Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-24
NIGHT RIDERS
ACCUSED OF
CRIME
Two Hundred Los Angeles
County Men May Be
Arrested
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Officer Dead and Others
May Die From Shooting
At Inglewood
ATTEMPTED MURDER
United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April 24.-Possibil.
ity that nearly 200 residents of Los
Angeles county may be charged with at
tempted murder loomed significantly
today as the district attorneys office
pushed investigation Of the night rid
ing raid and fatal gun battle Sunday
at Inglewood.
81 expect to have the full name of
practically every masked man who par
ticipated in this affair.", Deputy Dis
trict Attorney w. G. Doran said. If the
participants are apprehended, every
man can be charged with assault with
intent to commit murder, it was as
serted. Conviction carries sentence
Of from one to fifteen years.
Coroner Frank Nancy announced that
an inquest over the body of Constable
Medford B. Mosher Of Inglewood, who
was killed by Night Marshall Frank
Woerner during the raid, will be held
at $3.50 a. IN. tomorrow.
Nance was lining up his witnesses
this afternoon for the coming inquest.
He asserted positively that. he would
the Ku Klux Klan, and r.. D. Knicker-
booker, reporter on morning newspa-
per- & aa ": sr T as. G3
Warrant 8 issued from District At
torney Thomas Lee Woolwine's office
today for the arrest of a coterie Of al
legged night riders believed to have par
ticipated in q sensational raid and gun
battle. at Inglewoed. yesterday. all
As a. result, Constable M. B. Mosher
is Dead, Leonard Rugg will probably
die and Walter Mosher, son Of the con.
stable, is in the hospital with severe
injuries. r.f 1870
Rugg is an executive of the. Ma
tional Brass Works, of Los Angeles. The
fatal rioting started when 200 masked
and white robedr men surrounded tie
home Of Fidel % Elduyan, Spaniard,
whom the raiders accused Of operating
a whiskey still
The mob is alleged to have been di-
verted from its announced mission and
to have roughly handled Mrs. Angela
Elduyan and forced her two pretty
daughters, Maria and Bernardo, to dis
robe in front of the Elduyan home.
Six minor children, one Of whom was
said to have been near death from
pneumonia were roughly ordered out of
bed, and thrust from the house without
being permitted to dress it is reported,
and the entire neighborhood was ter
rorized. A riot call was sent for Frank
Woerner, night marshal. He common
deered motorcycle and sped to the
southeast portion Of the town, from
which the call had come.
-. Officer Shoots First
HTwo hundred wards from a cross.
roads near the Elduyan home saw a
band of masked men, Woerner said.
''Stop and throw up your hands, one
Of them called. N"I IN an officer, throw
up your. hands yourself' I shouted. I
turned my flashlight on my badge.
Someone went for a gun. went for
mine and got it out quicker. I shot
one man down. Two more opened fire
ON me, and advanced. shot them both.
Then the whole mob made rush for
me. !. swung my motorcycle around
and escaped. Back in town I summoned
the sheriffs office at Los Angeles and
lined up small posse and returned.
"The mob had disappeared by that
time.' -
Young Mosher, one of the injured
men, made statement to the district
attorney confirming Woerner's g story
and generating him from blame for
the fatal gun battle, according to the
authorities.
"Woerner wouldn't have fired if he
had not thought the men in our band
were going to Shoot Mosher is quoted
as saying:
"We were picked men, launching a
campaign to clean out Inglewood 8 un-
desirables. 1 will not tell any names,
nor the organization to which we be-
long"
Indignities Denied
He denied that either Mrs. Elduyan
Continued on Page Two)