Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-13

rectified at once or we Will sWoOp
down upon your town and wipe out
the organization that is responsible
for these conditions and which arc
pleased to call themselves the anti
ku KluX Khan.
1--WE know every one of the men
who formulated and attempted IL
execute the plot TO assassinatc DE-
McKoin. Two of them have passed
into obscurity and the balance wiz
soon follow, unless they read be
tween the lines and leave your COM
munity while leaving is good.
The letter was signed "RegulG
tors
Mayor Given Warning
The other letter. undated, read:
"To the Honorable Mayor of Mef
Rouge.
Dear Sir: We are reliably in
formed there is in YOUR town a
bunch of disreputable characters
who call themselves the anti-Ku
KluX Khan, who openly violate the
laws by making whisky. and
who are making a practice of writ
ing some of the best citizens of your
parish obscene, insulting and threat
ening letters and who actually at
tempted to assassinate one of your
leading citizens and physicians re
Gently, forcing him to leave the com
munitv.
This is to notify you as mayor OF
Mer Rouge that we will give you
ample time to clean up this lawless
condition of affairs and if you fail
to do so. we will bring a thousand
men down there and do the job fol
you right,
THE names of the men who have
sat at the round table and planned
and submitted the planning of the
assassination of DR.. McKoin are
known ito us; we have had able men
t. get all the data up. so now we
know all they have SAID and done
and we will attend to them in due
time
This letter was signed 900 Pei
Cent Americans.
when did you last see Ed Ivy?"
Last Friday in Bastrop,"
1.-The night they said they We're
going to give the boys the whipping
did they have thei rwhipping strop
aIong?"
Yes, sir"
YelIy Harp Called
Mr.. Dade was excused and Kelly
Harp was called. He admitted he
is>a former member of the khan and
participated in the hOld-up of Daniel,
Neelis and Andrews near Stampley,
on the Gallon road.
"You were with the party?"
Yes"
"Who else was tbere?"
~ don't believe l should he OBJ
lgated to tell that, [ was a klans-
man then under OATH
"You heard Mr. Dade testify?"
Eyes"
"Was his testimony correct?"
81 am not in a position to say,
because what he said happened was
when [ was a member of the khan
and under oath of that order"
Did they favor whipping the
boys?'
''The majority of them did"
"Why didn't they whip them?'
"Dade and myself and others did
not favor it"
was Captain Skipworth there?"
az positively refuse to answer"
"Is George Sims a klansman?'
Eyes"
us, Mr.. Andrews a I1lansman?"
eyes"
who named you as committee
to run Miss Addie May Hamilton out
of the country?'
II can't say"
"Why did you refuse
81 didn't want to do it."
What next occurred?"
THE lob was pulled that night.
Another Black Mask
what did the party who asked
YOU to ask the women to leave the
country say when you refused L
join them?"
He said he would take the matter
up with the proper authorities q
the khan"
con the Stampley raid how were
you dressed?"
Il wore a black mask"
''Who furnished YOU with this
regalia?"
"Members of the khan"
"You were a member of the klar
at that time as were the OthersY
Yes, sir"
! Did YOU take an obligation As
klansman not to reveal anything?'
Yes, sir [ know L did"
why did you quit the klan?"
Because [ don't believe in the
mask. 1t leads to disorders. The
/ klan's constitution is all right, but
its operations are all wrong"
! w. r. Noteworthy followed Hara
ON the stand. He said he was a
brother of J. II. Noteworthy
"When did you last talk with Cap
, tain SkipWith?"