The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-10
SAYS MOREHOUSE
 KHAN CONDUCTED MANY FLOGG|NCS
Black Hooded Men Sought to InfIict Their Will Upon Citi- zens of Parish, Norse-
 worthy Claims
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| kidnapped and your conversation
 with Mott as to practically seeing
 the forms of two men carted toward
 La Fourche why did you not report
 the matter to the authorities" he
 asked of White.
 T don't know-I didn't think about it. he replied.
 House Guarded A development of today other than the testimony at the open court hearing was an announcement that an anonymous telephone message had been received warning federal 1 investigators conducting an Inquiry in conjunction with state adjutants that plot was forming to kidnap Addie May Hamilton, a young wom- an said to have been forced to leave Warehouse Parish by men described as klansmen and now at her home near Mer Rouge waiting to be called as a witness in the present hearing.
 A soldier guard was placed at the Hamilton home when intimation of the plotted Kidnapping was received but the troopers were removed today under orders of AdJutant General L. A. Tcmos of the state national guard civilian guards being substituted General Toombs in a formal state ment explained that authority for the posting of the soldiers had not been authorized.
 General Toombs has taken the po sition that the task of policing the parish rested with the civil authe ri- ties and that the soldiers could not act in that capacity under present conditions.
 Woman to Re Called
 The young woman, 1t was an-
 nounce tonight, will be called as the first witness tomorrow. Norseworthy
 was called to the witnesx stand
 after J. l.. Daniel, father of Watt, and himself a victim of the kidnap- CTS, completed his testimony begun Saturday. Daniel told of notices being left at his gate ordering him to change up" and of information
 he had received that the word had been passed, credited by Daniels in formapt to Captain Skipwith, that four Mer Rouge men would have to get away of they would be kil1ed.'
 Noteworthy, ponderous man of
 middle age, farmer, began his re-
 cital at the morning session of court
 and continued for an hour of the afternoon. He declared himself one
 of the charter members of the More house klan.
 After the klan became active" he was asked by the attorney general. did not a reign of terror prevail in l Morehouse parish?" 1 Yes, l should say so," Norse- l worthy replied. As matter of fact 1 the local government was supplanted ! by super government. Yes sir, it 1 caused all kinds of trouble" Men Were Whipped With that introduction, Norse- :, worthy launched into a detailed ac- count of alleged operations of the parish klan organization. Some of the things he charged were ordering
 men to be whipped within an inch of
 their lives and deported from the state.
 Wasn't the parish being con- trolled by super government? was
 one of the questions put to Morse worthy.
 It wasn't an invisible government
 but it certainly was change in gov ernment,' he said. Who was the leader of the klan the grand cyclops or whatever they called him?" MT. Coco asked.
 Captain skipwith. We called him the president"
 He was king of this parish, his word was final was it not?" asked the states attorney.
 Yes sir, 1t was final" was the answer.
 Has this condition gotten to the
 point of terrorism and chaos?" 'It has"
 Had such prevailed before this advent of the klan?"
 "It certainly had not" "On one occasion," the witness con-
 tinued, "a woman came to me and
 asked me to escort her home, she was afraid, because of the klan's activ- ities.1
 Banished Woman
 How do you know Dr. McKoin, Higginbotham and others you mem toned this morning participated in
 the punishment of Addie May Ham, ilton?"
 MT. Kirkpatrick told me" Was she banished forever?"
 ITO return she would have to get permission from Captain Skipwith however this was just common talk"
 Do you remember meeting of l the vigilante committee to consider l the deportation of certain citizens of
 Mer Rouge?"
 Yes sir.
 Some of those present were not 1 klansmen; we'll speak of them as 1 not klansmen, but not anti-klans-
 men, the attorney general asked. That's right"
 You see, about that time they
 were guarding the Bastrop court
 house because some threats had been l made about Mer Rouge staging q l raid RlStrnn ad q
 delegate to meeting to arrange a
 sort of an armistice, get together to l bring peace in the parish.' Accused of Plot
 We Were to meet in a bank. When l reached Bastrop l met Dummy Me- l hoin and the captain (Skipwith)
 coming out of the bank They spoke
 to me and he and the doctor got in an automobile. They called me over | heard an effort would be made to | kill my brother, five men being sent l up to his farm.
 Captain Skipwith said every 1 thing was all right. I left the parish 1 to go to Fl Paso. When I returned l they had accused me and my brother of having plotted to kill Bunny I McKoin. My brother went to Cap l tain Skipwith who told him every 1 thing was all right. It was just a | false alarm.
 IMPERIAL WIZARD 1 UPHOLDS KLANSMEN l ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 9.-Dr. H. w. l Evans, Imperial Wizard of the ku 1 Klux lNlan, declared in statement 1 issued late tonight that he unhesi- 1 tatingly stands on the denials of klan officials in Louisiana that mem