Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-23
THREE NAMES ARE ADDED TO ROSTER
OF ALLEGED MER ROUGE KIDNAPERS

| SInlLn.
"a lady was with told me it was
Blacksmith Smith," she replied.
do you know Newt Gray?"
ST do"
Didn't you say you recognized
Gray?'
81 thought L did, but I don't
| know"
'What did Blacksmith Smith say"
''IIe asked me did recognize him
on the road August "a. L told him
I did. He then offered me $3.50. L
refused it, and he gave it to my
baby. He told me not to tell on him,
and I said I wouldn't"
A personal experience with hood
ed men in MorehOuse parish was de-
scribed today by E. G. Osborne, 20,
| a witness.
Osborne, now a resident Of Madi-
son parish, testified he had an. or
der from the vigilant committee Civ
ing him ten days to leave Morehouse
parish. He said he received the no.
tice in February, 1922.
81 tried to make an investigation"
Osborne said, "but 1 was advised to
leave, and leave at once"
1.-THE note was delivered to me
| by a masked man. I asked him to
be allowed to stay, but he merely
flashed a light on his hood and then
Erode away. was up against it. |
had to sell my property. I realized
$160 for sixty acres of land. I went
to the sheriff and told him I had
been accused of making whisky and
for him to go to my place and make
| a search.
''I then vent to lawyer and he
told me was powerless and he
said the court was powerless. L
was then advised to leave the par
ish.''
The witness said he went to his
brother-in-law. Bud McCowin, and
| learned he, too, had received a warn
ing.
"I stayed there for about a day
and that night I was walking about
three miles from Bastrop when I
was surrounded by masked men. l
made a break through the woods and
got to Monroe" the witness conclud-
ed.
Letter Is Read
The letter addressed to McCowin
was produced, which Osborne said
was similar to the one he had re-
ceiVed
The text follows:
"This committee, after watching
your mode of living and your utter
disregard Of the laws of our land
against the manufacture and sale
of liquor, the peaceable and unmo-
Tested possessors Of property have
decided your open violation Of the
law and your constant depredations
upon the cattle, hogs, sheep and etc.,
of your neighborhood makes you a
most undesirable citizen.
"You will therefore accept this
as a notice and warning to you to
depart from the parish at the expi-
ration of ten days from the time of
receipt of same, never to return
again.
eff you fail to obey this order you
must stand the consequences.
(Signed) ''Vigilante Committee.
bud" McCowin, who followed Os-
borne on the stand, identified the
letter which he said he had received
f~om the vigilante committee. He
said he owned a small farm IN More
house parish.
Glow did you get this notice?"
parties came to the house on
| horses. They were dressed in white
masks and robes. They told me they
had a little note for me. When I
was handed the note they apurred
their horses and rode off"
"What had you done?"
''I don't know any reason why l
should have received the note. I
was working every day and had my
wife to support. I broke my foot
after leaving here and I appealed to
vigilantes to allow me to come back.
Mr.. Lum Adams tied it up for me
and I returned.
Dewey Brown, who said his age
was %, and he was the father of
four children, corroborated the testi-
mony Of BUD McCowin and testi-
fled he had received a note similar
to that of McCowin. He is Meow
ms son-in-law.
Appealed to Sheriff
''I went to the sheriff and he told
| me he would do all he could" said
the witness.
Brown added he interviewed sew
eral citizens and they told him they
Woull let him hear from them at 8
| o'clock the same morning.
"Lum Adams, the next morning
! told me he had it all fixed. Then l
lIlOI Gu SolL pCl1ICl, IIlS SnSIII1J clllOt
| he told me everything was all right;
| that this was a sixty days notice
and if I did not break any of the
rules would continue. I told the
! iheriff I would continue to live just
| as I always have and L haven't
| changed and I never will.
| Brown said he believed a debt
h owed Gus Calhoun was RESPONSE
| BILE for all of the trOubI.
H. c. Osborne, brother of Ed Os-
| borne, was asked why he left Bias
| trop.
my brother had a notice to leave
| and / was standing on a corner talk
in" to Mr.. Gus Calhoun. -Four black
hooded men jumped out of an au-
! tomobile threw their guns in my
face and told me to get in the car,
| and they carried me out on the
| Cooper Lake road. They stopped
| the car, took q small rope and held
it up in front of me. They claimed
[ was doing some big talking. They
| told me I wasn't paying any atten-
| ton to notices. They whipped me,
| but with my clothes on and while
was standing up, I got about fifty
| ticks. They hurt, but I was still
able to stand up I begged for mercy
| and they quit.
'They then told me to get out of
Bastrop and get out quick or they
| would break my neck. L left i'm
mediately and have not been back
since until today when was sum-
| moned by the court"
Osborne said he believed he had
been mistaken for his brother Ed as
Ed had received notice to leave
while he had not.
| ARGUMENT OVER KHAN
BLAMED FOR KILLING
MONROE, La, Jan. 22.-(By the
Associated Press).-Ku Klux Khan
activities in Morehouse parish was
the couse of the killing Friday night
Of John P. Parker, Jr., of this town
by Carey Calhoun, Of Bastrop, his
cousin, according to evidence adj