Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-13


Klux Khan in Macon, the Khan was
| directly connected with the Whip
pings for the first time.
Sitting in Sheriff's Office
Durkee, at the time of his arrest,
was sitting in the office of Sheriff
j. Il. Hicks. Jr., where he had speri
much of his time since the effort
at cleaning up the situation Ill
Bibb county was started. He YVES
released under $4,000 bond on two
charges of rioting and assault and
battery.
The charges on which the al
legged floggers will be tried are mis-
demeanOrs under the Georgia law
and for this reason are to be triei
in city court. In each case the de-
PENDANT is subject, on convictions,
to one year in the changing, SIX
months in jail. $1,000 fine, either
one or all.
Solicitor Roy w. Moore, of the
city court, who is charged with the
prosecution of the cases, last night.
in commenting on the arrest OF
Durkee, said this was the big ar
rest" of the roundup of floggers.
He declined to say whether any
other arrests would be made at this
time. Durkee has office space with
DR.. YarbrouGh.
Mills FlOgging Expose
Charges that a personal report on
the second flogging of r. F. Mills,
who was whipped on January 10 and
November 4, 1922, was made to i'm
perial headquarters of the Ku KluX
Khan by representative of the Ma
con khan, are made in a statement
by Rhodes McPhail, said formerly to
have been connected with the khan
as a publicity writer, which were
published by the Macon Telegraph
this morning. 1t also is charged in
the statement that letters written by
Mills to Governor Hardwick, asking
for protection, never reached the
governor.
Mr.. lcPhail, in the statement, is
quoted as charging tn M. o. Dun
ming, khan chief of staff for t. {
realm of Georgia, who is here with
two khan detectives openly working
with county officials in running down
the floggers, is in Macon merely IS
chief spokesman for II. w. Evans,
present imperial wizard of thu khan"
and to ''save the klan's hide"
81 don't know anything about sew
eral Of the more recent Il ,ggings at
Macon but [ do know that r. F.
Mills deserves every assistance for
obtaining justice that the courts can
possibly give him." the article
quotes Mr.. McPhail os saying. His
care was one of the most attrocious
I ever heard Of
mills was logged for the Sc nd
time by the khan one night in No
vember, 1922. The next morning a
representative of the Macon khan
came to Atlanta to report the Incl
dent to headquarters. He had evil
IDENTIFY handled the matter pretty
well, because the usua, denial of re.
sponsibility or knowledge of the :
fair was issued and the l re- d
for apprehension-o tie oggers was
offered.
Charges Mail InterceptiOn
at seemed that Mills life had
been made so miserable since his
first floggi that he ld his "
yer write Governor T~ardwick an APP
peal for protection. = few days
later a stranger calleC G IN, sad
he was from the Sove. IS o.1ce
and assured him ne ould be pro-
tected. II was a night or two after
this that Mills was given the second
flogging. He then communicated with
Governor Hardwick = telephone
and was told by the CHIEF eXec1 -
that he had never heard of his case
until that moment and that no rep.
resentative from h office had been
sent to see hinl.A.
Mr.. McPhail, In his staten It,
charges that the letter disappeared
before it reached the state house
mail sack.
MY informant" says the state
ment," at this juncture highly COM
mended two mail distributing Gle
and one inspector for their faith
fulness.'
The article then Cos on to state
that Mills was flogged after DR.. w.
H. Evans became imperial wizard of
the Eu KluX Khan and charges that.
DR.. Evans achieved fame among
Texas floggers when he was heard
of the Dallas khan"
Mr.. McPhail says he is not now
connected with the Ku KluX Khan.
Mr.. Dunning, asked about the Nc
Phail charges, branded them as
false and asserted that McPhail was
''sore about being fired" He de-
clared the charges were made mere
ly to muddy the water"
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