Evening star., 1922-12-29
EX-MAYOR FEARS
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tiles to understand that the sheriff,
was on his way with the proper
papers for eXtradition. They knew tina,
this was false. but the Maryland on
cials could not know IT. The repre-.
sentation had a material bearing.
am confident. on the decision of the
court remanding DIR. McKoin to the
custody of the police"
More Arrests Predicted.
By the Associated Press
MONROE. La. December o9-Sher.
in Fred Carpenter of Morehouse Par.
ish today declared there will be ar.
rests in the Morehouse kidnapping in.
vestigation upon the return of the
federal Investigators who were ir
New Orleans yesterday attending
| a conference with state officials.
Il have no official word Of any &C.
, ton of any kind said the sheriff
but 1 know that there are to be ar
| rests on the return TO Morehouse OF
federal Investigators. l have no war.
! rants as yet. but these are to be
| placed in my hands within the mex,
few days / have no reliable infor-
nation relative to the alleged confss.
sons of two persons involving forty.
| five citizens
Sheriff Carpenter said that while
| forty-fire citizens might be invol ..ed
i In the plot. he did not believe tina,
many were actual participants IN the
KIDNAPPING and deaths of Watt Dan
| lels and Thomas Richards
have talked with the surviving
! members of the Mer Rouge party Wha
were kidnapped he said. and all sd id
there we're no more than eighteen 0,
4, twenty in the masked band"
Friends of DIR. B. N. McKoin con-
( fn hat
to the former Mer Rouge mayor. l,
was stated plans are under way :o
raise 100000 to aid him.
Friends Of the physician expressed
the opinion that Gov. Ritchic Of Mary.
land will not honor requ:sltion pa
pers.
Meanwhile efforts are going for.
/ ward in five or six parishes a. thi.
end OF the state TO raise a great fund
| to defend not only McKoin, bu. DOS
| sibly other defendants.
BATON ROUGE. La. December 2e.-
Special Deputy Sheriff Calhoun OF
Morehousc parish VIII leave here this
afternoon for Baltimore with the re.
qlisition papers for the return Of DR.
| b. NJ. Mckoin, charged with murde,
: il connection with the Morchouse kid
| napings.
NEW ORLEANS, La. December %
Gov. John NJ. Parker, Attorney Gen.
and investigators Of the federal De.
partment Of Justice remained non.
committal today as to details of theil
series Of conferences in the attorney
generals office yesterday and last
night concerning the Morehouse kid.
naping case.
The governor was in the conference
several hours during the morning. He
| went to Baton Rouge in the after.
| noon. but late last night he and Mr.
Coco held an extended telephone con.
, versation. the nature of which wa.
not made public.
The sole intimation of what took
place behind the closed doors wa:
that it was an intensive study of the
great mass of documentary evidence
! turned over to the attorney general.
office This record. IT was asserted
already exceeds in volumne that as
sembled in any criminal case in the
/ history of the United States. Attorne,
| General Coco announced today tina
1.-The state will be prepared with ar
! amazing collection of evidence wheI
] the open hearing begins in Bastrop
/ January s."