New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
I-awyerFlogged,
Then Driven
From Louisiana
Chicago Counsel for Two AL.
legged l. W. W. Members
kidnapped by Two Men;
GOES to Dallas Hospital
Another Visitor Vanisl1es
Civil Liberties Union De.
mands Probe of A.
tack on Representative

SHREVEPORT. La, Jan. Harold
Nulks. Of Chicago. lawyer for two al
legged I. W. W. members recently con-
victcd on vagrancy charges, was Kid
mapped last night by two unmaskcd
men, fogged and placed aboard west
bound Missouri, Kansas & Texas train
at Greenwood. He was not injured
seriously
Mulks is representative of the
American Civil Liberties League OF
New York. He was in a hotel lobby
conversing with the clerk when two
men accosted him and told him to come
along. He resisted, struggled with the
men and shouted "Murder." The two
men forcbly showed him out of the
hall and into an automobile which shed
toward the Texas state line, twenty
miles west.
Shortly after his arrival. Mulks had
complained to authorities he had been
Accosted by three "rufFians." and was
assured he would be afforded every
protection.
Ask to Remain in Jail
Claude Irwin and W. NJ. Hickey. the
two men Mulks came here to defend,
appealed to the district court o-day to
keep them in Jail for their personal
safety
". NJ. Carney, a lawyer. said to be
from Oklahoma City, came here to in
vestigate Hickey's case. but soon after
Police, however, expressed belief Car
ney left Shreveport of his own volition.
as no complaints had been received
from him
DALLAS. Tex, Jan. l4.-Harold r.
Mulks arrived here to-day from G1cen-
vile. Ten, and went immediately to a
hospital for treatment for injuries he
received when he was foggcd last tight
by band of men at Shreveport
Blood-stained garments and severe
ly lacerated scalp and back were ex-
hibited by Mulks, who said he was
seized by two men as he stood in the
lobby of one of the largest hotels of
Shreveport was forced into a waiting
sutom Jhie and carried twenty miles
from the city where the fogging was
administered by several unmasked men.
none of whom was known to him. Mulks
estimated that he was struck forty
times with heavy leather strap. in
and otherwise mistreated. He then was
placed on train at small railway
station with the warning that he stay
away from Shreveport. The train car
ried him to Grcenvile, Texas. whence
he came to Dallas
He announced his intention of re-
turning to Chicago for time as soon
AS he recuperates from his injuries.
these were said by medical attendants
rot to be of a serious nature
GREENV1LLE, Tex. Jan. 14-Harold
r. Mulks arrived at Grccnville to day
on a Missouri. Kansas e. Texas pas
songcr train on which he was placed
last night by band of men who had
reverely fogged him after kdnapiny
HIM from his hotel at Shreveport
The men. Mulks said, directed the
conductor not to let him off the train
this side of Dallas" He plainly
showed marks of the foggng
Told to Keep Going
Wallace Fowler. a Greenvillc police
man, talked to Mulks ut the station
here He said Mulks told him he had
been warned to leave Shreveport scv-
cral days ago, but that he had not
needed the suggestion"
Il was told not to stop this side Of
naiias' but am certain | will not stop
this side OF Chicago" Mulks was
quoted by Fowler as having said He
LETT later for Dallas.
Immediate investigation Of the kid
naping OF Harold Mulks was dcmandod
IN kilograms sent by the American
Civil Liberties League yesterday to
governor Parker Of Louisiana and Com
missioner of Public Safety Stringfel-