The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
KLANPLANS PROBE
MER ROUGE DEATHS
Will Send Own Agents Into
Morehouse Parish
WILL START SOON
Members Found Connected With
Kidnapping or Staying Are
Outlawed From Order.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]


New Orleans, La, December 90
The Louisiana organization of the
Ku Klux Khan will send it's own
agents into Morehouse parish to in
vestigate the kidnapping and killing
of Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich
ards last August, according to an
announcement today by high state
official of the khan. This action,
he said, was decided on at a con-
ference here yesterday of heads of
the state organization.
II was stated that the inVestiga-
ton probably will be started within
the next forty eight hours.
The khan official stated If 1t
should develop. that any individual
members of the khan in Morehouse
parish had anything to do with the
kidnapping and murders of Daniels
and Richards. they would be out
lawed and the khan would assist in
obtaining their CONVICTIONS
Deputy After Or. Mckoin
Baltimore, Md, December 50.
Special Deputy Sheriff Calhoun of
Morehouse parish, Louisiana, who
has with him a requisitiou> on the
governor of this state for the re-
turn to Louisiana OF DR.. B. NJ. Nc
Koin, is expected to arrive here to-
morrow. Owing to the houcay Mon
day, it is believed Governor Richie
will not act on the case until Tues
day.
McKoin was arrested here last
Tuesday for the murder of Watt
Daniels and Thomas Richards, vic
tins of hooded mob at Mer Rouge
last summer.
kilograms from his wife and his
father and from several influential
friends in Northern Louisiana and
Southern Arkansas, reached DR..
McKoin yesterday at the city jail,
cheering him greatly. His rela
uves expressed the utmost conf
dence in his final vindicato. Mrs.
McKoin who had been reported as
advising her husband TO return to
Louisiana, has not made any sug-
gestion, DR.. McKoin said, and her
telegram yesterday advanced no
such idea. His father, however,
against eXtradition and come home.
Marking Time Another Day
Bastrop, La, December 30.-An-
other day of marking time while
awaiting the return of federal and
state Investigators who have been
comforting with state officials today
served to increase the air of ex-
pectancy in Morehouse parish, the
scene of an inquiry, which it was
declared will prove sensational ex-
pose of masked band operations.
The investigators were expected to
return here within the next forty
eight hours. ..
Officials would not predict today
what further arrests would be made
in addition to the detention here of
J. T. Burnett, former deputy sheriff,
and employe of a local carbon plant,
and of DR.. B. NJ McKoin. former
mayor of Mer Rouge, in Baltimore,
in advance of the open hearing. TO
be conducted here next week by
Attorney General Coco before Judge
Fred L. O6om. Positive denial was
made at the office of the parish
sheriff and county court clerk, of
reports that additional affidavits or
warrants had been issued.
Deputy Sheriff Calhoun of More
house parish and Captain of Detec
tives James P. Glynn of the New
Orleans police department. were on
their way today to Baltimore to
bring back to Louisiana Dr. McKoin,
held there on a charge of murder in
connection with the KIDNAPPING and
killing of Watt Daniels and Thomas
Richards in the event his extradi
ton is granted. ... ....