New-York tribune., 1922-12-27
McKOin Arrest RenetcS
Excitement at Mer Rouge
Evidence ample, O6icial' Say;
State to Map Out Campaign
af Mem Orleans on ThHFsdGy
sseoGsI DisfofoA 70 TAs TfeSss

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MTR ROUGE, Ia. Dec. 2e.-Ths ar
rest in Baltimore to-day Of DR.. B. II.
MeKoin. former Mayor Of her Rouge
Who auit the community. asserting that
his life was endangered because Of his
effort 10 break up lawlesSness and that
he had nsrrowly escaped assassination
While making q professional call,
created q sensation here. Friends OF
DR.. MeKeln had insisted all along that
he was a student al John Hopkins. bot
previous efforts 10 locate him there
had failed.
The filing Of . murder charge against
the former Mayor has Disconnected his
friends, who have been very insistent
that he knew nothing about the as
sAssinatlOn Of Daniels and Richards
and that he had been put In q very bad
light By the reports that he was. en-
deavoring TO escape being brought BACK
70 tell what he knows.
The authorities refuse 70 give any
details concerning the evidence they
have against DR.. MeKoin- but insist
that his arrest was fully warranted
Doubt Shooting Story
DR.. McKoin fed Mer Rouge after q
charge Of huekshot had ben fred into
the rear Of his car. He says that an
attempt was made 70 kill him by un-
known persons. The secret service
men who have examined the car and
photographed Il carefully as evidence
say n would have been impossible for
the former Mayor 20 have been in the
car when the shot was fire. and es-
caped unlnjured, a. the bullets passed
over the steering wheel.
illustrating the methods Of the lead
ers Of the Ku-Klux Klan in Morehouse
Parish, a citizen Of Mer Rouge to-day
described q peace conference and the
alleged demand Of Klsn leaders that
four residents OF this place leave
town.
After the kidnapping Of Daniels and
Richards the citizen said the situation
In the parish was tense. Civil war
seemed Inevitable with the view OF
patching up a truce both sides ap-
pointed conference committees. The
conference was held In the directors
room Of a bank at Monroe.
Klen leaders, the citizen said, ap-
peared az this conference and an
nouneed, In substance, that the only
peace terms they would consider were
that Town Marshal w. r. Campbell
Hugo Davenport, A. c. Whipple and
Thomas Miner must leave Mer Rouge
Ordered 70 Bride Tongues
Arguments followed, the citizen said
and Il finally was agreed that the -four
men named might remain, provided
they quit talking about the Khan anc
conditions in this section.
Campbell, Davenport and Whippll
refused 20 bride their tongues, the
citizen said, and continued 20 expresI
their opinions. Miner, II was said
left here and went 10 Pine Bluff. Ark
There was an air of expectancy
around Mer Rouge to-day as Depart
ment OF Justice agents renewed theii
activities. There we're many rumorI
Of impending arrests.
Sheriff Carpenter came 70 Me-
Rouge to-day from Bastrop and wal
out the greater part Of the Afternoon
with Department Of Justice agents.
Full activities, however, are not ex
peeted 20 be resumed until after thl
conference in New Orleans, Thursday
70 be attended by Governor Parker
Attorney General Coco, 81. Cloi
Adams, formerly District Attorney o
New Orleans, who has been made spe
elal prosecutor IN the ease; =. A. Far
land. Of the Department Of Justice, an
others. At this conference the evi
dence will be gone into and the pro
cram mapped out for the preliminar,
hearing IN Bastrop, January 3.
Adjutant General Toombs was her
and at Bastrop to-day, inspecting IN
camps and holding conference wit.
Colonel Guerre, commanding the 1861
state authorities tonight said the,
had given up hope Of ever finding IN
missing heads Of Daniels and Riehards
and, incidentally, explained why tn
dynamiters we're able 20 set the bias
and false the bodies before the dive
got on the Job.
The diver reached Mer Rouge from
81. Louis on December 20. but his out
ft, shipped from Boston, where he wa
last employed on a government JOB
had to be tested thoroughly. This ties
was made on December 2l, and ar
rangcments were made for the diver q
20 10 the lake on December %. Befor'
he could do 90 word came by eouriei
that the bodies had been found 6oatini
In the water.
Omcers found that the bodies haS
been dislodged from the bottom Of th'
lake By an explosion Of dynamite. Th'
diver has since searched diligently fol
the heads Of the two men.