The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
Thousands Present at Funeral Services of Two Men Killed
 in Louisiana Disorders No
 Outbreak Is Reported and No Bad Feeling Is Shown
QUIET PREVAILS UPON EVE OF THE HOLIDAYS
Governor Refuses to Leave
 Mer Rouge Unprotected After Startling Developments of Past Week. One of Victims Was Veteran of World War
By Associated Press

BASTROP, La., Dec. 24.-More- house parish was spending a@quiet Christmas Eve tonight in the midst of the startling investigations insti- tuted by the state last week to clear up the mystery of the Kidnapping case of last August when five promi- nent citizens of Mer Rouge were ab. ducted by masked and white-robed men.
 Bodies of two of the alleged vic tins of the Hob, blown up from the bottom of Lake La Fourche Thurs day, identified as Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, were buried in the Daniels family ground seven miles from Mer Rouge this afternoon, side by side, in the presence of vast throng of relatives, friends and curiosity seekers.
 More than 200 automobiles and other vehicles were counted parked along the roads leading to the ceme-
 tery. The crowds began to assemble
 at the cemetry hours before .ne funeral was scheduled
 Was World War veteran
 The Episcopal service was read and squad of national guard troops
 escorted the bodies to the graves,
 sounded taps and fired salute as
 the bodies were lowered into their
 resting place of earth after having 1 wallowed in the slush at the bottom | of a lake for four months, wire | bound and believed to have been tied
 to heavy iron weight.
 | Daniels was World war veteran, 1 having seen service in the tank corps. | He was single. Richards was mar ried and the father of two young 1 children. Both were members of | families that were pioneers in More 1 house.
 With the funeral services ended, | the crowds started quietly for home. | There was no outward expression of l the feeling that has been reported as surging within the kin of the i dead.
 Fearing that pent-up emotions i might be loosed during the dead
 watch last night and following the | funeral today, Governor Parker late l yesterday rescinded the order issued l previously in the day for the Monroe | national guard troops stationed at 1 Mer Rouge to proceed to join two 1 national guard troops here guarding l the court house and jail square. The governor feared to leave Mer
 Rouge unprotected, 1t was announced.
 Governor sifts Mystery Governor Parker's program in sift- /, ing the Kidnapping mystery was st l in motion last Tuesday when. after 1 conference with state and militia ! officials, he ordered Company c, l Monroe national guard infantry. to 1 entrain under sealed orders. The l military men made their appearance at Mer Rouge early Wednesday and went into camp in the heart of the | little town.
 The same afternoon a detachment | was thrown about two lakes in Warehouse parish for guard duty. l Professional divers. under the direc- l tion of department of justice men. . began to rake the bottoms of the | lakes for the bodies of the missing | men. It was the theory the men
 had been weighted down with wagon l wheels. missing since from the lake ] bank. and thrown into the lake. i On a chart prepared by Burns ! agents was drawn ring around 1 the ferry landing on LaFourche lake as the most probable resting around of the dead. This location. which has depth of 50 feet. was penetrated l first, but without success.
 The next day the states princi- 1 pal efforts were directed to Lake i Ia l Men and boys of the surrounding 1 communities joined the searchers.
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