The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-25
ave Of Youth Believed To Have Been
WAS CARDO VICTIM OF. FL0GGERS AS CLAIMED
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 seen whipping cases where the per- sons involved were actually whipped. He moved about without a sugges- ton of pain He went to the coun court house Tuesday morning, he said, and paid the costs in case in Judge II. B. Abernethy's court relative to q charge of non-support brought by his wife.
 Questioned about two checks which Mrs. Cardo. in her room above Co., kers grocery store in Pratt City, had mentioned to The Age Herald repre- sentative shortly before Cardo was interviewed, he admitted that he had signed the checks and pre-dater them to read Monday. April 2S' He said they were made payable 10 cash and that he had ordered payment stopped on them because he figured that they were not In payment of legitimate debts because he was drunk when he had signed them.
 One Check Cashed.
 One check was for s60 and the other for $I00, both drawn on the Bank of Ensley. Two men presented them for payment Monday morning, the sl00 check being paid. I'll. Green" indorsed the check. The. $6o check was not paid because of insufficient funds, Cardo said. but he declared Tuesday night he would see that 1t was made good. Asked to whom, he said he didn't know wh ohad the check. He said he had asked his wife Monday morning to stop payment. Later payment was okehed.
 Cardo said he was questioned by Ensley police and deputy sheriffs Tuesday morning. Solicitor Jim Da- wis also interviewed him. He said he told the authorities he had no com plaint to make against anybody; that he had not been flogged, and was at a loss to know how the report had been circulated.
 Cardos young son is said to have told neighbors Monday that his father had been whipped by "Ku Klux" and that eight men in an automobile had dropped him at the house at 4;15 o'clock Monday morning.
 Mrs. Cardo's story.
 Mrs. Cardo told The Age-Herald representatives story differing al- most entirely from that of her hus- band. She said she believed her hus was afraid to make known the facts
 "1 left my husband about s:30 o'clock Sunday morning to spend the day with my mother in Norwood. after he had told me he was going to Edgewater The next time l saw him was at 4;15 o'clock Monday morning, when he staggered into our room without his hat, coat, shoes or socks" Mrs. Cardo said.
 "When I asked him, What in the world Is the matter with you?' he told me to shut up, that he had been beat up near Wylam."
 Mrs. Cardo said her husband told her Monday morning when he came in that man had stopped him and a Sk ed hin his par ma and that a told him it was none of his business. Her husband. she said, was not drunk. but seemed to have been beaten into semi i-unconsciousness, and that she was unable to get anything further out of him. She said he imm ediately went to bed complaining of being ex- tremely sore. She said his right side below his ribs was badly bruised and that his feet were swollen.
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 Knows No Reason.
 T do not know of any reason why my husband should have received such treatment, but I am convinced that he was flogged whether he ad d- mits it or not" Mrs. Carlo said. She went on to say she had been ques- toned by Ensley detectives and of ficers from the sheriff's department and that she had told them every de- tail as her husband had outlined the case to her Monday morning.
 Mrs. Carlo said she and her hus- band had been separated for several months, but were again living to- gether. She did not connect the al- legged flogging with family troubles
 Deputy Sheriffs Ball and George Shirley were Investigating the case Tuesday and will intcrrogate Cardo again Wednesday. City Detectives G. M Bragan and Ensley Officers Gal lupp and McEntire also are working on the case. Ensley officers Tuesday Were inclined to treat the matter lightly.