San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-25
VICTIM
. SPIES ON KHAN
FOR REVENGE
o." 8
Manufacturer Accuses Ma
% con Dentist of Weld
ing Whip.
ENTlCED INTO CAR
Khan Hall Watched Until
Yarbrough Recognized,
He Says.
ENTlCED INTO CAR
By ihe Associated Press.

Macon, Ga. sept. 2O.-lne STATE
at the opening Of todays session OF
the trial of DR.. c. A. Narbrough on
charge of riotin- began an effort
TO connect the dentist with an anony-
omcus letter received by W. Q. Bar
nett, who charges that DIR. Iarbrough
was the leader of band of men who
flogged him last February. The state
contends that this letter was written
on n typewriter in DR.. larbrough's
office.
Mrs. Eva McNiichael. a stenograph-
er. was the first witness called. She
identified a letter she wrote on DR..
Iarbrough's typewriter on orders
from her employer, DIR. G. I. Miller.
A. II. Delaney, n typewriter expert,
followed her and testified that. in his
opinion. both the letter identified by
Mrs. McAichael and the anonymous
letter were written on the same ma
chine.
The trial Of the dentist-defendant.
on the charge of being a member Of
; the band that flogged Barnett, started
yesterday. The consideration Of vari-
Gus motions and selection Of the jury
+ took up most of the time OF the
court.
: How he stood in a darkened hallway
for weeks near the hall in which the
; Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held
!. their meetings and watched members
of the khan going 10 and from the
: hall, was related yesterday by W. y.
Barnett, harness manufacturer, fog
/. ged by a band of men on February
!. IL, 1923.
\ Barnett told how a man had called
: him from his place of business the
: night of February IL, telling him that
one of his children had been struck by
4 an automobile. He went with the
:. man and got into an automobile, in
! which were two other men, he said.
> He declared that DR.. Yarbrough was
Z in this party.
The men grabbed him, Barnett said
: and put handouts on him. After
reading charges that he had failed Ia
>, provide for his family and beaten his
3 children, they whipped him, he said
He asserted that DIR. Yarbrough wal
: the man who welded the lash.
1t was on cross-examination tina
Barnett told of his hunt for the flog
=, gers. He said that he watched thu
: Ku Klux Khan hall night after nigh
y until finally one night he recognized
a the dentist as the leader of the flog
2 gers.
= In response TO questions by Johr
p. Ross, counsel for defense, regard
. ing whether or not the members Of the
2 khan entered the hall as though they
were afraid of being recognized, ht
y said that many OF them pulled theil
!. hats down so their faces could not bt
seen. The attorney. admitting that hC
q was a member of the ku Klux Khan
! asked if he had been recognized BY
< the witness.
d Il diln't hide, did T." the attorney
asked.
- NO, you walked up and down th'
z sidewalk. You may have been OF
guard" was the reply.
- He declared at the close OF th'
q cross-examination that Dr.. Yarbrougi
8. was not disguised the night Of th'
= flogging.
= An anonymous letter Barnett salt
: he found lying on his desk threaten
:, ing TO flog him again ii he did not ii
- certain things for members Of his fam
2 lily was introduced. Efforts Of In
= defense TO get into the testimony Ger
!. =. tain questions regarding Barnett's al
= legged conduct toward his family wer
3 oyerruled.