Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-26

Bastrop, La, Dec. 25.-The prob
ability that the next chapter in the
Morehouse kidnapping Investigations
would be written soon in Mer Rouge
loomed strongly here Monday night.
Attorney General Cocos announce
ment in Markville, La, where he is
spending Christmas, that the state ex-
pected to arrest at least six or seven
more persons on charges of murder
in connection with the death of Watt
Daniels and Thomas Richards, is ex-
pected to be fulfilled in the Mer Rouge
community.
It is believed that many of the men,
the state suspects as ring leaders of
the August white robed and masked
men. will be served with warrants be-
fore January ). the date set for the
open hearing here. Developments at
the hearing may bring about the ar
rest Of others. Federal agents have
declared they have the names of 20
members of the mob.
The state believes T. J. Burnett
guilty of the murder charge upon
which he was arrested Saturday" the
attorney general declared Monday in
speaking of the lone suspect held in
the Jail at Bastrop. I'VE further be-
lieve we have the evidence upon which
to convict those we arrest he added.
Visitors Denied
An order was issued Monday deny
ing visitors permission to communi-
cate with Burnett except in the pres
ence of an officer of the military de-
tail. Burnett's many friends are raj
lying to his support.
The state forces penetrating into
the mystery and the popuiace of More
house relaxed Monday under the in
fuence of the Christmas spirit.
The troops stationed here and at
Mer Rouge rested on their arms as
the town folks brought them good
things to eat and helped them to be
merry.
Governor Parker was at his desk at
Baton Rouge summarizing the develop
ments Of the past week which began
with the troop movement that sue
ceeded in locating the bodies of two
men believed by the state to have been
killed by the hooded mob. The gov
ernor dispensed with the traditional
Christmas dinner with his aged mother
and relatives at New Orleans to re-
main at his post.
A conference of those conducting the |
inquiry was announced Monday for |
Thursday at New Orleans. At that |
time plans for the hearing will be out /
lined and the findings of the coroners |
jury which held the inquest over the
bodies Of Daniels and Richards will be
discussed. The report of the pathol-
regarded by the state as going far to-
wards clearing up the manner in which
the two men met death.
Bodies Dynamited
The bodies, lying in cool water at
the bottom of the lake four months
before being shot to the surface by un-
identified midnight dynamiters. were
said to have been well preserved. The
heads and limbs were missing. The
are not in a position TO
state whether these parts were hacked
off by the executioners.
The physicians disclosed that evil
dence indicated the men We're beaten
and their bones broken before they
died.
Department of justice men are seek
ing to locate Dr. B. NJ. Mckoin. former
mayor of Mer Rouge, wanted for inter
The mayor quit Mer Rouge
following an attempt to assassinate
nm. lie went TO Monroe ana then 10
New Orleans and upon departing from
here. declared he was en- route for
Iohns Hopkins university at Baltimore
'or a postgraduate course.
Efforts to locate him there have
failed and his whereabouts are un-
known to officials. 1t was the attempt
IN his life that is believed to have
eliminated in the event of August
Testimony of a sensational nature
many substantial citizens !
of Mississippi and Arkansas, as well {
IS Louisiana is expected TO be de
Teloped by the state at the open hear {
ng.
The hearing. as the term indicates. t
will be open TO the public and for the f
purpose of developing the facts in the 8
murder of these two men,
Affidavits will be made against all