The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-10
GIRL BANISHED
BY KHAN MOB
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said that's what we are going to do
now
Were You hurt?"
NO. but DIR. McKoin struck
mother"
DO YOU make the positive state
ment that you saw DR.. Mckoin strike
your MOTHER
Struck Her Mother
Yes, he hit her with hts hand. She
was trying to push him back out Of
the door
Dr. Mckoin. sitting in the gallery
OF the courtroom, leaned forward in his
seat. His face was expressionless as
he stared steadily at the girl.
After they were in the house did
your mother cry?'
Yes, she begged them to let me
STAY with her"
what did they tell YOU at the de
pot?"
They said that il didn't leave on
that train they would tar and feather
me. They told my mother that If
didn't go they'd tar and feather her
too"
Had you received any warnings
before"
NO"
AT the time this Happened how old
we're you?"
Sixteen"
She said she had 81 Of her own
money with her and 50 cents change
from the 81 given her by the hooded
men.
when did you leave Little Rock
and come back"
"On the lost Of May. got a letter
from mother to come home. I went
back, but all the time l was scared
TO death"
What kinds OF hoods did they
wear?"
They wore black hoods and long
black robes"
4 asked them how they expected
me 10 live in Little Rock without my
parents. and DR.. Mckoin said: They
can go too il they want to Mr.. Kirk
patrick gave me his flashlight when
they left me at the depot"
The super government" IN More
ficials probing the murders Of Watt
Daniel and Thomas Richards, declared.
Daniel and Richards, victims Of
black masked mob, started a rebel
lion" IN the parish when they re
fused to obey warnings of the alleged
''snper government" Attorney Gen
eral Coco said.
The black hood Of terror and death
worn by the mob which tortured
and murdered Watt Daniel and
Thomas Richards. was stripped off
late yesterday by the State and held
up 10 the Nation as the mask OF the
Ku-I<lux Kan in action"
In testimony presented In open
hearing. the States legal forces,
backed by fits military and the De
partment Of Justice. has publicly di-
rected its fire for the first time
straight at the invisible empire, and
the klan's foes have hailed tbs re
port Of its guns as first note sound
ing the approaching doom Of a
masked domain admittedly powerless
to control the excuses of its out
posts.
James T Noteworthy, planter and
former official of the khan. swore that
the black hoods Of the men who kid
mapped Daniel and Richards and tor
tured them to death as If by ritual.
wore khan regalia-"the terror mask
Of the khan. worn when they went
on the warpath, his testimony re
moved ali doubt that Attorney Gen
eraI Coco and his staff Intend to name
klansmen in MorehOuse parish as
fiendish torturers and murderers.
Quotes Klan CyClOps
Noteworthy attributed the following
statement to Capt. J. J. Skipwith, ex-
allied cyclops OF the khan in MorehOuse
parish:
There have been six Objectionable
people in Mer Rouge. We have got
two Of them and Wen have to get the
other four"
The other four whom Skipwith thus
condemned, Noteworthy said. We're
Hugo Davenport, A. c. Whipple,
Walter Campbell and Thomas Miller
All are known as enemies Of the Khan.
Noteworthy said he had saved his own
brother from KHAN punishment" by
intervening with Skipwith.
The witness identified q black hood