The New York herald., 1922-12-07
Says That His Organization
Never Intimidated Ed
ward S. Brogan.S
KNOWS OF NO LOCAL 81
District Attorney Trying to
Find if Note to Candidate
Is Authentic.

Some one has been shadowing the
Rev. DR.. Oscar Haywood. local Klokard
for the XII Klux Klan. He also is re-
ceiving threatening letters. one OF
which, whose contents the Klokard re-
fuses to divulge. was written by a
negro who signed himself "Chief of
the Gunmen."
Another letter came from an un-
classified white man who let 1t be
known with a burning pen that he
bears little love for Klans and their
Klokards. Dr. Haywood did not make
this letter public either.
The Klokard let these things be
known yesterday after he saw a letter
alleged to have been written last Sep
tember to Edward S. Brogan, who was
a candidate in the primaries for the
Democratic nomination for General
Sessions.
Ferdinand Pecora, Assistant District
Attorney, showed photostatic copies of
the letter, saying he hoped to prove 1t
genuine Klan warning, and that 1t
constituted the offense the Prose-
cutor's office needs to proceed against
the Khan as body.
Knows No Khan in city.
Mr.. Pecora said he was considering the
advisability of calling DR.. Haywood to
his office to view the letter. Also Mr..
Pecora would like the Klokard to
identify, II he will OBJ can, New York
Khan No. 81 or 21, which unit of the
Invisible Empire is supposed 'to have
warned Brogan to drop from the race
or suffer dire consequences. To which
the Klokard replied. scoffingly:
mo member of the Klan wrote any
such letter at any time. No, 1 don't
know where Klan 81 or q Is located
l do not know where any Klan is To-
Gated. I don't know member OF the
klan here in New York city,"
That's strange" the doctors inter-
viewer ventured. You're one Of the
Klan organizers. aren't you?"
mo, I'm not snapped DIR. Haywood
"I'm a lecturer. I'm not an organizer.
No klansman ever wrote that Brogan
letter. We never threaten people. But
rye been threatened. Also men are fol-
lowing me. I'd say that the white man
who wrote me was religionist. Maybe
II couldn't be construed as a threat
either. Anyway I'd say from the tone
of the letter that a Roman Catholic
wrote 1t.
Yes, and moreover. have been fol-
lowed. The other day myself and some
of my assistants observed a man follow
ing us on the street. We decided to test
him out We'd stop and he'd stop. II
seemed that he had others with him.
maybe five others. But of that I can't
be sure. At any rate I turned corner
and so did he.
"'See here I said to him, what do
you want?'
Nothing he replied.
"'Wer, why are you following me%
"I'm not following you,' he said.
Won't Appeal to Police.
But 7 know that he was following
me. On another occasion man boarded
the elevator with me and knew at ono,
that he was following me. He got of
at my floor In the hotel and was right
behind me. He was a huge man anc
apparently a Jew. But the young lady
floor clerk stopped him. He stopped
but asked her whether 1t was my room
that he saw me enter"
why don't you appeal to the Dis.
trict Attorney or the police?" the K1o
kard was asked.
mo. no." he protested. "T have but
one life to give and IL need be / shall
give 1t in a good cause"
MIR. Pecora did not make great pro.
gress for tho day in his researches into
the mysterious ways OF the klansman
He said he had talked to one mana