Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
SOLDIERS AGAIN
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lew minutes after an exchange Of
lorty or nifty shots they found Young
0ead and Warner unconscious
Ihomas slumped to the floor and died
on the way to the city hospital.
forbes lay dead on the sidewalk
OUTSIDE, shot through tre base of the
Skull; Warner died in the hospital
two hours later.
~ company of militia, headed by
800 i.opert Davis arrived today
lio.n carbonate and took charge,
aelslohs OF the battle vary. 1t is
knoWn. however, that it occurred in
the Canary cigar store and barber
Silop, IN the front of the European
notei, a reputed rendezvous of anti
hu hluX Khan adherents.
Accounts agree that a shot was
nred, few minutes before the ont
break from an alley adjacent to n
restaurant operated by Young. The
DuIiet lodged in tell phone mole
boss Lisenby. a Herrin policeman
sald that Thomas fired the shot AT
MN. Spectators fled and Thomas is
reported them to have gone to the
MOTEL a block distant, and cali was
sent out for Young sympathizers to
mobilize. -
The anti-klan version is that
iouilS ana his companions there
Went to the hotel to seek Thomas and
shoot 1t out"
Inc Khan account is that Young
and the others were attacked as thev
passed by outside. Young adherents
asserted Forbes was shct from above
Iho1nas body was cmoved to one
Undertaking establishment ana the
poules OF the others to another place
IL was announced an inquest into the
kllinss would be held Tuesday al
thoueh Coroner McEWan indicated
~ might be started tomorrow.
Llzehby, who said the first shot was
med at him, had been The target of
| outlets before. On the night OF last
t April -, acting as guard at the home
OF sam Stearns. chairman of the
! county board of super .isors. he was
hit IN the leg by a bullet fired from
! a speeding automobile. Previous to
! mat shooting. Stearns ard Young
/ nao mad broken relations over
| Dung s method of conducting raids.
Stearns, who, as bend of tie WI.
Hams county Khan had brought
Young to the county, .elused to fin
ance 1ounG's operations any longer.
| Thomas was appoin- ed deputy
| sheriff by Sheriff George, Galligan
1lve or SIX months ago. He was
among those caught by Young in his
nqour raids last winter and served a
jail sentence upon his conviction in
federal court for that nfiense.
Young had arranged to leave Her
rim and so to Miami, Fla. with his
wife. who was blinded last June
near Granville, His, by assassins'
bullets intended for Young, when
| he heard that Thomas had been ap-
pointed deputy.
Il will stay in the county as long
as Thomas" Young was quoted as
having said.
Although reported to have been
divorced from the state Khan organi-
cation by an official order of Grand
Dragon Palmer of Chicago, and with
crawn from the payroll of the coun-
~ Khan. which was said to have
made up purse of $1,000 to obtain
his removal from the county, Young
rad been free lancing" lately and
was supported by some klansmen
and personal friends.
Major Davis late today issued an
order stopping the long procession of
curious persons passing through the
undertaking establishments to view
the bodies
The body of Young was wrapped in
a purple robe said to designate a
kieagie of the ku klux Khan.
Although first reports said several
rad been wounded in addition to
those Killed. none were taken to the
hospitals. Reports persisted late
To-Day that two standers-by had been
greed by bullets. These, however,
could not be verified