Evening star., 1923-01-07
TWO MEN WHIPPED
BY MOB |MPL|CATE
M'KO|N'S FRIENDS
KIan Mentioned for First
Time in Probe of Lake
Tragedy.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associa ted Press
BASTROP, La, January 6-watt
Daniel and Fletcher Richards were
| put to death on rack of torture, the
victims of a black hooded mob, last
August. according to testimony OF
two pathologists. put into the record
today in the states investigation into
| masked band outIawry in Morehouse
parish.
Exhibiting crushed and broken
bones as evidence. Dr. Charles Duval
| and DIR. John Lanford testified that
scientific examination of the bodies
of the two men showed they had been
| tortured on a device specially con-
structed for inf1icting punishment"
Victims story.
| Two witnesses. J. l. Daniel, father
| OF Watt. and W. c. Andrews, de.
! scribed members OF the mob which
halted the party en- route from Bas.
| the evening of August "a last, al
| black hooded.
| Both Daniel. a man nearly seventy
years old, and Andrews, twenty five
declared they were f1ogged.
The father of Watt Daniel, one Of
the alleged victims Of the kidnapping
last August. today testified that sew
| men had halted him and several COM
panions and taken's Daniels pistol.
Tho father testified that Watt said
he recognized among these men, who
later returned the pistol, DR.. B. NJ.
McKoin. formerly mayor of Mer
Rouge. and Capt J. *. Skipwith. ex-
allied cyclops of the Morehouse parish
khan.
Tells OF Capture.
Andrews testified he was beaten
until he was numb. The elder man
declared he was not given more than
four or five blows.
The testimony of the two men was
along much the same lines. They
declared they were returning from
Bastrop, where they attended a bar
becue and base ball game. and were
halted by an automobile parked across
the road.
I'VE were stopped at a cross-road, -
Andrews testified, "by a crowd of
men-fifteen or twenty-who wore
black hoods.
"One came to the car in which I
was riding. covered me with a gun
and ordered me to the road. 1 was
blindfolded with a red bandana hand
Y
was taken to the side of the road.
Soon after the elder Daniel was taken
prisoner and seated beside me. 1 heard
a voice which / recognized as that
of Watt Daniel saying Wait a minute,
don't be so fast
"Then I was questioned as to an
attempt which had been made to as
sasdnate DR.. McKoin. j told them 1
knew nothing of it; that was in an
other part of the parish at the time.
They said they knew | mad something
to do with 1t and were going to
whip me to make me tell"
Khan Is Mentioned.
Andrews declared he did not rec
ognize any of the men.
Whom do you suspicion?" he was
asked.
Andrews said he had no suspicion
as to the identity of the men, but ex-
pressed a belief 1T was some MEM
bers of the khan if not the khan or
ganization." This was the first men
ton of the khan in the testimony
given at the hearing.
"They took me down the road, but
wouldn't say what they intended to
do with me-" Andrews said. .'It
seemed that we passed through Bas-
trop. Then L was taken from the
car and questioned as to an attempt
on the life of DR.. McKoin."
Andrews said that he knew nothing
of IL. but that his captors expressed
themselves as doubling his statement.
"They said they were going to whip
me and make me tell. Then they whip
ped me-
Andrews said that the men next
threatened to hang him, but finally
released him at Collinston, a town a
short distance from Bastrop. He was
told to ''go back home and be good
boy" Andrews testified.
Whipped by Mob.
Andrews said apparently between
thirty and forty blows were given
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