The Mankato free press., 1921-09-30
TALE OF kLAN ACTS
Austin Lads Resort to
Drastic Measure
WERE BEFORE JUSTICE
Entire Story of What Happened
In That City BY "Gang'"
Was Revealed = =

Austin, September 26.-Back Of the
Ku Klux doings sits smiling miss
and jealous youth named Victor
Peterson, eighteen, according to the
story that was told in Justice Det-
wiler's court by Ralph Lane, past
seventeen, George Edwards, eighteen,
Harold Regner, seventeen, and Ray
mond Hickok, eighteen.
According to the story Of the youths
Victor invited the gang up to his house
where the older folks were TO have a
party and he promised them the eats.
When they arrived Vic led them
around to the back door and then went
into the kitchen. He came out with
a botue or whipped cream and drank
1t himself while Lne gang stood around
waiting for taste.
Having finished the cream he hand
ed the empty bottle to Regner. The
eats didn't CONT very fast but the boys
were hopeful and waited around. FL
nally Vic came out and asked the boys
to look through the window and see
Paul Lollar flirting with the little
beauty. He ought to be mobbed,'
the boys say Vic said as he looked in
the window. Regner is short and. he
SouiuL sOOh III tue WluuOW SO ue
missed the Irritation scene.
Agreed toIMob LoIlar.
Vic then got his four boys to agree
to mob Lollar "and if ,you need any
help I'll come" he added. Vic then
got a pair OF clippers and turned them
over to Regner.
Lollar was an invited guest at the
party and so was Jack Uzlik and they
were dressed in their party clothes.
Uzlik was called out and he told the
court that the boys wanted him to
get ,Lollar out SO they could clip his
hair. Uzlik refused to be a party to
it so Vic's brother, Delmar, was sent
to do the bidding to the Ku klux par
ty. Lollar wanted to accept the inyi-
tation to 60 outside but Uzlik told him
ne better not. On being again told the
boys were outside Lollar said he was
going out and Uzlik followed.
Both Lollar's and UZlik's stories of
what occurred after agree with the
story OF the four prisoners for all the
boys were apparently STRAIGHTFORWARD
Edwards and Regner took Lollar to
the st. Augustine's school when Reg
ner clipped his hair. Lane, who had
been helping Hfckok to hold Uzlik, ad :
min1stered shaving cream to Lollar's
face but no one told who ruined the
peppermint teeth cleanser and talcum
powder into Lollar's clothes, but all
said it was done. While this was in
progress Vic come up saying RE
member I've got nothing to do with
this"
Had Their Eats.
Uzlik and Lollar returned, to the
party and had "eats" but the other
four didn't report getting anything for
their work.
ICllar said his suit was four to six
weeks old and cost $25.
Justice Detwiler said he never liked
to send boy to jail. He felt, he said,
that the boys should be. adequately
punished SO they would remember to
obey the law in the future. None OF
the boys had been before him before.
He then fined them SIS each and costs
making. $3.50 and added to this each
of the boys will pay Lollar SIS which
he must earn. They were given sixty
days to do this in If at the end OF
that time, they fail the fine will be
increased to $40 and If they don't set
tie they go to the county jail for ten