Evening star., 1936-06-18
.T|PSTERS GUARDED
FROM BLACK CULT.
Beating Of Woman Inform
ant Stirs Police to Action.
al in Custody.
BY tie Associated Press.


DETROIT, June ls.-Authorities
promised protection today to inform
ants who have assisted in rounding
up two-score suspected members Of
the Black Legion, while they investi-
gated the beating OF woman rs
possible act of reprisal by the terror
lists.
The victim of the beating was Mrs.
Dorothy Guthrie. 80. who told police
liam H. Guthrie, printed at their
home the racial, religious and anti
Communistic literature the Black Le-
gion circulated.
Another Black Legion informant,
James Stewart of Ecorse. requested
and received police guard after tell
ing Of a mysterious visit by three
strangers to his home during the
early morning hours.
Al Suspects Held.
The number OF suspected night
riders in custody In Michigan stood
at IL today with the detention Of
William Moore in connection with
what Police Inspector John I. Navaree
said may be another Black Legion
homicide"
Inspector Navaree declined to dis
cuss the case. There were reports
the Staying under investigation was
that Of John L. Bielak a member Of
the Hudson Motor Car Co. local Of
the United Automobile Workers who
was shot to death near Monroe, Mich,
March Is, 1884.
OF the men in custody, SO have
been held for trial on charges rang
ing from hogging to murder. Fifteen
were bound to Circuit Court yester-
day afternoon at the conclusion Of
examinations Of charges Of conspiring
to kill Arthur l.. Kingsley, newspaper
publisher in suburban Highland Park,
and William w. Voisine, village pres
ident Of Ecorse.
Former Mayor in Custody.
Among the IL defendants in the
Kingsley conspiracy are Arthur F.
Lupp, ST.. high officer of the Black
Legion in Michigan, and N. Ray Mark
land, former mayor Of Highland Park.
Recorders Judge John p. Scallen fixed
the bonds at $50.000.
Mrs. Guthrie said she did not see
the face of the man who waylaid her
in her apartment yesterday afternoon,
bound and gagged her with strips Of
black Notwithstanding material torn
from robes of the night riders-and
beat and kicked her.
Police Inspector John A. Hoffman
said the woman's husband would be
detained until this whole matter has
been cleared up" although Guthrie
protested that IF I knew who did
it would tell you."
Accosted by Stranger.
Guthrie said stranger accosted
him on the street Monday, placed
a bullet in his hand-the Black
Legion warning-and admonished
him: You don't know anything about
the Black Legion; don't say any more
about it."
An assistant prosecutor said the
Guthries' 9-year-old daughter Shirley
told him her parents had quarreled
recently. The manager of the apart
ment house where they lived said
Mrs. Guthrie had told him her hus-
band threatened her because she
talked too much" about his connec-
ton with the Black Legion.
The Guthries were detained briefly
after the discovery Of the Black Legion
printing plant in the home from which
they moved hastily after the terrorists
were accused of killing Charles A.
Poole.
Mrs. Guthrie said then she had
been compelled to join the Black
Legion Auxiliary at the home of Mrs.
Lupp.
Voisine carried a pistol yesterday
when he visited court at the examina-
tion Of three men accused of plotting
his death. He said he had received
threats.