The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-17
HEATH DENIES THAT
 HE IS THE AUTHOR
 0F K. K. K. LETTER
Jasper Senator DenounceS KIan--Says He Expects to Live and Die
 in Jasper

M L. Leith, of Jasper. state sen ator from Walker county, last night sent to The Age Herald letter in which he denies authorship of a recent communication he re- ceived warning him against anti Ku Klux activities. MT. Leith also encloses an affidavit made by him. self in which the denial Is empha- sized and stating that he knew noth- ing about the letter until he received it through the mail.
 In his letter to The Age Herald MT. Leith denounees tactics of the Klan, says he has tried in vain to find out who are Walker county members of the Klan and asserts hls belief that if the Klan as whole did not write .he letter to him that a part of the KJan did do it. His letter reads:
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 I notice in your paper of the 6th of September, 1922, a purported com nun: cation from the Ku Klux Kan at Jasper, Alabama. In which saio invisible Kian denies that it or any of it's members had any thing to do or any connection with a certain threatening letter which l received through the United States mail on Monday, the 1lth. inst, postmarked Jasper, Alabama, September II, o:So a. m. 1922. in which it threatens my self and about fourteen other clt- izens and orders uT to shut up aoouC the Ku Klux Klan, and that this IS the last and final warning and that the word Is Shut Up" copy or said letter appeared in your papeu of the 18th day of September, lSLA' and the names which they fnciude Tn said letter Were R. A Cooner, I. L' Sowell, who is our circuit judge' 9. M Pennington, who Is our circuie solicitor; l. l.. Clark, Who IS III .iA0 coal business: Cecil Lacy, who IS an accountant; c. B. Brotherton, who IS an abstract man. John Worthlnglon who l. an express agent; Phillip Richardson, who Is a job printers Dan Baker. who is a bridge man; C. [. Robins. who is a telegraph oper- ator: c. c. Smith, who is county tax inspector; Mont Appling. who IS merchant: T. l.. Long, who most evervbody in the state knows business man; Walter VIII Bank- head. a lawyer, the son of John n; Bankhead; Jack Cranford, mayor or Jasper. a merchant and banker.
 Altar the klan saw the mistake II had made they then had to deny the same and the theory they Tell on was to try to lay it off on myseit as being an arch enemy to them. Ano if Ia charged by them that had Writ- ten the letter, that appeared Tn your paper; they try to indicate that l an, a mean, low down man. Ana many VI the people In the state know me l am now serving my second term as stato senator from the Twelfth sena- torial district and in 1918 when l was elected I ran against a man who no- body will say is not man Of hign standing and good citizen. and Tn our precinct where we both reside l received 279 votes, and my opponent. 245, and In the county l received 1908 votes, my opponent, 74s. Inls was in the primary election, both or us democrats.
 Woman Beaten Up
 only mention this to show the public to what extent this Ku kiux Klan will go to. Invisible and GOV cred up, and the threatening let ter I received, ordering me and oth- CTS to shut up our mouths while on last Friday night the 9th inst' it is generally reported that tnc Ku Klux Klan had taken out an old woman here and 1t is said they peat her nearly to death, something like one hundred men, and as I was in formed, some boys were returning from the swimming pool home and they covered them with pistols and took them out of the car and beat them unmercifully, the boys being about 1s years of age, and one of them sick and he had been operated on, and they bursted open the place where the operation had been per formed and then fixed the car so that they could not run 1t and left them and made them walk in that condition, and some of us, including myself. condemned such actions, gen eraliy reputed that the Ku Klux Klan did it and with all their communica-