The Washington times., 1923-01-14

Unforeseen Peryersity, the Dynamite
le Corpses Free from the Weights
Anchored Them 70 the Bottom. Ia.
Utterly Shattering the Remains So
. Scattered Pieces Would Be Lost
In the Shiny Mud Of the Lake
Enough Of Each Corpse Floated TO-
face 20 Give the Positive 1denki6ca.
Each Missing Man and supply the
ties With the One VitaIly ImpOrl
sing Link II the Chain Of Evidene
Which They Required.
who could identify several Of the men
under the masks.
When thirty-fve. men gather anywhere
IN any community for any undertaking
there win, somewhere among those thirty-
i've, be men who lose their nerve in the
face Of danger. This is cardinal
principle Of procedure BY all experienced
detectives. It is often difficult to convict
= solitary murderer or robber. IL Is
never difficult to convict when half 4
dozen men are concerned in the crime.
The task Of the detective IS to study
carefully his prisoners and pick the weak
est character and break him down.
The thirty-five men who wore those
hoods that August afternoon have long
been known to the Federal detectives
uraI Env,.S1~v
history Of each man has been inquired
into. The detectives long since marked
the weak ones. A campaign was started
to bring pressure upon some of these
weak members of that hooded party BY
working upon the fears Of wives,
mothers, fathers and children.
Would you rather have your husband
hold his tongue and be hanged or do
what he can to make PREPARATION by tell
ing what he knows and living out the
rest of his years in his home?"
This haunting question has been put
earnestly to relatives Of some Of the
weaker members of the group. The aIi-
swer has been as the detectives expected
it would be. Mothers, wives and chill
dren have begged their dear one to aid
the authorities and save his neckand the
detectives now have the sworn confess
sions of several members of the hooded
thirty-five.
And along with this has come reaction
among the more sOber-minded members
of the Khan. Swayed by religious zeal
to suppress Roman Catholic or Jewish in
f1uence or on account of the Klan's
attitude in favor of prohibition, many
had Joined the hooded brotherhood. But
these men have no sympathy for murder,
and il Wanton lawlessness is to be pro-
tected under the hoods of the Khan, they
range themselves up with the forces Of
law and order.
The national officials of the Ku Klux
deny that the men who killed Daniels and
Richards were Klansmen. They point out
that any party of cutthroats can wear
hoods and counterfeit the costumes of the
Khan. If it is proved that the knights"
who killed Daniels and Richards were
Klansmen they promise prompt cancella-
ton of the local charter
OF course, the weightier and most inn
portant evidence which the prosecuting
authorities have secured will not be dis
closed until the murder trials begin.
Attorney General Coco, who has be-
fore him all The secret reports of the de-
tectives,. affidavits of witnesses and the
confessions of members of that August
afternoon party, has said this of the APP
preaching murder trial:
4 never felt more sure of having hold
OF the right lines and having the evl-
dence to convict within our grasp.
"The whole affair is the most horrify-
ing that ever mas come to my notice. You
ask if the bodies of Daniels and Richards
had been mutilated. Why, they had been
most outrageously mutilated. can never
recall more revolving case. 1t beggars
description.
t'When the State unearths the evidence
which we are getting in hand it will not
only horrify this State and our own peo-
ple. but it will also shock the nation. To
me it is inconceivable that such despera-
ton and such outrages could have been
practiced in our State and in our very
midst in this day and age.
'There was nothing in the Spanish In
ouisition, nothing in the religious perse-
cutions of the Romans. that will surpass
the cruelties practiced in the mob's
handling of Daniels and Richards, and
which have passed unnoticed all these
months. The details will be shocking
when they are finally brought to light,
as they surely must be-"
And in. all the strange details of this
strange murder trial nothing stranger will
be put in evidence than the story of how
the stealthy midnight explosion of that
1000 pounds of dynamite, which was i'm
tended to scatter the victims splintered
bodies in the mud of the lake, brought
the bodies to the surface and delivered
into the hands of the law officers the
vitality important evidence they could not
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