The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
FIRST ARREST IS
 MADE IN PROBE IF. LOUISIANA | ASE..
Other Warrants Will Be Issued Soon, Attorney General In-, dicates-0pen Hear
 ing Is Ordered
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ducted an autopsy to determine how the men came to their death. Men Were F1osged
 They declared the examination re- vealed that the men had been flogged and some bones broken before they died. They refused tG reply to the question whether the men were killed before bound with wire. weighted down. and thrown into the lake, or whether they were thrown into the lake alive and died of strangulation.
 That the autopsy was considered of most vital importance In the prose- cution of those who will be charged with the murder, was indicated by the attorney general who declared that every scar and mark counts" Whether the coroner's jury handed down the name of the man ordered arrested this afternoon was not learned.
 Department of justice investiga- tors have frequently declared they had a list of the names of those connected with the Kidnapping trag edy. Governor Parker has indicated that hooded men of Mississippi and Arkansas, as we'll as Louisiana, were implicated
 The bodies were turned over to a committee composed of relatives and friends late today. The funerals were scheduled for tomorrow. The dead mon were members of families who were pioneers in this parish and their acquaintanceship Is numbered by the hundreds.
 Fear Another Outbreak Many believe the surrender of the fn hA If of the troops may kindle the out break between the hostile camps created at Mer Rouge since the Au- gust kidnaping.
 Department of justice agents and state officials have during the past four months, under the personal di- rection of Governor Parker, prepared a chain of circumstantial evidence outlining events preceding tho kid naping as well as the movements of the mob on the fatal night which will be the basis of the prosecution. 1t has been reported.
 Trouble started in Warehouse last summer, when an alleged attempt was made to assassinate pr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge.
 pr. McKoin, in discussing the inci- dent, declared he was summoned by telephone one night to go to. some place on, a professional call. While en route to the call. he said two bull lets passed through his automobile. Later he received anonymous threats against his life. so he de- parted from Mer Rouge.
 Conducting Campaign
 It had been known that the mayor was conducting campaign against lawlessness. ,h
 Daniels and Richards were be- lleved by some to have been impli- cated in the attempted assassination. few days after that event Daniels and Richards told their friends that a crowd of men in white robes and masks, took them out separately, questioned, warned. threatened and released them.
 The two men later declared they recognized the voices of some of them whom they named.
 They declared they could estab- fish an alibi for the nNyht of the at- tack on the mayor. as they were playing poker with nine men at the time.
 Richards is said to have called later on one of his questioners and in- formed him that If any further laccu- sations were made against him he would hold that man personally re- sponsible.
 Hooded Hen Meet
 The next night the hooded men held meeting in grove near the town and Daniels later told his friends he secreted himself near the place and heard what transpired and recognized many of those present.
 While listening to the secret con- clave Daniels said he accidentally stepped on stick and made q noise. A searching party located him and while under cover of their guns he told the men he had concealed him self to obtain evidence to expose the men. Daniels said he was released