The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-23
TEXAS XII KLUXKLAN
REVIEWS REIGN With
TAR And FEATHERS
Masked and Uniformed
Bands Seize Victims in
Many Sections.
AFTER MORAL LEPERS'
Woman Stripped to Waist,
Shorn of Hair and Coat
ed With Tar.
ONE MAN DEFIES BAND
No Official or Legislative Ac-
ton Taken to Check Spread
Of Terrorism.
ONE MAN DEFIES BAND

cpect0t OeSp0tch TO IHp NEW YORK HERALD.
AUSTIN. Tex. July 22.-The Ku Kux
Khan has been reestablished in Texas
In full vigor Of the terrorism that
made 1t SO terribly feared In recon
struction days following the civil war
Events Of the last few weeks show
that such an organization is In WIDE
spread operation in this State, al
though no one outside its pale can
say who belongs to it. 1t moves
secretly.
Whipping, usually followed by a
coat of tar and feathers, seems to be
the officially prescribed punishment
for the evildoers who fall under the
ban of the Ku Klux Khan. These have
been performed by the score since the
first appearance of the masked and
uniformed men at Dallas on the night
Of April H. Not day passes that
not one or more reports Of affairs of
this kind are made.
For the most part the victims are men
Of bad repute. perhaps they are wife
heaters, bisamists. gamblers and offend
ers against the moral law. Advance
warnings are sometimes given, but not
always. Many more white men have
been whipped. tarred and feathered than
negroes. No discrimination as to race,
color or nationality is shown.
Long List of Tarrinss.
At Goose Creek two oil field workers.
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seized. given a drunnhead trial by a
band of masked men. found guilty of
Icing undesirable citizens. tarred and
feathered, carried to Houston in an
automobile and turned loose.
X. Cummings Of Waco was taken by
masked men into the country and tarred
and feathered.
AZ Fort Worth Benny Pinto was
seized by masked men, taken into the
country and tarred and feathered and
then brought back to town and dropped
into the street.
In the same city man was given
similar treatment because he had mis-
treated his wife.
At Goose Creek Will Stewart, a jitncy
driver. fell into the hands of the Ku
Klux Khan and was treated to a coat Of
tar and feathers.
At Bolton a negro named Jim Collins,
who had been charged before the Grand
Jury with making an insulting remark
to white woman, was whipped and
tarred and feathered by masked men.
brought back to town and told to walk
the streets until midnight and then
leave town. He wore placard on his
back. Whipped by the Ku Klux Khan"
Ed Fingers. who operated an oil filling
station at Dallas, was seized by masked
men, whipped for alleged cruelty to his
wife, handed five dollar bill by his tor
mentors and tol1 to leave town.
one Man Denes Clan.
DIR. Paul, physician OF Beaumont,
was taken into the country and tarred
and feathered. He was told to leave
town. but has remained. Yesterday he
received q second warning to leave or
a worse fate would befall him. DR.. Paul
eays he will nc. 80.
In Houston a lawyer was tarred and
feathered by masked men and ordered
to leave town.
w. III. Hoopinggarner. former cashier
Of a bank at Bay City. was seized by
band of masked men and tarred and
feathered.
At Lufkin wherwood vinson and Ben
Wiley received similar treatment at the
hands Of masked and ghostly uniformed
men.
J. w. Knight, a plumber OF Timpson.
was tarnsd and feathered and ordered
to leave town. He did not leave, and
five days later he was given another
and heavier coat.
n. r. Scott. a former service man who
was in tho battle of Chateau Thierry.
was driving along n country road near
his homo at Deweyville. when he was
overhauled by masked men In automo-
~ nd IA nj
feathered. and then taken to Beaumont.
where he was dumped out into the
street
Harry Adams was seized by masked
men at Glidden and beaten. but before
the tar and feathers were applied the
discovery was made that he was the
wrong man and he was given his liberty
with apologies.
Andnsw johnson. n negro beliboy in a
Dallas hotel. was taken into the coun-
try by masked men and the letters
TX X X" were branded upon his FORE
had.
Earl n. Peters OF Tyler was In Chan
der on insurance business whsn he was
assaulted by masked men who claimed
to be knights OF the Khan and robbed
of s250. He is still unconscious from the
wound he received upon tho head and
his death Is expected.
Inc only WOnan VINO mas 20 INT re-
ceivcd the attention OF the Khan was
Mrs. Beulah Johnson. who was en-
ployed In a hotel at Teneha. Masked
men grabbed her as she was sitting on
the porch of the hotel. conveyed her In
an automobile into the country. where
they stripped the upper part OF her body
OF clothing. applied n coat Of tar and
feathers and then cut off her hair. IL
was alleged that she is a bigamist.
In Dallas and many Of the other cities
and towns of the State there have been
parades Of masked men who claim TO
belong to the Ku KIux Khan. More than
four hundred men were In the parade In
Dallas. Many public warnings TO law
and moral lepers have been
posted in public places over the State.
These warnings are signed by the Ku
I<lux Khan.
The local and State authorities have
as yet done nothing toward exposing
the organization. Members OF the Lcgis-
Iature have been discussing the subject.
but no bill or resolution relating TO the
Su Klux Khan has been introduced.