San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-11
50 kLANSMEN
FREED AFTER
SHOOTING
Is to Answer Charges in
Wake Of Rioting in
Bay State.
DIV the Assoclated Press.

| BIRMINGHAM, Mass, Aug. IL
| Sixty of the 75 men taken into Gus
| tody last night after Ku Klux Khan
! meeting had broken up in n shooting
| ARRAY in which five men were wound
ed, were released today. The other
10 were held in 5000 bail for appear
ance August 10 on charges of assault
with dangerous weapons.
Twenty-four of the men were ar
raigned after the others had been dis
missed without hearing. Nine others
were dismissed for lack of evidence.
One of those held was Perley W.
Libby, upon whose farm the khan meet
ing was held. 1t was in Libby's house
that the klansmen took shelter when,
they declared. stones were thrown at
them by watchers along the road.
State troopers rounded up 40 men in
the Libby house, 90 more in the barn
and eight others in the bushes sur
rounding the buildings.
2IN HOSPITAL
Two of the wounded, Alonzo Foley
and Thomas Sliney, both of Saxon
vile, are at the Framingham hospital
Foley. shot through the left temple
with buckshot, is in n serious condi-
ton. Sliney has two facial wounds.
The others. William Bradley and Ed
mund Purcell of birmingham and
Francis Mcguire of Saxonville were
able TO go home after their wounds
were dressed.
The riot, one Of the most serious
khan disorders ever staged in New
England. started last night when
crowd Of hostile spectators, gathered
outside of field on the farm of Pear
ley W. Libby. where 100 klansmen in
tended to hold their fifth meeting in as
many weeks.
BUCKSHOT FIRED.
A few taunts and rocks hurled at
the klan5men by the outsiders were
answered by six charges of buckshot
fired from the darkness near a hem
house beside the Libby house. As the
five men fell, the outsiders dispersed,
pausing long enough to pick up the.
wounded and carry them TO the nearby
office of DIR. c. ]. Carr, who dressed
their wounds and then notified the
state police. ----
Lieutenant Charles 7. Beaupre and
four other state troopers rushed TO the
scene. He Immediately called troop
ers from the Concord, Holden and
Reading stations.
The police then surrounded the
Libby farm house and arrested 45 men
found inside. A search of the barn
revealed % more and eight others
were found hiding in the bushes.
State troopers also found, they said,
1.-TWO shotguns, a rifle and two belts
/ = h. IN n
place. A jammed rifle, it was said,
was found in an automobile.
CROWDS SURROUND JAIL.
The rs men were loaded on state
police trucks and removed to the
birmingham police station. Ten men,
said to have been members of the anti
khan crowd, had minor injuries dress
ed. As many more, injured by rocks
and clubs, did not require medical
treatment. 49, al
Early today hundreds Of men from
| surrounding towns came here and
| Joined the throngs Of townfolk which
milled about the streets in the vicinity
Of the police station, where the rs
alleged klansmen were locked up. A
/ large detail Of state and town police
was on hand to prevent further dis
/ orders.
The stories told by the two fac
tions in the riot, differ widely. The
| anti-klansmen claim that they were
fired on from ambush as they stood in
the highway in front of the Libby
farm. The klansmen claim that rocks
had been hurled at them from the
highway. This was denied by spec
tators who said that they were not
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