New Britain herald., 1923-05-10
BOY KIDNAPPED IN NAME OF K. K. KHAN
Masked and Armed Gang Raids
 New Jersey Residence


 year-old youth, George Titus or Wss' Relmar, x, J., last night told beleeT tive Charles q, Davenport ot AehT mouth county, that i've masked men who told him they were kA klhA Klansmen took him from his home m an automobile two miles 10 ehsfN River Hill, and threatened ta hahs him and cut up his hedy wth butcher knife unless he eohlessea stealing $50 the Kian had given 10 hls mother They showed him the knlte and the rope on tree,
 When the youth refused 10 confess, as he said. he was driven 10 w'thlh n mile of his home and thrown on' in the rain and nud 10 make lae rest of the way the pest he could
 William Rademan, q manufacturer of knitting goods, who lives on 18th avenue, West Belmar, Wlth whom the boy has been living for thfee months since his father and mother separated, recognized two Of me h'e men when they took the boy away. he told polce. and arrests were said to be imminent.
 If was the first time any outrage in this vicinity had been laid direct ly to the Ku Kiux Kan by com plainants to the police,
 A month ago the. Beimar Kan, the only one known tb have been or- pnnized along the New Jersey coast where the organization has met with rebuff, publicly issued a statement 1t was going to help Mrs Titns' mother of eight children, who Is now in the Spring Lake hospital. Her husband is living in Belmar. Fol- lowing the announcement man Tn full Kan regalia of robe and hood went in broad daylight to where Mrs. Titus was living and gave her soo m tho name Of the Klan. The men who did the kidnapping. however. did not wear Kan robes but had handker- | chiefs tied around their faces.
 Rademan has been sending young Titus to high school and the youth was in bed when there was knock 1 at the front door at 9 o'clock Tues- day night.
 Demanded to Sec Boy. | Rademan looked out the window and saw three men on the front porch. He asked what they wanted and they replied they wanted 10 talk with young Titus. Radcman de- murred, but the men demanded fhe ;. boy, he said, and he finally went out on the porch. In front of the house was an automobile with the engine running and a man at the wheel.
 He said the men had pistols and pushed their way past him and rar up the stairs to the youths room He was in bed, but they ordered him to get up and dress, which he did
 When he had put on his clothe! young Titus was led from the house by the arms and placd in the auto mobile, told, he said, that if he made any outcry he would be killed. 4 fifth man who evidently had guarded the rear of the house joined th' :, others and the car sped away. Through the rain and night the ca sped to Shark River Hill, young Titu told Detective Davenport. There thu car was stopped and he was dragged out in the mud.
 '"The five men accused me of talk ing $50 from my mother,' Titus sait to the detective. They told me thu $50 was given by the Kan to m, mother about a month ago to hell her along. They told me they knev I had taken 1t and unless I admitted stealing 1t they would hang me to ; tree from which there hung a rope
 Showed The Rope.
 After they showed me the rope the. told me that after they had hung m, they would cut up my body and throv 1t into Shark River. They as, threatened to cut my throat with large knife which one of them shovet in front of my face when I woult not admit taking the money.
 ''They kept me on top of the nil with the rain pouring on me for nor, than two hours and then finall, threw mo into the automobile agail and taking a roundabout route threv me out of the car near New Bedford a. mile from home.
 'They said they would kill me 1 I told anyone about what had oc cured. I had to walk home in tn, cold and rain"
 Young Titus said he did not knov any of the men, but Rademan sait he felt sure he knew two of them.
 The identity of the man in Klal robes who gave the money to Mrs I Bessie Titus never became known, a far as the police could learn. II walked through the streets to wher