New Britain herald., 1921-10-04
JUDGE WARNS KHAN
 HE WILL SHOOT FEM
Texas JuriSt Won't Stand for
 Any Threats

Beaumont, Tex, Oct. Al don't want to kill anybody, but if any one Of those fellows-and I know lots of thenl-act suspicious around me I am going to kill him." Judge E. A. Mcdowell of the Sixtieth district court, declared this morning as he faced an overflowing courtroom, charged grand jury, composed main ty Of Catholics and demanded in d1ctments for white-capping and as- sault to murder against every mem Der of the local Ku Klux Klan.
 Judge McDowell said he saw before him in the courtroom many members of the local Klan whom he knew well.
 They have threatened to get me- he said, and then he uttered his warning.
 'I Defy Them.''
 They thrust at everything holy in this country" declared Judge Nc Dowell. So far as I am concerned, I defy them and I say, Lay on, Mac duff, and damned be him that first cries Hold, enough' I have few observations to make in reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Invisible Empire, presided over by an Imperial Wizard, self-constituted, elected for life, with his Cyclops, his terrors, his Kluggs, Kladds a--d Klouncils. I feel sorry for that bunch of fellows whom he fooled I wonder how he persuaded them to give him $10.
 Fellows, I have a list of all the Kleagles in Texas. I know who your Grand Goblin is and your Chief Klea- gle in Texas. I'll have him over here to appear before this grand jury Sim mons has absolute control and you have poured out your millions to him I am a Baptist and you want me to hate my neighbor who is a Catholic. 9
 Speaking of the tarring, feathering and whipping of Dr. K S. Paul ot this city and R. F. Scott of Dewey vile, as we'll as the tarring of man in Sour Lake, near her, Judge Mo Dowell laid the crimes at the door of the local Klan and said they should be indicted for whitecapping, which carries a penjtentiary sentence, and for assault. to murder He said he would give the names of the Klar members to the grand jury, but would not read them out in court.
 Speaking on the crimes of the Klan Judge McDowell said:
 NO man has a right to drive an other from his home. If he violates the law, the courts are open. But when any men get up and take the law into their own hands and go un- whipped of justice, you might just as we'll tear up your Constitutions of the United States and Texas, as the Ger man chancellor did the treaty be- tween Germany and Great Britain and call 1t a scrao sf paper"
 Trands T.tem As Cowa1ds.
 Ju,sa2 McDowell fayed the masked Klansl h as coWbN beb4nd >uaasks, and ffi, referring to the men who al Por~ Neches went unmasked in day time and warned five men to leave town, he said they too were guilty ot whitecapping, but added: But thanl Gel, they had the nerve to come with the masks God made, and did no hide behind the cover of night and cov-r of a coward"
 He asked that they be indicted or a misdemeanor charge only, so they could be let off with fines of $50t each Judge Mcdowell said that after local K1ansmen had admitted the whipping of Dr. Paul and MT. Scott in a letter to newspapers over their seal, they tried to prove an alibi by saying their seal was stolen, but he said it was not and he knows where it is He said the Klansmen meet in the Cashan Grotto club rooms and displayed several secret documents ot the Klan which he said he would turn over to the grand jury.