Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-25
MER ROUGE PHONE
OPERATOR TELLS Of
MESSAGE ORDERS
Between Five and Fifty In
dictmentS Are Predicted
by Attorney General Coco
as Hearing Nears End

DerlanQ IelepnOue COIIpdHys lSol1-
flying this afternoon at the More
house hearing, declared Captain j..
K. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the
Morehouse Ku KluX Khan, called up
on her after she had gone on duty
one evening and requested that she
not send or receive any messages
between Bastrop and Mer Rouge.
Assistant Attorney General Guion,
who was conducting the examination
asked if it was not the night of Au-
gust "a, the date upon which Watt
Daniel and T. F. Richard were kid
mapped. Miss Weilmann insisted she
did not remember.
"You have a telephone line from
Bastrop to Mer Rouge?" Miss We'll
man was asked.
Eyes sir"
"Do you remember whether you
reported to your company someone
had to be employed to repair tele-
phone wires?'
mo SIR
"Do you remember of anyone
coming into your office and telling
you not to stnd or receive any mes
sages over your wire?'
Eyes, it was Captain Skipwith. He
told me not to take or sen dany calls
to Mer Rouge"
Doesn't Remember Date
did he say anything further?"
mo sir, that's ALL
''Do you remember if that was on
the day of the kidnaping?"
I don't"
"It was rather IAN unusual re-
quest to maker"
Eyes, no one had ever asked me
that before"
do you remember whether the
request was made when the connec-
ton with Mer Rouge was. DOWN."
ST don't know
The telephone wires at the scene
of the kidnapping had been cut, &C
cording to the previous testimony of
witnesses.
Pickett Mason, of Gallon, said he
was in Bastrop on August "a.
did you see Watt Daniel, '"Tot"
Davenport, r. F. Richard and w.
c.. Andrews?"
| eyes, I was with them at the
baseball game and afterward we
sat on the ground at the court
house. 1 said to Watt Daniel and
Richard that Captain Skipwith was
walking around talking to the Ku
Kluxers. He would wa1p up to a
man and say something to him, then
| he would go to another man. 1
said to Richard: I guess they are
up to somthing' and Richard said
to me they don't want me, they
had me last week Captain Skip
! with, after approaching q. man would
say few words and then look at
u.s."
Setting On Steps
Roy Broadnax, of Gallon, who
testified to being in Bastrop on Au-
gust "a and as to having seen Watt
Daniel, w. c. Andrews, T. F. Rich
ard and Tot Davenport, was the
| next witness.
At saw Daniel and Richard sitting
| on the steps of the court house.
Captain Skipwith was talking in a
group of men nearby and I saw Cap
tain Skipwith point out Daniel and
| Andrews to the men. The men were
strangers to me. didn't think much
of it at first but after the kidnap-
| ing it looked mighty funny to me-"
w. H. Hearte, of Gallon, testt-
| fled that Jim Harp told him that he
| would kill any man who would test1-
| fly that he was seen to get out OF
a car with Jap Jones at Bonita on
the night of August "a.
Judge Odom asked the witness
whether his home statement had
been made since the witness had
started.
The witness said it was made
about the time the hearing began.
One witness testified at the fore
noon session today that he saw
Jones and Harp alight from an au-
tomobile at Bonita about 3 o'clock
the morning of August 25.
| The hearing today moved inter
mittently because of the absence of
witnesse. Several recesses were or
dered during the day and at 3
o'clock the hearing was adjourned
until tomorrow morning.
Brother Testifies
Clarence Teegerstrom, brother Of
Harold Teegerstrom, missing time
keeper of the Southern Carbon COM
pany at Spyker, who disappeared
| December 20, and for whom the
: state of Louisiana has been search
| ing in connection with its investi-
CATION into activities Of masked men
in Morehouse parish, took the stand
| this forenoon at the open hearing
| here.
do you know where your brother
| Harold is?" he was asked.
81 do not"
when did you last hear from
him?"
"I received a letter January TO-"
where is the 1etter?'
81 destroyed it,
Teegerstrom was given the let
ter by Dean Ashcraft, an employe
of the Southern Carbon company at
Spyker, who said superintendent s
l. Bennett had found it in the com
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