The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-27

There was a desultory shot or two, the combatants confining themselves to bottles, bricks and stones.
 Recover Fallen Flag.
 county detective made his way to the front and recovered the flag and the fight swept by him. Half a block farther on, Abbott a mine machinist, was shot, and klansmen quickly car ried him into a physicians office nearby. He died on the operating table.
 Meantime a party of klansmen had swept around the block through side streets and engaged the crowd further in towards the business cen ter. Four of their number were car wounds were attended, and they were then hurried away by their friends. Many similar instances were reported to the authorities.
 The greater number of klansmen had remained in the road near the street beyond. County officers plead ed with them to go back to the hill and in the course of half an hour the order was given and they marched away. Soon they were in their automobiles homeward bound and before daybreal the hill was de- serted, while the crowds in the streets gradually melted away.
 County officers patrolled Carnegie all of Sunday, but the streets were almost deserted until late in the aft ernoon when 1t was seen that man again were gathering on the hill. Then little knots of citizens ap- peared, but there was no disorder. Statement To The People.
 Dr, Evans characterized his state ment, issued tonight, as "an official fuf aV,f l,a Ia ,Ft . T,-Fk States concerning the murder of Klansman Abbott during a riot when parading klansmen were attacked by residents of Carnegie. Pa. Saturday night" The statement follows:
 The action of the mob of Carnegie residents senses of anarchy. The klansmen of western Pennsylvania, gathering on hillside overlooking Carnegie early in the evening, and following the initiation of 1000 into the order paraded in the direction of the town. They were halted at a bridge separating Glendale from Carnegie by trucks and other ve- hicles barring the road. Missiles of every description were thrown at the klansmen-fence paiings, bricks, stones, coal-in fact, every object that could possibly maim the law abiding klansmen were hurled at them.
 "In an effort to prevent their con stitutional right of peaceable assem- bly, being abridged by an element of cltizenry absolutely dangerous to the safety and cause of freedom. the klansmen moved forward a square. where the attacking forces made ready for their coming with a bull wark of paving stones and bricks. A shower of these missiles fell on the klansmen, the civilians began firing from a dark side street and hlansman Abbott fell mortally wounded. The klansmen, in compli- ance with a request of assembled deputy sheriffs, went back to the meeting place on the hillside, then returned to their homes Klansman Abbott was killed because he exer- cised his constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceable assembly, freq speech and free movement over the highways of our country. We are determined that this and all other parts of our great land shall be made safe for native born Amer jeans and that every right given us in the constitution, made by our fore- fathers, shall be preserved to us and 10 our posterity.'
 Dr. Evans also stated thqt the klap would pay 2 reward of S2. Zoo for tn arrest and conviction of thE murderer or murderers of KlansmaA Abbott.
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