The New York herald., 1922-12-11
ROBBED KLANSMAN
PLEADS in CHURCH
Irish Policeman, Crowd or Gig
Cling Girls Have Affect
on Propagandist.
QUICKLY MAKES ESCAPE
Stalls on Jew and Catholic
in Attempting Harangue
on Tenets.

New York city got it's first glimpse
Of a publicly worn regalia of the Ku
Klux Klan last night. On Saturday
the Rev. DIR. Robert McCaul, pastor
Of the Washington Avenue Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, advertised in a
Brooklyn newspaper that all that
came to hear him preach last night
would have the pleasure of seeing a
man in Klansnlan clothes.
DR.. McCaul's pews were overflowing.
Just after the collection bad been taken
up and the offertory sing. the main
door on Washington avenue opened and
impressively and silently tall figure
in flowing white robe and a peaked
hood stalked into the church.
He strode up TO the platform. Out Of
a pocket he pulled a skroll. But this
was no experienced Klansman. He was
neither Klokard nor Kladd. for either a
ed forth at once into a sermon on the
Kloran. Moreover. ne would have done
II In a firm. stern voice.
But this Klansman had n nervous,
falsetto voice. He tried to speak up. He
choked, stammered and tried to make a
fresh start Some one giggled. A row of
young girls on one side of the church
began tittering. The Klansman began
twisting the hem of his robe A sergeant
OF police and patrolman standing In
the rear held a consultation. The Klans-
man began to weaken.
Dr. McCaul was standing placfdly on
the platform and the poor Klansman
looked appealingly at the minister. DIR.
McCaul gave the lonely citizen of the
Invisible Empire a reassuring nod and
the latter's voice began to return.
MY dear friends" he squeaked "I
want to read this-this statement. This
this order-this order has been formed
to meet the need OF the times--of the
times--to put down--to put down law
lessness. to see that the law Is obeyed.
to uphold Professionalism, to oppose the
grabbing Of the country by the-by the
by the Jews"
1t was noticed that the sergeant and
the patrolman were in consultation
again Also he saw the patrolman. whose
features suggested having been as
sembled on an island that lies due west
of ENGLAND take a firm grip on his
nightstick.
The KIansman voice became thinner.
He was heard to say something about
the Catholics, and then. In desperation,
ne ended his address:
ITO put down--the bootlegger and
and-make the white race supremc--su-
preme."
Then he took a chair on the rear OF the
platform while DR.. McCaul delivered his
sermon, In which he said that he ia
vored the ideals of the Ku Klux Klan
but not its methods. When the pastor
had finished the Klansman slipped
through door to a room In the rear OF
the church. There was a small rush to
have a closer view of this champion or
white supremacy. but there must have
been another door in that room or else
the xlansman took It through window
for he had vanished.
"Are you a member OF the klan?'
the reporters asked DR.. McCaul
mo-" he replied. II haven't been
asked. Anyway, I'm not ready to join
IT,"
who was the Klansman7'
II can't tell you that. But he's about
25 years old. on Friday went to the
Classon avenue police station and asked
Capt. Thomas Bremen whether there
would be any objections TO this affair
tonight. The captain said II would be
all right didn't ask him to send
those policemen tonight, but 1 guess
he did Il as an afterthought."