUARD.
THE men then left me, except two
who remained to guard me. One had
a revolver.
when the others were gone a con-
siderable time. my guards also left me
after telling me not to go away for
ten minutes.
They instructed me to go to a cer-
tain house, where / would get direc-
tions,
1T occurred to me that the oil had
been poured on my head so that 1
might be identified at the house to
which l had been directed.
Il feared something more was in
ioi 'i'0 'heic' 81 "aiheu away
in the opposite direction, and finally
reached Florence"
WARNED TO LEAVE.
Bigelow said that in parting, his
kidnapers told him he must leave Gin
cinnati within 36 hours and stay away
from there during the rest of the war.
He said today he would stay in Gin
cinnati. IL given proper protection by
federal authorities.
LONDON STOCKS DECLINE.
London. Oct. 29.--Public uneasiness
over the success of the German drive
on italy was reflection on a general
decline of the stock market today,
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