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JAIL YAWNS FOR
xxx. SLAYERS
Additional Arrests For Louisiana
Murders Are Forecast.
TWENTY OF MOB KNOWN
Autopsy Shows Men Were Beaten ano
Bones Broken Before Bodies were
Thrown Into Lake.

Bastrop, La, Dec. 26.-The proba'
bility that the next chapter IN the
Morehouse kidnapping Investigations
would be written in Mer RouSht loom
ed strongly here.
Attorney General Coco's announce
ment that the state expected 10 jan
ut least six OF seven more on charges
of murder in connection with the
death of Watt Daniels and Thomas
richards, is expected TO be fulfilled
Ia the Mer Rouge community.
Il is believed that many OF the mel
the state suspects as ring leaders OF
the August white-robed and masked
mob will be served with warrants be
fore January 3, the. date set for the
omen hearing here. Developments al
the hearing may bring about the ar
rest OF others. Federal agents decinr-
Ell they have the names OF twenty
members Of the mob.
THE state believes T. j. burnett
guilty Of the murder charge upon
which he was Jailed Saturday." the
"We further believe we have the
evidence upon which to convict those
we arrest" he added.
An order was issued denying Visl'
tors permission to communicate with
Burnett in the local Jail, except IL
the presence of an officer of the mill
tary detail. Burnett's friends, are raj
lying to his support.
The state forces penetrating Into
the mystery and the populace of More
house relaxed under the inii.ence OF
the Christmas spirit.
The troops stationed here and a:
Mer Rouge rested on their arms as
the town folk brought them gooo
things to eat and helped them to be
merry.
The officials composing the legal ma
chinery Of the state scattered to
spend the holiday with their families
but held telephone conversations with
one another.
A conference of those conducting
the inquiry was announced for Thurs
day at New Orleans. At that time
plans for the hearing will be outlined
and the finding of the coroner's jury
which7held the inquest over the bodies
Of Daniels and Richards will be dis
cussed. The report of the patholo-
gists will be carefully weighed. 1t Is
regarded by the state as going fa1
toward clearing up the manner In
which the two men met death.
The bodies lying at the bottom OF
the lake four months before being
shot to the surface by unidentified
midnight dynamiters were said to have
been well preserved. The heads and
some limbs were missing The path
ologists claim to be able to state
whether these parts were hacked Off
by the executioners or blown away
by the blast, or eaten off by fish, it
Is known.
The physicians disclosed that evil
dence Indicated the men were beaten
and their bones broken before they
died.
Department of justice men are seek
ing to locate Dr.. B. M. McKoin, for
mer mayor Of Mer Rouge, wanted for
Interrogation. The mayor quit Mer
Rouge following an attempt made to
assassinate him. He went to Monroe
and then to New Orleans. later going
to Johns Hopkins University at Balti-
more for postgraduate course. Eff
forts to locate him there have failed
and his Whereabouts are unknown to
officials.
The hearing January 5, as the term
indicates, will be. open to the public,
and for the purpose of developing the
facts relating to the death Of the two
men.
Affidavlts will be made against all
persons pointed to by the evidence as
probably implicated.