The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-24
BOOTLEGGER CONVICT FEELS GUILTY MOREI
 THAN DOES MURDERER
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 23,- What class of convicts would you think could look you straight in the eye? Prison guards and officials of Kilby prison say there Is only one class that can square you in the eye while talking to you
 Robbers. nor liquor. distillers-in fact, none of the prison inmates can look into the eye of the guard fear lessly except the murderer.
 According to the psychology of the guards, some of whom have for years been constantly associated with prisoners. it. Is explained in this man ner;
 Those who are here for robbery, violation of the prohibition laws and other criminology, knew they were doing the wrong thing at the time the crime was perpetrated. It was care fully planned out on their part and they just have that 'guiltiest' feeling, while the murderer did his crime in the moment of passion, of terrible anger, without considerate fore thought and his conscience in reality Is much clearer than any other class of criminal.
 At least that Is the way 1t worked on the law of averages. though of course there are exceptions to the rule"
 They don't want me; they had me last week"
 Richards was taken out by small party of masked men on August IT and questioned concerning an alleged attempt to assassinate Dr. B. NJ Me Koin, former mayor of Mer Rouge.
 The testimony of Broadnax was along the same line as that of Mason. Broadnax said he saw Daniel and An drews sitting on the steps of the court house. Captain Skipwith was talking to a group of men nearby and I saw him point out Daniel and Andrews to the men," he said. "The men were strangers to me. I didn't think much of 1t at first, but after the Kidnapping it looked mighty funny to me"
 Recently Joined klan
 Three witnesses from Monroe, F. R. Surguin, Paul Melton and J. D. Lamken, who were on their way from Bastrop to Monroe that evening, overlook the kidnapers and their prisoners and were halted about 200 yards from the fork of the Monroe Collinston road. Each was ques- toned particularly as to the distance from the fork they were stopped. An other witness last week had testified that he saw Captain Skipwith, un- masked, conversing with a hooded man at the fork after the Kidnapping Daniel and Richard were last seen at Collinston, where their captors stopped for 9 supply of gasoline and liberated J. L. Daniel, Watts father; "Tot" TaVenport and Andrews. who were made prisoners with Watt and Richard
 Clarence Teegerstrom, brother of Harold Teegerstrom. timekeeper at the Southern Carbon company at Spy ker who disappeared on the night of December 29 and for whom both the state and department of justice agents have been searching, testified tc having received note from his brother on January l2. Teegerstrom electrified the spectators and officials by admitting that ks was a member CT of the Ku Klux hlan, and in re- ply to a question stated that he hal joined the organization the first of tllIs month,
 Bore UncancelIed stamp
 The letter from hts brother, he tes- tified. bore an unca1celled two-cent stamp and it was handed to him bv Dean Ashcraft, who said it had been taken cut of the mail box of the Ca-- bon company by s. I. Bennett, the SUI perintendent.
 1farold's communication assured Clarence that he was all right and would be on hand when the state wanted him as witress. and that he .1 Jof rnzo strom explained that "Mr. Jeff was T Jeff Burnett, now at liberty under 5000 bail on a murder charge in connection with the Daniel Richard case. Burnett has been identified by several witnesses as having been a member of the Kidnapping band, but one eniploye of the carbon plant, at which Burnett was working at the time, testified that he was on duty the night of the outrage.
 In this connection 1t is known that the state has taken steps to bring the time books of the Carbon company and other records into court for ex- animation, for these would be ex- at work. It is currently reported that the time book kept by Teegerstrom has been tempered with.
 Handwriting Exhibited Clarence Teegerstrom was ques- toned at length concerning his edu- cation. which he said had been ob- tained at Kane, Pa, from which city the family moved to Louisiana. A note, supposedly from his brother was dictated to him by one of the attorney generals staff, along with la series of numerals and fractions and the specimens of handwriting were filed as an exhibit in the case
 Teegerstrom said that when he had permitted his wife and father to read the communication from Harold he had destroyed 1t after committing it to memory. Asked if destruction of the note was not an extraordinary procedure in as much as it was the first word received directly from his brother. and that since he did not see him again. Teegerstrom replied that The did not think so-
 During his testimony he stated that when notified of Harold's disappear ance he had employed a detective to search for him. He said the detec- tive was retained only a few days and when asked for the name of the investigator he flatly refused to give it. Asked why he did not report re- ceipt of the letter to federal agents who were attempting to find Har- old, he replied that he did not think it was any of their business The first time officials learned that Clar- ence had heard from Harold came Monday, when Victor Teegerstrom