The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-11
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dozens of reputable people interviewed is. divided into two classes of fac tions. The Ku KIlx Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Circle, anti. klan or wet and a third group who have kept aloof from it all. 4
 Consequently, xresidents said, there is continual strife.
 Sheriff George Galligan and his dep uties admit their department is at odds with Young and his forces. Young i charged Galligan with laxity ln law enforcement and Gilligan charged | Young with unwarranted and un- authroized interference with the law enforcement of the city and county.
 One prominent citizen of Herrin de- clared that the present trouble started last December and amounts to nothing more or less than a fight for control of Herrin and Williamson county be- tween the klan, referred to as the drys, but who declare they are for law en- forcement onlys ahd the. Knights of the Flaming Circle, referred to as the vets, but who say they resent inter ference with loeA government. >"tf
 klansmen And Anti-Klan
 Part of the city administration, this citizen said, is known as klansmen, and the other part as anti-klansmen. By political jockeying, he said, an en- tire new police force was appointed on the first of January. The new force was admitted to be favorable to the klan side of the administration.
 Shortly after that, he said, Sheriff Galligan was taken i'll and was con- fined to his home. In the meantime, however, Young headed a group of deputized citizens and continued to make raids in Herrin and the county. There was much shooting and many of those whose homes were raided charged Young and a numbert of his raiders with property destruction. Young and a number of his men were arrested on nine counts, but all made bond of $1 ,000 for each count, and were re- leased. pending investigation by the Williamson county grand jury.
 Residents, priAcipally French and Italians, just o}{side of Herrin, have filed charges w4th their respective con- suls alleging damage and loss of prop erty.
 Sense Tense Situation
 Herrin appeared as peaceful as the calm, almost springlike Sabbath that greeted it today, but there was an at- mosphere, of tenseness in the air as grim-faced citizens with large, six pointed tin stars, ~reyolFers protruding from their pockets, and national guards men with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets.
 Although Herrin appeared quiet it was not so throughout the county and in other. parts of the southern end of the state. ..
 M. J. Trout, one of the men charged with the murder of Constable Caesar Cagle last Friday night, who was be- ing held under guard at the Herrin hospital, escaped and several auto loads of searchers were securing the country. side for him.
 officers Still Missing,
 Nearly a half hundred others were on the trail of John Ford, chief of police of Herrin, and Patrolman Harold Grain, kidnapped by Sheriff George Galligan after riot at Rome hall here Friday night. Galliga1 who was sub- sequently arrested and charged with Cagle's murder, in a statement declared for their own safety.
 Efforts on the part of s. Glenn Young, acting chief of police of Her
 
 Klansmen, their paid employe, to effect the release of thq policemen from the jail at Murphrysboro were not avail able last night. When a number of citizens reached Murphysboro last night the policemen were not there, and ac- cording to their reports had been taken to Bellville, Ills.
 Young charged the sherift's forces with the deliberate kidnapping of the policemen, and today stated they are hunting them from one part of the state to another with the ultimate intention of keeping them out of Her rin, as they are witnesses to the shoot ing of Cagle.
 Martial Law Anticipated
 Although Adiutant General Carlos Black arrived here from Springfield at s o'clock this morning, this after noon he had not given any indica- tions of his intentions to recommend that the city be placed under martial law. Other officers here and many citizens, however, declare that martial law Is inevitable, not so much for fear of the lawless, they said, but to give the city and the county a working government.
 1 c. A. Anderson, mayor of Herrin, George Galligan, sheriff of Williamson county. are in jail charged with Cagle's murder, Chief of Police John Ford iS being heldsA prisoner outside the county, and 'reslJents claim it is quite necessary thatAfAe military take full control. q,
 Made Chief "By Consent" . $. Glenn Ioun, when asked yester. day by what manner he had become acting chief of police, declared he had been previously appointed as a police