The Washington times., 1936-06-13
Z MEN JAILED
0NWARRANTS
AT DETROIT
Police Hunt for Others
Suspected Of Part
In Conspiracy

DETROIT, June IS U.N.S).
Charged with attempting to sub
Stitute bullets for ballots, 10 al
legged members of the Black Le-
gion today were ordered held un.
der $4,000 bonds after they stood
mute when arraigned in Re-
corder's Court.
The State alleged that the men
had conspired to kill Mayor Viii
liam Voisine, OF Ecorse, and Ar
thur L. Kingsley, q Highland Park
newspaper publisher, in order to
seiz econtrol of politics in the two
suburban communities.
Among those arraigned was N.
Ray Markland, former mayor of
Highland Park and a native Of
Columbus. md, who had been at
tackled in the editorial columns of
Kingsley's newspaper.
Lupp Also Included
They also included Arthur Lupp,
reputed brigadier general of the
hooded cult in Michigan: two
Highland Park fireman and q
Pontiac police sergeant.
When they stood mute, Judge
John P. Scallen entered not guilty
pleas for them and ordered them
held under $4,000 bonds, two
sureties. 1t was equivalent to set
ting $4,000 balls.
Their arrests followed q con-
feSsion by Dayton Dean, alleged
executioner for the terrorists, that
the Black Legion had plotted the
deaths Of the two men and signed
a pact in their own blood to get"
them. Kingsley and Voisine es.
capped the death plots because I'VE
couldn't find them" according to
Dean. although the mayors home
was bombed.
20 Others Sought
A total of a men now are held
for Black Legion crimes in the
State, and 90 others are sought on
warrants. Fifteen are in jail with.
out bond on charges Of numbering
Charles A. Poole, while it would
require more than 9l,200,000 Sc
curtty to release the others held
under bail.
The finding Of Poole's body Just
a month ago today marked the he-
ginning Of Investigations which led
to the smashing Of the secret
order.
An indictment was returned by
a oneman grand jury at Pontiac,
charging that the Black Legion
was responsible for the burning Of
the farm home Of William Mollen,
hauer, jr., in Oakland county last
August,
Mollenhauer, now living in Hun
tington, Pa, wrote authorities
charging the Black Legion re-
ceived moral support from authori-
ties in Oakland county.
Mollenhauer, in his letter,
charged that deputy sheriffs
usually posted In q nearby town
were absent the night his home
near Pontiac was burned. He
also alleged "the sole attempts Of
the Oakland county sheriff's Of
flee to work on the case consisted
in wrecking furniture in what
they explained to peighbors was
a search for seditious documents"
He added that certain events led
me to believe that 1t was the in
tentien Of Oakland county off,
cials to arrest me and then to re-
lease me to an armed gang" Of
Black LegionnaireS.
Suspected a Red
The former Michigan farmer,
suspected by the Black Legion of
being a Communist leader" said
he had made complaints to Mich
igan authorities at the time his
house was burned but that they
declined to believe him.
Police of Detroit and Pontiac
now are holding nine men in con.
nection with the Mollenhauer
case but only four of them were
named in the Indictment returned
by Judge George 3. Hartwick, sit
ting as a one-man grand jury at
Pontiac, county seat Of Oakland
county.