New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
klansnaenOffer.
$1,000 Reward
I'm Rau Attack
Clarke Doubts the Story of
Whipping, but Insists if
Amy Member Is Guilty
He Will Be Punish c 4
Lasled by knotted Rope
Fraternity Man Declines to
Accuse ku-klux, but
Leaves tho Organization

s @. A. (Henry) Rau. Columbia fra
ternity man, who was waylaid near
Montvalc, n. j., last Saturday night
and whipped and beaten into uncon-
seriousness, declared yesterday the in
eident ended his affiliation with the
Ku-klux Klan. While declining to
place responsibility for the attack last
Saturday upon any persons connected
with the secret organization, Rau
thought il significant that the attack
should have occurred within two
miles of the headquarters OF tho
strongest group of klansmen in New
Jersey"
In definite terms Eau, who was able
TO leave his room in tho buckingham
Hotel for stroll during the afternoon,
told representative OF The Tribune
tha. he had been completely disilu-
stoned regarding the hcralded ideals
OF the Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan
since he became member nine months
ago, and that he and the friends he had
persuaded to join the organization were
"out of it."
Clarke Offers Reward
Al shout the same time yesterday
Edward Young Clarke, imperial klaliff
fsuprene -president) of the Khan,
issued a statement for tho press, In
which he offered, on the part Of the
organization, s reward of $1,000 ito
the party or parties furnishing evil
dence to convict any party or parties
guilty of making an attack upon Cap
tain G. A. Rau. who WAS up to last
Thursday night member of the Ku-
klux Klan. and who at that time vol
UNFAIRLY withdrew from the organize
ton and against whom In the records
Of the organization there is absolutely
nothing detrimental Of record"
. The statement goes on to say that
If Rau was attacked after he left the
meeting of the Klan members in
Brooklyn Thursday night cit was an
outrage and crime, it matters not by
whom committed, and the Knights of
the Ku-klux Klan would as Gladly pay
$1,000 reward for evidence to convict
any member of this organization who
might have participated in the sup
posed affair as it would pay the re-
ward to convict any one in no way
connected with the organizations"
'. The statement by Clarke expresses
doubt as to whether Rau really was
attacked. Rau's comment last night
was that any one doubling his story
could learn the truth by taking Il look
at him or investigating at Police Head
quarters.
Hands in Bandages
Rau's condition following the Satur-
day night affair was seen to be worse
Yesterday than the first reports of the
mt
large swelling ON his head, where. he
said, one of his three masked asssil-
ants had struck him when he resisted
them; both of his hands were in
bandages as result Of the fight he
had put up, and as he told of the oc-
currence in his room at the hotel he
moved about carefully to guard against
the excruciating pain the lashes i'm
posed on his bare back had caused him.
The attack on Rau, who is member
Of the Delta Phi fraternity and makes
his home at the fraternity clubhouse,
602 West 116th Street, is believed by
him and many fraternity friends who
called on him at the hotel yesterday to
have been the direct result Of remarks
made by Rau against Edward Young
Clarke, imperial kleagle Of the Ku-Klux
Klan, and other of the Klan's officials
ut meeting of about 200 members Of
the organization in Brooklyn last
Thursday evening.
According to Rau, he stood almost
alone in his attitude toward Clarke
and his supporters at the Brooklyn
meeting. He was reported by his
fraternity brothers as missing the next
day and his whereabouts were not
known to them until after the occur
renee on the lonely New Jersey road
The young man said that the place
where he was assailed was within two
miles of the town Of Pearl River, the