Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-08
PACIFIC KHAN
TRIAL DRACS
Examination Of Talesmen In
Trial OF 81 Persons Who
Were In X. K. K. RAID

LOS ANGELES, Cal., August g.
Examination of talesman in the trial
of tbirty-sevcn persons who are al
legged to have participated in Ku
Klux Klan raid at IngIewood, a SUI
'berb last April, in which one man
was killed, proceeded slowly today,
both defense and prosecution attor-
neys propounding numerous ques-
tions on prejudice for or again.
the kan. The lawyers also demand
ed from each statement as to his or
her opinion on methods of law en-
forcement.
A night raid by masked men at
Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles,
on April %, 1922, resulting in the
Staying of one raider and the wound
ing of two others, was followed by
an investigation in which the first def
mite charges were made chat the
Ku Klux Klan Of the present day is
engaged in deeds of violence. Forty
three persons were inducted by the
Los Angeles county grand jury for
false Imprisonment, kidnapping and as-
sault with intent to commit murder
in connection with the raid.
Thirty-seven of the accused were
mentioned by name and six, uniden-
tilted at the time, as John Does. ;"
Those named included William S.
Coburn, grand goblin of the Pacific
DOMAIN of the Ku Klux KIan; G. w.
Price, king kleagle of the khan foc
the state of California, and Nathan
A. Baker, kleagle, or organizer, for
Los Angeles county.
The victims of the Inglewood raid
were Fidel and Matthias Elduayen,
brothers, proprietors of winery near
lnglewood, operating under federal
license. A crowd of men estimated
as numbering from so to $50 enter
ed the Elduayen place, bound the
brothers and carried them to the In
glewood city Jail and asked to have
them locked up as ''bootleggers." The
Jaller refused. The Elduayens were
then carried to Redondo Beach, ten
miles away, and similar attempt was
made at the lookup there, with the
same result.
While the raiders were surrounding
the Elduayen place, Frank T. Woer-
ner, deputy city marshal of Ingle-
wood, rode up in a motorcycle and
was ordered to halt by one of the
group of masked men who were
guarding the highway. The deputy
displayed his badge, whereupon. he
testified later, several revolvers were
leVeIled at him. He drew his own
weapon and fired into the crowd,
three men falling. Woerner contin-
ued firing until his ammunition was
exhausted, then returned to the In
glewood police station for more.
When he got back to the scene Of
the raid the crowd had dispersed.
The three men shot by Woerner
were carried into the town where they
were found to be NJ. B. Mosher, Ir-
glewood constable; Walter E. Mosher,
his son, and Leonard Ruegg, deputy
constable. The elder Mosher died
about an hour after he was shot.
Meanwhile the Elduayens had been
set free several miles from their
home.
An inquest was held three days
after the raid, in an Inglewood under
taking establishment. Blake E. Sham
beau, traffic officer, testified that
the raid had been organized the
night of April 81, in the same room
where the inquest was being held. and
that at the same meeting candidates
for admission to the Ku Klux Klan
had been identified by Baker. He and
other witnesses said Baker led the
raiders intheattack upon the Eldua-
yens. Coburn testified he was in Ia-
glewood that night, declaring he went
there because he heard there was
some kind of trouble and he wanted
to make sure no klansmen were mixed
up in it. i i