The Washington times., 1928-04-21

In other states, members Of the
organization boasted OF buring men
at the stake, OF flogging, Of cutting
off the ears Of victims. and of
branding others with acid and red
hot irons.
Ii is the close OF a document
intended by Stephenson to be a
revelation to the American people
OF the activities of the most dis
cussed secret order in the history
of the nation.
The deposition follows:
Q.-Bascd upon personal kn0wl.
edge and from the records which
YOU kept and have been in your
Maid into the khan treasury in
Pennsylvania?
Al should judge approximately
twenty million dollars.
O.-Of what does that consist.
/ A.-Of the original donation of
ten dollars and all dues that nave
been paid in. OF money derived
from the sale OF robes.
Q.-Could you give us more de-
failed statement for the benefit Of
the court and the defendants2
A.-4There were approximately
400 900 klansmen in Pennsylvania
at the peak. At ten dollars per
hand would be $S,000,000. They
Maid Sc each for robes-will say
fhey. paid five dollars to be con-
seryative That is 1000, 900. by
doing this It will climate those who
POSSIBLY did not buy robes. That
would probably be a total of
81 500, 900 Then they paid So per
year dues. that is $1,SO0.0OO.
Riots and Bloodshed
Extended over a period of seven
years at Sc per man would be
SIS, 900, 900.
Then there was probably d drift
membership of an additional one
hundred thousand members. That
lis to say, as some dropped out
others came in which would be
$1,0OO,0OO more. The robes Of those
and the women's organization would
probably run the total amount IN
excess of the estimated figures OF
$20, ZOO, 900.
@. Have you any knowledge Of
any violence authorized and directed
by the plaintiff corporations?
A.--They told me on q number Of
occasions of instances where they
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out and burned them at the stake,
one of whom they burned alive.
Another one they cut his ears ,off,
Another one they branded Il. X. X.
across his forehead with either hot.
iron or acid. These they not only
told me about but Dragged about
them and boosted OF them.
There was a riot at Perth Amboy,
NJ. .. !, In the early spring Of 1923
or In the summer Of 1923, / have
forgotten the exact date. in which
a number OF Klansmen were beaten
up by the police officers ard anti.
khan. elements That riot was I'm.
cited BY the conduct of live men
sent to Perth An1bOy for the pIr-
pose Of provoking q riot.
Would Annex Church
{ @, What was the purpose Of hav.
ing these riots?
A. They repeatedly said to me
that wherever violence could be
provoked and the impression cree
ated that the khan was being per-
secuted. 1t would have a tendency
to stimulate the recruiting of men,
bers.
@. What knowledge. If any, have
you of the khan annexing the
church?
A. Mr.. Evans told me on a mum.
Der Of occasions that it was his i'm
tentiOn to break up the variety Of
Protestant churches that existed
and make one khan church, and
through the activity Of that khan.
dominated. or klan-Inade church TO
control the electorate and through
the electorate control the republic.
and to exalt the khan to indeed
place of dictatorship that would
make it in fact as well as in theory
the invisible empire Of the United
States.