Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-01

affidavit and several others that
dealt with alleged unrest in other
states, holding that this unrest, even
if it existed, was not in any way
connected with the question as to
whether a receiver should be APP
| pointed for the order.
| Tie 500, 900 breach of promis suit
filed in Fulton superior court several
| weeks ago against E. Y. Clarke by
Miss Helen K. Steele was framed in
an effort to discredit Clarke and pre-.
vent him from reassuming leadership
of the Ku Klux Klan," according to
an affidavit purporting to have been
made by Miss Steele, read Monday
before Judge HUMPHREYS.
| The affidavit, read by Attorney
w. S. Coburn, of counsel for the Rit,
tenhouse faction, told of various
meetings and telephone converse
tons between Miss Steele and Tom
Akers, former chief of the intelli-
gence department Of the khan, now
| travelling representative of the
khan, in which it is alleged the
breach Of promise suit was planned.
Was to be Paid
1t declared she Miss Steele) was
/ to receive money from Akers for
her efforts against Clarke and that
Akers was to "take care Of her and
send her to Norfolk" after the suit
actually was filed.
According to the affidavit, most
of the telephone conversations were
from the office of Captain Coburn
and were listened to and reported in
shorthand on three extension tele-
| phones.
! The affidavit did not recount the
actual filing of the suit, telling sim
ply of the circumstances leading UP
to it and, according to Captain Co
burn was made by Miss Steels some
| time before the action against Clarke
actually was brought.
A second affidavit by Miss Steele
| told of several occasions on which
she alleged she received money from
| Akers, and set forth that Alers told
| her the Texas case against Clarke
had fallen through and we will have
| to build another case" against him
| before September 1, or 1T will not
be worth the paper it is printed on
| The girl later told Akers that the
suit would be filed, her affidavit
says, and he informed her that he
could not do anything for her" I'M
til it was actually filed. She was
! then to go to Norfolk with girl
| friend. the affidavit says.
! KHAN TESTIMONY STIRS
GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA
BATON ROUGE, La, Oct. 30.
1.-The Associated Press wires from
Atlanta only Confirm information we
| had as TO the presence of a large
number of Khan Investigators doing
h cir utmost to balk justice" Gov
ernor John NJ. Parker said today, in
commenting on the deposition Of S.
! N. Littlejohn, offered in Atlanta in
| connection with the Rittenhouse re-
| ownership suit against the Ku I<luX
! Khan. and this was from an organ
ization which has the audacity to
claim itself 100 per cent American
and to insist on the enforcement of
the law. Further comment is un-
! necessary"
ADMITS REPRESENTING KHAN
AT MER ROUGE HEARING
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 800. D.
Jackson, federal prohibition enforce
ment director for Louisiana, today
admitted he had been employed by
the Ku Klux Klan early this year to
investigate the so-called Mer Rouge
case, as stated in a deposition read
today in Atlanta in the suit of F. NJ.
Rittenhouse and others for re-
ownership for the khan. Jackson, at
that time, operated a detective agen-
cy here.
M. Mann, also Of New Orleans,
named in the deposition as having
participated in the investigation for
the khan, was one of Jackson's en-
ploEea.