, 1923-01-07
AEVOLT|NG TALE
OF INQUISITI0N
UNF0LDS IN la.

H9@AN $1,000 -
smiling. a farmer of Mer Rouge.
Andrews. one of the five kidnapped
by the mob, said he Ind gone to Bas-
trop August "a to attend a baseball
game n barbecue with J.. T. Nor
worthy, riding with him in Andrews
car.
we got there about 9 or 10
O'Clock in the morning. in time to see
the first baseball game" he said.
"we left Just before shutdown"
pwhat lime did you RETURN" asked
Attorney General Coco.
~ started to return but I didn't
gel there,
fAbout a mile or so out of town, up
on n dump-thnt old tram road out
thtre-I was held up by a bunch of
black hooded men. There were about
fifteen or twenty OF them"
Twas that on a public road?"
"YeE, one man came 70 the side
where I was driving, pointed a gun
at me and told me to Set out. I did.
I was blindfolded and my hands tied
before me. They set me off at the
side of the road about rs &c so feet
away"
what DID they say to you"
pThey saId they wanted me. One
of them said here's one OF the men
We want"
"Did you hen recognize any of
them or recognize their voices?"
mo. I recognized the voice OF J.
L. Daniel, father OF Watt Daniel.
Then ! heard them say they wanted
some others. They got Richards
next. When they put him bsaide
me they asked. is hat you, W. CT
and 1 told him It was. I sal I guess
they are going TO get all Of u.s. and
he said Il reckon so.'
'They got Watt Daniel and Tot
Davenport, I recognized Watts
voice when they told ain to get up
I cues one OF them hoved him or did
something like that when he was slow
IN obeyinE. Watt said wait n min
ute. buddy, don't be so fast"
why did he say Sbuddy2' Those
hooded men were not buddies were
they7"
"Guess they were not,- said An
drews smiling,
what happened them"
They put us in a carr; nt least
they put me in a carr but ] couldn't
recognize any voices SO I didn't know
WHO else was III Llt Nhfs lnNf bAaIk
ed back down tho road"
Toward Mer Rouge. do you
mean7'
"No. Judge: lesstways I don't think
SO. / could tell they were turning tina
car around md 1 judge we came back
this way. for after q bit I could smell
the old pulp mill mighty strong
There was a shout Of laughter at
his.
There is a pulp mill located nsar
Bastrop.
"And did they keep you there7"
mo. 1t seems like to me they took
us out on the Monroe road soma
where. After We stopped somebody
told me Il get out OF the and I
did. They led me off d piece by my
arms and asked me what did 1 know
about the attempted assassination OF
DIR. B. NJ. McKoin. I said I didn't
know anything about It whatever.
and gave an account of myself on tho
night they say somebody shot at Me-
Roin."
ibid they seem satisfied with your
alfbi7'
mo sir. They said they knew I
had something to do with It and
would whip me to make ms tell. They
told me 10 pull down my pants. but
my hands were fastened and /
couldn't go they did It themselves and
threw me down IN my fane and
whipped me-"
Were you only logged or wero
you injured in other ways7"
well. I got a lick IN my fac some
way and one in my side that raised
up a knot about aa big as my fist.
tFThey left me lying there on the
ground and then they whipped old
j.. I. That was the first I knew that
j. l.. was with us. I heard him holler
and plead. They accused him of the
same thing they did me but I was
suffering so I couldn't listen to Whist
they were saying TO him. Then they
came back TO me and told me II I
couldn't talk and wouldn't talk, they
WIS a-going to hang me and I expect
they would I hadn't no idea TIL they
turned me loose In Collingston later
but what they meant 10 XIII me. 7
told 'em to 20 ahead and hang me
hut that wouldn't make me know any
thing about what they were aski1E
me and I couldn't die but onoe any
RAJ and I was suffering no much I
didn't much care II I did die"
what happened then1'
"They put us in the car. I didn't
know hen but what It was only me
IN the car and some man that I saw
later had a black hood on down to
his (mid bresso took me out OF tho
car and turned me loose right across
from the depot in the main street OF
Cof1inRston and told me I was to stay
there and not look back but catch
the train back to Mer Rouge about
10 or II O'Clock"
did you look hack7'
Eyes. SIR. 7 did. He walked away
from me- about as far ns from here
20 the door by that time and 7 could
zee he had On HIS black hood yet and
then J. L. and Tot came up and
helped mo across the tracks TO where
I could lay down because I was suf.
SerinF so I could hardly walk"
ibid the mob that kidnapped you
wear khan regnlla7" Andrews was
asked.
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