San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-12
MOB LETTERS
| ARE READ At
| OPEN HEARING
Threats Against Mer Rouge
Anti-Klan Shown in
Court.
SKIPWITH ASKS FARLEY
Cyclops and McKoin Named
as Members Of Holdup
Party.
SKIPWITH ASKS FARLEY

Bastrop, La. Jan. Estates at
korneys announced early today that
Captain J. X. Skipwith, exalted cyclops
bf the Morehouse parish Ku Klux Khan,
has requested conference with At
forney General A. V. Coco and his as
kistants in connection with the hooded
band atrocities in this parish. The re-
Eluest was granted, but no date fixed.
Captain Skipwith is said to have re-
5uested the conference in order to go
Into the full details of the operation
III the Morehouse khan since its organ
kzation and at the same time TO estab-
{ish that the operations of the black
hooded band was not under the super
kision of the khan.
Robert L. Dade, mayor Of Mer Rouge,
oday named DIR. Nj. b. Mcholn' zap
lain Skipworth. Kelly Harp and Ed
Hvey, as members of hu hiux Man
which held up and disarmed Watt Dan
4 ls, w. G. Andrews, Harry Neeiis, Mer
ktouge citizens, near the village OF Gal
lion, La, several months prior TO the
kidnapping and murder Of Daniel ana
XIh0InHS r. ldoN @hNSN
Dade had admitted previously thaI
10 was n member of the Khan band.
mir Dode also presented to following
wo letters to be read before the court.
yHe said he had received them in his
official capacity as mayor oil Mer
Rouge.
ben and ink.
AIer Rouge:
"Mer Rouge, Louisiana.
Called Condition Menacins.
"You are wallowing in cess-pool
bf corruntion and lawiessness that has
become a menace to the entire parish
lind surrounding country. You are
REhielding within your gates number
Who lived in open cOncubinage with
negro women, who manufacture and
He'll whiskey, who formulate plots to
ssassinate good citizens in the night
ime and who are deluging the good law
{ibiding citizens OF your parish with
written and oral threats against their
lives, This condition of affairs must
be rectified at once or we will sweop
Town upon your town and wipe out
Phe organization that is responsible for
hn.sJonditions and which is pleased to
ALT itself the Anti-Ku Klux Khan,
I'VE know every one OF the men
yho formulated and attempted TO exc
ute the plot TO ass2ssinate DE-. Nc
|soin. Two of them have passed into
bscurity and the balance will soon
hollow unless they read between these
ines and leave your community while
eaving is good"
The letter was signed Regulators.
The other letter, undated, read:
ITO the Honorable Mayor of Mer
Rouge: $50
dear Sir:
Denounces Anti-Klan.
I'VE are reliably informed that there
in your town bunch of disreput-
bic characters who call themselves the
Anti-Ku Klux Klan who openly violate
be laws by making whiskey, living in
oncubinage with negro women and
no are making a practice of writing
bme of the best citizens of your par
IN obscene, insulting and threatening
,tters and who actually attempted to
sassinate one of your leading citizens
nd physicians recently, forcing him
b leave the community.
"This is to notify you, as mayor OF
Ter Rouge, that we will give you ample
me to clean up this lawless condition
4 affairs and if you fail TO do 50
e will bring a thousand. men down
bere and do the job for you right.
"The names of the men who have
lt at the round table and planned
nd submitted the planning of the
ASSASSINATION of DR.. Mckoin are
blown TO us: we have had able men
4 get all the data up so now we know
they have said and done and We
i'll attend to them in due time"
This letter was signed 100 Per Cent
americans.