Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-01-20
STATE HAS NAMES OF FORTY REPUTED
MEMBERS OF MER ROUGE MURDER AND
TORTURE BAND AND MAY FIND CRUSHER
Crushing MACHINE Believed Found at Bottom of Lake
ade OF Boards Joined Together and Fitted
With Iron Teeth
ORE ARRESTS EXPECTED IN A FEW DAYS

*belief that he had been kidnapped and
| probably injured or detained. Nothing
has since been heard from the father
and mother.
TeegestrOm Is reported to have been
seen in Monroe yesterday.
Amplifying their testimony at the
hearing yesterday, DR.. Duval and DR..
Lanford said that the autopsy showed
that the removal of some of Danie''s
organs had been made by a person
skilled in the use Of the surgeons
knife.
The current issue Of Sergeant Dial.
toms Weekly. published at winfield
La. and the upholder of the khan in
this section, arrived in Bastrop this
morning its flaring headlines denounc
ing the State ofncials and others con.
cerned in the investigation of the Mer
Rouge outrage. Attorney General Coco
Is bitterly assailed and his alleged Ma
sonic record, purporting to be taken
from the proceedings of the grand
lodge. printed.
The article asserts that Judge CorO
was initiated. passed and raised in the
Masonic Order; that in 1901 he was
Worshipful Master aid that in 1906 he
was Identified. The article continues:
ut is now generally known that inc
is a Catholic but before Rome again re
cefved him to her bosom, he was re
quired to go into the Catholic Church
and denounce and renounce Masonry,
and beg that the ban of eXcommunica
ton be lifted.
"Is his record SIGH that he can inves
tigate and prosecute Masons, and Prot
estants Of Morehouse Parish and State
of Louisiana? Shall he decide the use
of sword and bayonet and machine
guns in Protestants country? and
talk of the horrors OF the inquisition?"
Governor Parker is denounced the
prosecution is declared to he "bunk
end DR.. McKoin is defended for his ee
forts to enforce the moral code in Mel
Rouge.
But what are we trying to bring OFT
in this article for the edification Of
Of all" says this article Including
old Adolph Coco and John M. Parker,
is that when a mans home and his
children and his neighbors are outrae
ed and trampled under foot, so tn
speak. and insulted day after day, and
assassination is attempted on the very
champion of right, law and order, and
the constituted authorities are help
less. something else is liable to happen
And it will happen, just the same aft
er the Mer Rouge affair is forgotten"
POPE AND CATHOLICS ATTACKED
Another article assails the Pope ard
the Catholic Church in America and as
serts that the Catholics have always
been in politics.
On the same page is commuuica'
ton, with the name OF ]. A.Bayett, at
fixed, attacking Governor Parker. All
excerpt from this communication
says:
Due to your (the Governor's) recent
actions in the Mer Rouge affair, 1t Is
quite evident that you have become an
ally to Romanism, bootlegging and Ne
gro concubinage. Why did you not go
to the rescue Of DR.. McKoin when this
same bunch of law breakers sought to
murder him? He was of unquestion-
able character and was trying to sup
press lawlessness in his home town Of
Mer Rouge"
Dalton's leading article on his first
page virtually condones the killing OF
Daniel and Richards. Speaking Of the
masked band, it says: they did tue
best they knew how to do" and thnn
continues:
at was either to surrender to the
cut-throats and lawless element or
take strenuous steps to clean house.
Richards was first captured and taken
out and questioned few nights be-
fore kidnapping. Then the five men
were captured and taken out to be
death with. The men who handled
them were evidently masked and acted
secretly, just as was the would-be assas
sins who attempted to murder DR.. Nc
Koin. They were attending to seri-
Gus matter in the name OF the law and
order, and in the name of Christianity
and the sanctity of the home, and they
used the same methods-fed the crooks
of the same spoon that they were
guilty Of using in their treatment OF
| the law-abiding people-treated them
rough.
GAS to the members Of the Vigilance
Committee being members Of the khan.
| that is just pack of bunk. Matched up
by the enemies of the khan. No PROOF
has been offered that any Of them were
klansmen. and IL such should be forth
! coming it would be no more sign1fi-
cant than il it were shown that some
of them were members of the Baptist
or Methodist Church. One thing Is sure
the khan did not officially order the kid
Il ronnfn0U