Evening star., 1922-12-28
.EX-MAY0R DENIED
FREEDOM IN FIGHT
NMURDER CHARGE
Baltimore Court Refuses Plea
for BaiHHoIds DR.. Me-
Koin on Writ.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associa ted Press
BALTIMORE. December 2s.-Dr. B.
NJ McKoin, former mayor of Mer
Rouge, La. today lost his fight for
immediate release on habeas corpus
proceedings He was remanded with
out prejudice" to give the Louisiana
authorities opportunity to present
their case.
Dr. McKofn was arrested here Tues
day at the request of Gov. Parker of
Louisiana. who accused him Of mur-
der In connection with the Morehouse
parish kidnapping last August.
Three judges of the Baltimore su-
preme bench. sitting in city court. de-
MED DR.. McKoin the right to bail.
Papers Sent North.
A dispatch from Attorney General
Coco Of Louisiana to States Attorney
Leach stated that DR.. McKoin formal
ly has been charged with the murder
Of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards.
The dispatch added that a deputy
sheriff was on his way to Baltimore
with the necessary papers in the
case
For the first time within the recol-
lection of local court attendants three
judges presided at the habeas corpus
proceedings here today. DR.. McKoin,
who was arrested last Tuesday at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, is being held
in connection with the deaths last
August of Watt Daniel and Thomas
Richards. alleged victims of a hooded
mob at Mer Rouge. The three judges
presiding in city court were Chief
Judge James P. Gorter and Asso-
ciates Carroll T. Bond and Charles F.
Stein.
DR.. McKoin was represented by
Robert r. Carman, former United
H. Young, noted specialist of Johns
Hopkins, with whom the one-time
mayor of Mer Rouge has been asso-
ciated since last October.
States Attorney Robert F. Leach.
jr., and Gaylord Lee Clark, one of
his assistants, appeared in opposition
to the writ.
Doctors Friends Loyal.
Many kilograms from friends of DR..
McKoin have been received Offering
moral and financial support Among
them are included some from persons
associated with the medical profess
sion, as well as one from the Central
Savings and Trust Company of Mer
Rouge, offering to deposit in any Pal-
timore bank sufficient funds to OBJ
tain the release on bail of the ac-
cused man.
Telegrams also have been received
corroborating DR.. Mckoin's statement
that he was in Monroe, La. the night
of August "a, when the kidnapping
and murders were alleged to have
taken place. One from DR.. ]. B.
Vaughan .. Monroe stated that DR..
McKoin was with him in Monroe from
pm. to 10 pm. the night of August
"a. The kidnapings were supposed
to have occurred in Mer Rouge be-
tween pm. and 10 pm. DR.. o. p.
Gray, president of the Fifth District
Medical Association, and six other
physicians also telegraphed that Dr.
McKoin was in Monroe that night.
DR.. McKoin was formerly president
of that organization.
More Arrests Expected.
BASTROP. La, December 2S.-Chief
interest in the Morehouse KIDNAPPING
case was shifted today to New Or
leans, where Gov. John M. Parker
had an engagement for a conference
with Attorney General Coco and St.
Clair Adams, special prosecutor ap-
pointed by the governor to assist the
attorney generals Office in presenting
the states case at the open hearing
to be held here January S. They in
tended to discuss policies to be
adopted at the hearing.
The masked mob which kidnaped
Daniels and Richards was composed
of about seventy-five men. according
to one OF the inves1lgators VINO has
several months. Members Of the mob.
the investigators asserted. came from
the parishes Of Morehouse, Ouachita,
West Carroll, Richland and Franklin
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