Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-10
STORY Of RAID
BY ALLEGED XII
KLUX kLANSNEN
TOLD At TRIAL
Owners of the Place at In
&IeeWoodr CaIifp Upon
Which the Attack Was
Made Are on Stand,
TESTIMONY IS GIVEN
THROUGH INTERPRETER
Hearing Halted Twice, Once
By a Burst of Laughter
from the Spectators and
Once By Girls SobS.
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Los Angeles, Calf. Aug. 9.-The
story of the raid at Inglewood last
| April when one man was killed
was told by the owners of the raid
ed place in the trial today. Ku
kluX Klansmen who are alleged to
nave taken part in the affair. Fidsl
and Matthias Elduayen brothers.
testified they were dragged from
their house partly clothed late at
night, carried about in an automo-
bile for two hours. threatened and
eventually set free six miles from
their home.
The testimony, given through an
Interpreter, was interrupted twice
by unusual incidents, the first be-
ing the clearing of the court room
because of a burst of laughter from
the spectators over an answer bv
one of the witnesses. A twenty
minute recess followed this and the
trial had just been resumed when
a young woman spectator began to
sob violently. AS a bailiff was
leading her from the room she be-
came hysterical and screamed. II
want to see a kleaglel" Two klans-
men bearing that title, who are
among the defendants, said they
knew nothing of her. Matrons who
examined her at the county TAIL
said they found a package contain
ing a habit-forming drug in her
handbag. She told them her name
was Margaret Sullivan and was
sent to the psychopathic ward of
the county hospital for observa-
ton.
Mattias Elduayen testified that
the enforced automobile ride on
which he and his brother were
taken included visits to two police
stations and futile attempts to have
the prisoners locked up, His cross
examination consisted largely OF
negative answers to questions
whether he had sold liquor to his
captors before they bound him.
Mattias also denied he told his
captors that he had paid $500 to as
federal official for "protection" or
$1,000 to a county official and $701
to an unnamed person for the same
purpose.
Four defendants were asked by
their counsel to stand UP. after
which Mattias was asked If he
could identify them as his captors.
He said he could not. o
Fidel Elduayen said he was
aroused the night of the raid by the
entrance of many masked men"
into the room where he and his
wife were asleep; the intruders. he
said, pointed revolvers and asked
him to get up. He was taken out =
clad only in overalls he declared,
oh, Ia mn
taken on the trip previously de-
scribed by his brother.
During the trip, Fidel said.
"the men who were with us asked
me where my boiler was. told
them l had none and they could
go back and search my ranch from
end to end for one if they wanted
to. Then they threatened to Kill
me. l heard them talking about
a rope and said: That tree won't
do. The other tree is higher
After that they took us back to
Inglewood, then to the hills. where
they let us CO."
The young woman who becama
hysterical had in her possession a
letter which. the police said might
prove that her true name is Mary
Morrison and that she came from
Texas. A hotel room key found
in her handbag led the police to
believe that she is from Spring.
field, Mo, and is the same woman
who made a complaint to the police
early this morning that she had
been attacked last night by two
men who. she said. had offered to
take her to her hotel.