Evening star., 1923-01-01
WITNESS KIDNAPPED
kFTER GIVING TIPS
|ON LAKE MURDERS
!ouisiana Authorities Start
search for Victim of Un-
identified Men.
CALLED FROM BUNKH0USE
TO WAITING AUTOMOBILE
Hearing in DR.. McKoin Extradition
Case Set for Wednesday
in Baltimore.
4y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BASTROP, La, January l.-harola
L Teegeston, employed as a time
keener by a carbon company at
SpvIer. La, four miles south of here
was kidnaped Friday night by party
of men and his whereabouts was un-
Known, according to a report received
by Department of Justice agents ana
Sheriff Fred Carpenter.
Sheriff Carpenter returned TO
Bastrop last night after an investlga-
ton of the kidnapping. He said ne
was informed that at midnight Friday
eegeston was called from his quar-
lers in a bunkhouse by men in auto
mobiles, who drove away in the
darkness with him. The sherlH sdlu
q was told there were sixteen men
n the party and that they occupied
cars from which the license tags hau
been removed.
Was State Witness.
II. j. Burnett, first person arrested
IN the Morehouse investigation, and
who is in the Rastrop Jail under mill
.ary guard on a charge of murder,
was employed at the Carbon plant at
Spyker. He has denied, according to
the authorities, any completely in the
kidnapping and killing OF Watt Daniels
and Thomas Richards last August. and
said he expected to prove he was at
work in the plant on the night the
men were kidnapped. Employees at
the plant and records were to be used
by him TO prove an abb, ne sald.
Department of Justice agents are
said to have questioned Teegeston for
some time Friday night prior to the
alleged kidnapping. II was stated that
the investigators expected 10 can
TeegeSton as state witness at the
open hearing here January 5.
1t was stated early today that
neither the sheriff nor the Depart
ment of Justice investigators had re-
ports as to the whereabouts of the
reported missing carbon employe.
With the public hearing only about
three days off, state officials who Will
have charge of presenting the states
case, still labored over the mass of
a evidence gathered by investigators
Y Turing the last four months. 1t was
aid that testimony concerning dep-
,edations of organized and masked
bands for more than year past had
Jaen reviewed by the Attorney Cen
erals office. 1t was declared that the
hearing would not only reveal evi-
dence as applying to the kidnapping
and killing of Daniels and Richards,
L
zion of other alleged crimes laid at
the door of masked bands, not only
Ia MorehouSe parish but in other
Louisiana parishes.
Mayor Defends Citizens.
Mayor A. ]. Goodwin of Bastrop is
sued a statement today in behalf of
the citizens of his town, ito correct
The false impression the public has
obtained of our home country be-
cause of the outrage last August
which /, together with the people of
Bastrop, most vigorously condemn"
He added that I'VE are not a gun
toting, Wild, savage people. We are
iaw-ablding, like the people of the
rest of the United States. Other com
munities throughout the country have
had similar tragedies in their midst,
hut they have not been condemned as
a unit
He declared that he "can assure
every one that life and limb are safe
and that order prevails"