The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-06
FIVE TEXAS BUSINESS MEN ARE INDICTED ON
 WAR FRAUDS CHARGES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Five busi ness men at Fl Paso, Tex. are under stood to have been indicted by federal grand jury there on various charges growing out of alleged frau dulent sale of government property at Fort Bliss.
 Captain c. F. Black, now serving a term at Leayenworth, is named as joint defendant in three of the in dictments, which resulted from an in vestigation by the federal govern ment into the disposition of surplus supplies al Fort Bliss.
 gurated today was undertaken, as "klan murders"
 J. L. Daniel. father of Watt Daniel. made the most positive Identification. Fondling the battered case of a wrist watch, the aged man declared it a keepsake given to his boy" when he went to war
 The watch with bits of clothing was removed from one of the bodies it was testified, when they were taken from Lake LaFourche.
 Tt was my watch,'' MT. Daniel said. 'It has my name engraved on it. When Watt went to war, I gave it to him. told him some day this may identify you but never dreamed that it would be under such circumstances"
 He also identified a belt, collar band of shirt and fragments Of trousers found on the body.
 Identifies Clothing.
 J. L. McIlwain, another witness, identified fragments of the trousers as corresponding with material used in clothing sold by him to Daniel and also a small piece of cloth taken from the body declared to be that of Richards as corresponding With clothing he had sold to him.
 Prior to the calling of the elder Daniel and McIlwain to the stand, J. c. Kettles, fisherman, told of finding the bodies floating on the surface of the lake and T. Semmes Walmsley, assistant to the state att torney general. and A. E. Farland. department of Justice agent, had identified the clothing and trinkets as those removed from the bodies.
 Inauguration of the hearing ex- pected to bring a climax to the in vestigation under way for several months by federal investigators and state agents, was with an atmos- phere of tenseness but without un> toward incident.
 MaruS ARalDEt interference.
 Judge Fred l.. Odom, before whom the investigation is being held, in a statement from the bench at the out set, warned against an yattempt to interfere with the orderly proce- dure of the hearing, and as a precau- tionary measure, sherifrs deputies were posted at each entrance to the court room to search spectators for firearms as they entered. This pro- cedure was orderly followed at every session of the court.
 Meanwhile three companies of state troops sent here to act in con- junction with civil authorities were held in camp to respond to any call for assistance.
 Kettles was the first witness called when the introduction of testimony was begun at the afternoon session of court.
 About sunrise on the morning of December 22, I was setting out my lines when my attention was called to a break in the bank line of the lake, at the Eason ferry landing and I learned of an explosion ot dynamite the preceding night Kettles said.
 Soon after I discovered the bodies of Daniels and Richards floating in the water"
 Identifies Victims
 Kettles declared he was acquainted with both men and had attended a barbecue with them at Bastrop immediately preceding their kid naping August 2, last.
 T knew it was Daniels by his clothing" Kettles testified, "and ] identified Richards by the form of his body"
 Kettles also told of the finding of hack saw and a bunch of Keys