The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-07

1 guarding the highway. The deputy displayed his badge, whereupOn, he testified later. several .revolyers wer levelled 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 Insle wood police station for more. Wher he got back to the scene of the raid the crowd had dispersed.
 Three Men Shot
 The three men shot by Woerner were carried into the town, where they were found to be M. B. Mosher Inglewood constable: Walter E Mosher, his son. and Leonard Ruegs deputy constable. The elder Mosh or died about an hour after he was shot. .r%
 Meanwhile the Elduayens had been home.
 set free several miles from their
 An inquest was held three days after the raid. in an Inglewood un- dertaking establishment Blake E Shambeau. traffic officer. testified that the raid had been organized the night of April 21. in the same room where the inquest was being held. md that at the same meeting candi- dates for admission to the Ku Klut Klan had been initiated by Baker. He and other witnesses said Baker led the raiders in the attack upon the Elduayens Coburn Testified he was in Inglewood 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 1t.
 A few days after the inquest 8 squad of deputy sheriffs, equipped with search warrants. entered Co burns office and seized. all docu- ments relating to the Ku, Kfux Klan Later District Attoraey Thomas Lee woolwine declared the documents contained conclusive evidence" that the Klan was officially concerned with the Inglewo6d raid and with other acts of violence in its Pacific Domain" which includes the states of California. Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico The documents con tained many thousands of cards which appeared to be applications for membership, the signatures to which, the district attorney declared, ap- peared to provide practically com plete list of members for the entire Domain The district attorney sent lists of the alleged members to off cials of various other countries in California and other states. several of which started investigations of all legged acts of Klansmen in those places
 Grand Jury Reports
 The Los Angeles grand jury exam ined about 125 witnesses Tn addition to checking over the documentary evidence. Coburn and Price were in | Atlanta. Ga. where the supreme head. quarters of the Klan are located, when the indictment was filed. but returned and furnished bail. All the others. also gave bail.
 Those indicted by name in addi- tion to the officials were the fol lowing:
 W. A. Alexander, l.. L. Bryson, J. R. Hamilton. J. P Reed and Ernest Schultz, of Hunting Park: R. D. Aylesworth. J. c. Baum, H. c. Beav- ar. Nathan H. Cherry. Warren Hall, William Hall. T. H. Jennings. H. A. McCallister, Walter E. Mosher, w. D. Record. D. J.. Robichaux. Leonard Ruegg. Thc'nas E Truelove. Walter H. Ulm and H. A. White. of Ingle- wood: Charles. J. Brown Charles C,etro. Gustav Leonhardt. Roy Mears and Malcolm L. Whaley, of Venice: M D. Hurl6urt. F.. C. Lemon and F. M. Walton. of Bell; M D. Mall, liar vev c. Leavitt and Russell Williams. of Los Angeles: William F. Michael and F.. W. Reid. of Redondo Beach. and J P. Williams. of Culver City. MDsy thcp,