The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-30
BUCK IS PASSED
BY JUDGE EVANS
on PLEA Of KHAN
Evades Direct Reply Wher
Asked to Release Prisoner
For Fathers Funeral,
RIOT VICTIM ARRESTED
Klansman Lying in Hospital
Charged With Murder by
District Attorney.
(6y S. THOMAS ZENER, JR., Editor
OF The Keystone American,
Pittsburgh, Pal

PITTSBURGH, PA, May 20. The
mercury IN the mythical barometer of
public feeling has climbed to a high
stage in Cambria county, Pa, as the
result OF the unwarranted attack upon
marching klansmen at Lilly, Pa, Sat
urday night, April 5, and was given
added impetus at Ebensburg late Fri
day when Judge John E. Evans
passed the buck" to Warden Knee
OF the county Jail, on the plea of Khan
counsel for the release of one of the
Jailed men being held, to attend his
fathers funeral.
Godfred Greybeck, 50, father of one
OF the jailed Klansmen, died last We'd.
nesday morning In his home at Wind.
Der from Q complication of diseases.
immediately upon hearing of the aged
mans demise, Cambria county Klans-
men notified the four attorneys repre-
sentlng the Khan in this case, and
they prepared a petition to Judge
Evans which was presented to him
late Friday. Judge Evans procrasti-
mated in the matter, IL is reported,
and left the decision to Warden Knee.
klansmen and other interested Prot
estants could not get in communica-
ton with Warden Knee until late Fri.
day, when he agreed, however, to take
the jailed man to his fathers funeral
at o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Riot vIerim Arrested
Along with this apparent setback,
came the arrest Of Klansman Samuel
Evans, Thursday morning, In Me-
mortal Hospital where he had been
confined from injuries received In the
riot that fatal night at Lilly. Klansman
Evans was companion inmate at
Memorial Hospital of two other mem.
bers Of the organization, both suffering
from Injuries. The other two men are
still confined at the hospital, and
whether they will be placed under ar.
rest Is not known. Evans was ar
rested by Cambria county detective,
acting under the orders of District At.
torney Weimer, and is charged with
murder, carrying concealed weapons,
and riot.
Evans makes the twenty-eighth
Klansman jailed at Ebensburg, the
seat OF Cambria county. The total
number arrested to date Is twenty.
nine, Klansman owen Hale Poor
baugh having died in Memorial Hos
pital from pneumonia which, he de-
clared before his death, was con-
tracted due to ill-treatment In the jail.
The two sisters Of Klansman Poor
baugh made an affidavit to this effect,
In which they stated their brother laid
the blame for his condition directly at
the doors Of the jail attaches, explain
ing that he was not provided with
sufficient bed-colthing and was forced
to walk from his cell to the ambulance
when he was removed.
Return After Burial
Klansman Poorbaugh's sisters and
his aged mother, who hurried here
when they learned OF his death, left
for Baltimore, their home, shortly
after he was buried Sunday, April 81.
CounFei Cor the jailed men at Ebens.
burg are preparing the cases for
presentation to the court at the trials,
which are scheduled to begin the sec
ond week In June.
Only thirteen Lilly residents are in
jail at Ebensburg. State Police are
still quartered at Lilly. and It is re-
ported that they have 'secNred con-
siderable damaging evidences against
the perpetrators Of the riot 81 Lilly.
Religious and racia. stumbling blocks
have been eradicated entirely in the
immediate Johnstown vicinity by the
riot and Its sequences, a number OF
Jewish citizens having voiced their
disapporval OF the entire attack on
the Klansmen.
The families OF the twenty-eIght
Rlansmen are being cared for by the
PENNSYLVANIA State organization. and
the salaries OF the prisoners are being
paid fully Every cOnyenienea they