Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-11

/ Il saw them bl1ndfold1ng watt.
Gle was your uncle?"
Yes He was sitting on the side
of the road about eight feet away
from me-"
How many mere were blindfold-
ing him?'
Three. They all had on hoods"
"How many others did you see
with hoods on?"
About fifteen or twenty"
did you see anyone else being
blindfolded or who had already been
blindfolded?"
Yes, sir; w. C. Andrews"
! Did you make any outcry?"
Yes, sir. [ cried out to Watt. I
did not see my grandfather"
E. w. Andrews, brother of w. G.
I Andrews. on eof the flogged men,
witnessed the hold-up following the
celebration, he testified.
He said he had been q "kluxer"
| but was not one now. He said he
went to three or four meetings and
quit because he did not like the way
| they were doing. In answer to
question he said he had not seen
'the book" and therefore was not &C
| quointed with the people of the Or
| ganization.
He said the khan functioned
through orders issued by Captain
| Skipwith and the vigilance commit
| tee scattered circulars.
| DR.. McKoin ordered him and sew
eral others to go to Addie May Ham
| ilton's house but he said, he, George
Sims and Kelly Harp refused to go.
! He said he believed they were sup
posed to take the girl out OF the
| state.
Appealed To MckOin
| Daniel was recalled to the stand
| at the opening of the hearing to-
| day. The witness declared he went
to DR.. McKoin and appealed to him
as a fellow Mason" to stop what
! he believed was khan action.
CDR. McKoin said to me that he
would do all that he could, but he
was not a klansman," declared the
witness.
Following this talk, I received
notices written on typewriter to
change up They were unsigned
and written on yellow paper"
'"Now did anything else occur that
led you to believe the khan was &C
| tive in the community"
Yes, prior to an attempt on Dr.
McKoin's life, there was an effort to
| kidnap Addie May Hamilton"
Where were you the night DR..
McKoin's ear was shot into?"
81 was home"
Where was Waltz"
He was at my house"
where was Tom Richards?"
Gle was there also, we were all
playing cards, poker"
| WAS it an open poker game, it
being openly understood that the
boys could always find a game at
your house at night?"
THAT'S right most any time"
"You are sure you did not leave
your house that night?'
Eyes, on that night we played al
most all night"
Didn't Play Sleuth
what did you first hear you were
suspected of shooting at DR.. Nc
Koin?"
mot until I was held up on the
Bastrop road"
! did you make any inquiry or try
to ferret out who shot at McKoin?'
mo; always had a hard time man
aging my own business, without
meddling into others affairs"
Anything said about DR.. McKoin
during gamer"
mot that remember"
what took place during the con-
versation between you and DR.. Nc.
koin?'
"Wen, I knew McKoin was a re-
former and he should know about
the notes; we talked quite a long
time"
THAT was before he was shot at?"
about two Or three weeks
Since the disappearance of your
son have you ever received any
\ anonymous letters?'
mot directly, but Joe Davenport
told me he had received word over
phone that Campbell, Whipple and
his two bodyguards would have to
get away from there or they would
be killed"
Campbell and Whipple are citizens
Of Mer Rouge.
who did Davenport say told
him."
Captain Shipwith."
"When did Davenport tell YOU
Fthat?"
"It was after the Kidnapping, after
I hald told my friends I believed my
son had been murdered
How about the kidnapping, where
did they take place. what dill ection?"
1--WE were on the Bastrop- Mon
roe road"
Recognized No One
During the period you were being
held, did you hear your son, Watt.
speak,"
81 did not"
You did not recognize any onn?"
mo, if I did ] would have gcns
to the man and faced him."
DIR. F. J. Wiley, a Mer Rouge PLY.
sician, testified as to treating w. c.,
Andrews on the night of August "a.
He looked like he had been severe
ly whipped. [ asked no questions.
Andrews had several severe bruises
on his back, but there We're no LAGER
atoms"
Andrews was one of the men
logged by what was described as a
''black-hooded" band at the same
time Daniel and Richards were kid
mapped.
M. +. Holloway, fisherman who
was at Lake Lafouche shortly after
the mutilated bodies of Daniel and
Richards were found, was called.
Both bodies were floating face
down." he said. ..
There was some galvanized tele-
phone wires around both bodies.
| went home and brought my wife to
see the bodies. She didn't see them,
because they had the place all roped
off"
Young Woman Guarded
Members of the party of men kid
mapped and taken into the woods and
tlogged declared their captors ques-
ton them as to the alleged attempt
to assassinate Mckoin.