The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-07

two men with "Tot" Davenport, an- other of the Mer Rouge party who was taken prisoner. were put in an l automobile and taken to Collinston where they were released and told 1 they might catch astrain pacx to Mer Rouge. Davenport swas , not mis-
 treated, Andrews said.
 Dr. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, is now under bond to await disposition of a charge of murder on which he was arrssted recently in Baltimore in connedtien with the death of Daniel and Richards. Nc K oin voluntarily returned to More house parish yesterday after re- quest for his extradition had been refused by the governor Of Mary land He has asserted his innocence of any implication in the Kidnapping
 or staying of the men.
 Didn't Recognize Men
 T was told to go back home and | be good boy" Andrews said. II was asked if I recognized any of the men and when I said did not, l was told I ought to be glad I didn't" Andrews said that the flogging he received made it necessary that he uHutIBO IHtuiGdt lICdlfiCHb anu WhAtt khe was lying on the ground he was either struck or kicked.
 The elder Daniel like Andrews, declared that he was unable to rec ognize any of the members of the
 mob either by their voice or build
 The aged man declared that while he was being held, blind folded on the side of the road, he heard his granddaughter, a 15-year-old girl exclaim: "Oh, Watt! Oh, Watt!" During the course of his testimony Daniel declared that some time prior
 to the hold-up his son had reported to him that he and several com panions had been halted by klanse men in another part of the parish and his pistol taken from him. Recognized MciNoin He testified Watt told him he rec ognized one of the men as Dr. Me Koin, another as Capt. J. K. Skip with of Bastrop, and another as a man named Calhoun.
 Daniel said his son and his com panions were not harmed and that the pistol was returned to him later. A box of shells, taken at the same time, according to Daniel, was not re- turned.
 The testimony or the two phy- sicians and Daniel and Andrews oc-
 cupied all of today's sessIon which
 began shortly after 10 o'clock this
 morning and continued until nearly
 o'clock in the afternoon.
 pr. Duyal gave a minute desrcip- ton of the condition of the bodies and of the injuries inflicted at the
 morning session and much of the afternoon was. taken up with the statement made by Dr. Lanford cor roborating in detail the report made by Dr. Duval
 Both physicians declared that a dynamite explosion could mot have produced the injuries which the au- topsies showed. This point was em- phasized by the states legal rep
 resentatives in their questioning be-
 cause of the fact that the discovery
 of the bodies on the< surface of Lake
 LaFourche two weeks ago was preceded by a mysterious explosion
 which wrecked the banks of the lake. Nf
 Bones Brought In
 Both witnesses declared that if II
 had been possible an explosion of such force as would have been necessary would have torn the bodies to frag-
 ments.
 It was during the testimony of pr. Duval that the bones of the two men were brought into court under guard of soldiers and placed in evil dence as an exhibit to sustain the declaration of their shattered condi- tion. They were brought from New Orleans yesterday by detectives and placed under military guard until they wre brought into court today
 Thus the foundation Is believed to have been laid for what is expected to prove one of the most far-rcach- ing inquiries ever undertaken under
 the Louisiana open hearing law. Adjutant General l.. A. Toombs. of l the Louisiana national guard, who came to Bastrop several days ago