The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-30
CHARGES R|OT N
 BROOKLYN COUET INT |MIDATED kLAN
Fake Demonstration Staged at Expense of Order, Declares Etheridge-- Chicago Kan
 Causes Stir

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Paul Etheridge, imperial counsel of the Ku Klux Klan, today charged in statement that attendants in the Gates Avenue cour in Brooklyn had saged a fake riot outside the cell of eight alleged klansmen arrested Thursday night, in order to intimi- date them.
 Frank Burke. a court attendant and other officials, flatly denied the charges of MT. Etheridge, who as- serted that members of the order were being persecuted in New York city. and that Magistrate Dale had no right to oenounce the ,klan at the arraignment of the prisoners on charges of having blackjacls and whisky In the automobile in which they were arrested.
 Describing the riot alleged to have been faked, Mir. Etheridge said:
 "The treatment of the men from the time they were locked in their cells in police headquarters, was not that which Is ordinarily accorded convicted criminals.
 GhnFEes Intimidation
 "The attendants at the Gates Ave nue court endeavored to scare or in timidate the men by staging fake riot outside their cell. throwing bottles and cans down the corridor in front of the cell, one attendant even faking a telephone call to police headquarters for reserves in order to quell a mob of 2,0oo people out side the court who areNtrying to get at these Ku Kluxers.'s Another at tendant in negro dialect shouting Let me get at these Ku kluxers; I'll tear them to pieces."
 The action of Magistrate Dale is regarded by the klan as one of the most astonishing evidence of official bias and prejudice against the or ganiZation that has ever come to it's notice. When the eight men were first arraigned the actual charges against them, the charges constitut- ing only misdemeanors, were not the subject of the magistrates speech, for Judge Dale instead of delivering any opinion concerning the charges themselves, launched into vehement denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan. simply because 1t was inferred that the eight men had earlier in the eve ming attended kian meeting"
 SLEEPING OVER VOLCANO
 CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Declarations that Alderman Robert Mulcahy, chairman of the special council com mittee Investigating the connection of city employees with the Ku klux Klan, was trying to avoid the klan issue, and that the people of Chi cago .'are sleeping over volcano" were made today by Hiram Wesley Evans, imperial wizard of the klan. He declared that Alderman Mulcahy was laying emphasis on the claim that Fireman William Green denied he was a member of the klan at one time and later asked a hearing on the ground that he was klansman when the only issue was whether Green was sa, klansman,,
 Green did resign from the klan and so was not member but was asked by the klan to recall the resignation so the klan issue could be threshed out, MT. Evans said
 Wants Proof
 He said he wanted Mulcahy to come out on the first charge against Green, that of being a klansman and to prove that the oath Green took as klansman was unAmerican and dis qualified him from public service.
 The klan does not want to excite race prejudice but to eradicate it." he continued, but Chicago has racial situation which the citizens of Chi cago must solve, not the klan. The people of Chicago are sleeping over volcano now"
 In regard to his last statement he said recent investigations would in- dicate what he meant.