The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-27
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FREEDR, NIXON
IN KLAN PROBE
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or for the purpose of obtaining
possible information from him.
DIR. Mckoin today repeated prev
ious denials of implication in the
murders or any connection with the
Kidnapping.
Had the Louisiana authorities
gene about the matter in a differ.
ent way, he said, Il would have
gone to Mer Rouge and assisted
them in any way that l could. Now
| will go there only by force"
DR.. Mckoin denied he was a
member of the Ku Klux Khan.
Probe is Renewed.
Bastrop. La, Dec. 27.-Depart-
ment of justice agents and the
state government renewed .activi-
ties today in the investigation Of
the Morehouse kidnapping case and
widened their efforts to run down
the persons responsible for the
dynamiting of nearby lake which
gave up the bodies of two men
identified as Watt Daniels. and
Thomas Richards, abducted by a
masked mob last August. 1t was
declared that additional arrests
were imminent.
Secret service men are reported
10 have located the place where the
dynamite was sold and some of the
men suspected of being implicated
in the dynamiting are untier sur
vcillance. The Investigators init
mated that arrests may occur soon.
The arrest In Baltimore yester4
day of DIR. B. NJ. McKoin, forrnef
mayor of Mer Rouge, at the request
OF Governor John NJ. Parker, caus-
ed considerable excitement. Little
groups of citizens gathered in pub
lie places and on the streets to
discuss the case and the probable
next move of the authorities.
Identification Uncertain.
A statement signed by ]. A. Syl-
vester of Bastrop has been issued
to the press in which doubt is ex-
pressed as to the identity of the
bodies found in Lake LaFourche
and claimed by relatives as those
Of Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich
ards, alleged victims of hooded
moi. ls
Although it is rumored that the
bodies OF Daniels and Richards
have been found. there is. however,
% positive evidence that this is
ffue." the statement said, and
added:
Two objects are reported to-
have been floating, near the banks
Of Lake LaFourche and it was pre-
sumed. that these bodies were those
Of the missing men,"
Khan Offers Help.
In regard to efforts to clear up
he affair, the statement said:
Captain c. J. Skipworth has ten
Tered TO the attorney general the
assistance and cooperation OF 500
hlansmen to be used in any capac-
ty deemed necessary and assured
nm that 1t was the wish of the en- !
.fe citizenship of the Morehouse
Man. that no stone be left un-
orned in ferreting out and bring
hg to justice the guilty parties !
'onnected in the case OF the alleged
lidnaping of Daniels and Rich
lrds.
everything possible is being done
y the Khan that would be OF as
stance to the state and other au-
horities.
Morehouse parish and the town
! bastrop. which are in the lime
lgnt because Of the kidnapping and
'ilng OF Daniels and Richards.
ave an interesting story. Accord
" TO a booklet published a few i
ears ago by a resident Of Mer
huge. the town and parish got :
Yer names from Kentuckfant
=" a Spanish nobleman.
Has Interesting History. I,
IA 1895. when Spain owned what !,
now the state Of Louisiana, a 4,
pahiard- Baron De Bast-op. was
a'd to have obtained from the
panish government "a contract ,
~ that when he had induced
y families to settle in the coun-
: iNns north and east of the /
aachita river he would acquire /
y ownership OF 12 leagues of /
lnd' or about LOCO. 900 acres, for !