The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-03
KLAN LEAVES
DEATH trail
in HERRIN, ILL.
Murderers Backed BY
Protestant Churches

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
HERRlN, H., Sept. 2.--RemovaI
of Sheriff George GalIIgan as q
means to peace in Williamson coun-
ty will be asked Of Gov. Len Small,
by a committee representing the
county ministers association and
other citizens, 1t was decided this
afternoon after the same COMMITTEES
had called on the county board to
urge that body to use its influence
to bring about the removal.
The committee Is headed by Rev.
I. E. Lee, of the First Baptist
church. 1t is charged the Protest
ant churches are in alliance with
the Ku klux Khan.
The governor is the only person
empowered to remove sheriff. It
is now charged the governor is also
a kIansman.
The Christian church here, depu-
ties charge, has been used as an
arsenal to store ammunition for the
Khan. It is rumored that the police
cleaned it out Of ammunition Satur-
day night.
Especial to The Daily worker)
HERRIN, Ill.,, Sept. Six
men dead and several wounded.
This is the toll of the latest out
rage perpetrated by the Ku
KIux Khan in what the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce is
pleased to call bloody William
son County"
Sheriff Galligan and his depu-
tiles were served with warrants
charging them with murders Of
three persons killed last Satur-
day. A warrant is issued for the
arrest of States Attorney Delos
Duty, charging him with con-
spiracy in the murders.
Doctor ]. T. Black, head of the Her
rim Hospital, is released on $4,000
bond The Klan-controlled city adj
ministration charges him with being
al dull-hldH SyupdtuiLeI.
Thirty automobile loads of ammuni-
tions were unloaded at the rear of
the city hall last night All efforts to
trace the autos were unsuccessful.
Police and firemen were not giving
out any information. Fear of whizzing
bullets seals lips.
Started in 1922.
The people are in deadly fear Of
the next outbreak. Since the 1922
riot at the scab mine, during which
several strikebreakers were killed,
the county is divided into warning
factions, one the Khan faction backed
by the operators and the Protestan&
churches, the other friendly to the
miners union.
Adj. Gen. Carlos Black announced
that he would withdraw the troops,
which were sent into Herrin on the
request of Sheriff Galligan. States
Attorney Duty, charges Gen. Black
with being a member of the Khan
People are beginning to think that
Governor Len Small is also sympa-
thetic to the hooded order. Not be-
cause Small believes in the purpose
of the Khan, but for reasons of poll
tical expediency
The latest death-carnival started
last Saturday after the Shelton broth
ers were acquitted of the charge Of
numbering Constable eagle, Khan
policeman, during the Glenn Young
raids. The constable's death occurred
on February 8.
Khan Killed SkeIeher.
After the acquittal, deputy sheriff,
who had loaned Dodge car to Jack
Skelcher, another deputy, to hunt
Glenn Young in the Ohaw bottoms last
February, went to Smiths garage to
recover his car. Smith is a promi-
nent Klansman. Skelcher was muir
dered by the Khan and the Dodge car
ried bullet marks.
The Dodge was stored in Smiths
garage by Klansmen after they had
shot and killed Skelcher a few months
ago. The immediate cause OF the
shooting was the attempt OF deputy
sheriffs to recover their car from the