San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-21
IDENTIFY THREE
| AS MEMbERSOF
K|DNAP INC BAND
Testimony Is Likely to Put
Men on Trial for
Their Lives.
MASKS ARE LIFTED
Murder Car Containing
Biindfolded Victims
Is Described.

Bastrop, La, Jan. 20.-Nearing a
limax in its open probe into the muir
Ter of Watt Daniel and Thomas f..
Richards and reign of terror in More
louse parish created by hooded bands,
he states attorney tonight claimed
hey had lifted the mask from the faces
" at least three members of the band
which kidnapped the two men, together
with three 'others on August "a. Iden-
lty of two other men as members Of
he black hoods was also partly estab-
ished. 80.
Beginning Monday, when the open
rearing is to be resumed here, the
IDENTIFY of the other members of the
pand will be established by introduction
4 testimony by additional witnesses,
ccording to an announcement by At
orney General A. V. Coco, shortly be-
ore his departure late today or Baton
Rouge, where he will confer with Gov
rnor John NJ. Parker over the week
Ind.
The men identified by witnesses to
ate are:
E. n. Newt Gray, deacon of the
little Fellowship Mission Baptist
}hurch in the Thompson district of
he parish.
T. Jeff Burnett, former deputy sher-
q of the parish and an employe of
he Southern Carbon Company at Spy
l-< He was released today on bei,d
n account of illness. ~~
man named Smith, who formerly
rorked in blacksmith shop down near
be depot in Bastrop.
Two Partially Identified.
The two men partially identified:
Oliver Skipwith, youngest son of Capt.
X. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the
lorehouse parish branch of the Ku
Elux Khan, and Smith Stevenson, a
blacksmith. These men were identi-
led today by their former general ap-
earances" as occupants of the black
CODED bands automobiles which passed
through Bastrop following the holdup
q the outskirts of the village.
The Identification of these two men
as made by II. Il. Blankenship, car
enter, of BastrOp, who further declar-
y he recognized the truck used by the
and to transport Daniel and Richards
rom the scene of the holdup as belong
~ to Stevenson. The two men-blind-
blded and bound-were in the car when
le band passed his house. which is To-
ted only block from the courthouse,
3 testified. He identified the car, he
ated, by scratches and marks on il,
nd dag or so afterward he positively
lentified the ear in front of StevenSOn's
bop as the one used by the murder
hnd. The license on the car was No.
1857.
Woman Identifies Burnett.
In the little court room where wit
esses spoke the words which probably
i'll place these men on trial, perhaps
pr their lives. perfect quiet and order
as maintained. Friends of the accused
zen, however, were outspoken in de-
airing the men were innocent
Attorneys representing Gray and Bur-
1T refused TO allow them to comment
the case.
Mrs. i. ID. Carlisle, mother of three
ildren, today was positive in her iden-
fication of Burnett. She recognized
m, she said, when he aided her in dis
.sagling her buggy horses from
lien telephone wire at the scene of
e holdup when she, along with a score
more of other parties, were held up
bile the black hoods searched yehicl, !
r the men they sought.
Mrs. Carlisle also identified a man
bmed "Smith" who used to work in
e blacksmith shop near the depot here
another member of the mob. The
hereabouts of Smith" was unknown
night.