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


that raisins are not low one day
'I did not"
"Now, didn't you go out there for
/ the purpose of talking with those
mem"
! Il did not. I was on my Why to
| Mer Rouge and was held up
Now, on the night Of august "a
YOU said you Went home when you
closed up your 5usiness?'
Il did"
Did you stay there?"
! Il did"
Ran Out BOotIeggers
! Didn't you see Sidney White at
a dance and tell him three of the
five kidnapped that afternoon had
been whipped and released, hut you
I did not know where the others
were?"
81 did not see Sidney White"
! Attorney General Coco began
grilling the witness at this juncture
'Now, you say you are a charter
member of the Morehouse Ku klux
Khan; please tell me some of the
SOOu lUluSS llle Mali mas uOLIC SAi1SS
it's organization"
"Have run several bootleggers
out"
| Negroes or white?"
| Both"
"Where did you run them TOP
II don't know"
"Do you know of any flOgging?'
'I only heard they kidnapped five
men."
"Tna KAN wants to clean up the
bad elements?"
Yes"
"On the occasion you were. held
lup when they had Neelis in then
| ppssessit n, why did you rCturn &c
3astrop?"
They told. me to-
"As an American, isn't it true
that you knew where Richard was
and you went to the masked banG
trop?"
81 did not"
"They followed you?"
"Yes."
And went to the garage and
seized Richard?"
Yes
SeIZed IN DayHSnC
Fright in the open daylight, bust
: ness going on, people on the street
and a band of hooded men dash VI
to a garage and seize a man. Didn'
tht create unusual commodore"
The people were excited, al
|. right"
, 'You say the khan ran bootlegger:
I out of the parish; why didn't they
bring these bootleggers into court?'
& don't know"
] 1.-The khan had established high
err government, had they not?"
} Il don't know"
You remember the conversation
/ between yoursel fand Neelis?"
II do"
But, you don't know anythin:
that has been transacted in the iila1
lodgeroom?"
Il do not"
"What oath is superior thu
one you took an hour or SO ago O.
, the khan OATH"
THE oath l am now under
Jeff Burnett, now under arrest OF
a charge of murder in connection
with the kidnapping and staying 0
:. Daniel and Richard, was named
Wednesday by Harry j. Neelis, all
tOmObile man of BastrOp, as one o
: two unmasked men who held hin
, up on ID road near Bastrop, Au
gust II or IS Iast-the sam
: day Richard is said to have beel
first questioned by a hooded band a.
to an alleged attack on DR.. B. NJ
McKoin, former mayor of Me
Rouge.
Mrs. Richard, widow of the slail
man, who preceded Neelis on tn
witness stand told of Richard ben3
taken into the woods by a band o
hooded men who their three-year-o
child, who was with her father a
the time, described as "KluXes.
Richard later returned to their home
Mrs. Richard said, told her of tn
occurrence but treated it as a joke.
The kidnapping of Richard ali
Daniel from which they did not re
turn occurred a week later.
Neelis also testified that Richard
on the day following the first kit
mapping told him he had recognize
five or six of the kidnapers.
"Who were they?" Neelis wa
asked.
81 don't want to call their name:
have forgotten them" he said.
who were they?" he was aske
again.
Captain Sllipwith, Jim Tisdale, {
Monroe; A. G. Campbell, of JOne
and DR.. McKoin" Neelis answered
Recognized Two
II was on my way to Mer Roue
in a truck. being driven by a negro.
Neelis said, referring to the occu
renee on August II or IS, when
was held up on the road by seve
hooded men. They had shotguns al
pistols. [ was ordered out of Ii
truck. They told us to go on ahea
and not to say anything about thu
1 went on but near Mer Rouge I VIZ
: held up by two Unmasked men. The
We're Jeff Burnett and Mr.. Roger
I They told me to turn around and 6
back to where we were first held u
After reaching there we stayed abol
so minutes. We were joined by
masked man. He said, DO you kno
= me?' I said, NO
; II was supposed to walk back
:. Bastrop, but l hoped a car goir
,, toward BastrOp and rode into tow
when Burnett and Rogers he
/. me up, [ talked with them lo1
/ enough to know what they were a
u er, 1t was Richard. I asked Burne
= who they were after. He said
couldn't tell me that, but 1 said if
e wanted Richard he need not reso
- to any of these measures"
Warned Richard
q Il beat the masked man into Is;
, trop. First thing I did was ito {