Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-28
Khan King Arrested; Conspiracy C. haEged
Ward Of HE XII XIII 1KElsa 4 4

f4fnnDuS county MONDAY lfHOuSl
Pahe persuasive powers of the law
T. In sharp contrast to the 5000
persons who attended his initial
tKlsn rally last August, less than
IS people were on hand to catch
NJ glimpse of him as he appeared
It, he courthouse about 1890
Nc|ack to accept service on war
rants charging him with conspira-
Lcrao kidnap and conspiracy to as
$ank in connection with two Co.
fdmbus floggings.
= Dressed in a natty navy blue
fspfts Hamilton made bond of
$4,000 in each of the two cases.
The bonds were signed by Mrs.
tRo4er Bullock of Fair Bluff who
Lives in the Spring Branch Sec
ion of Horny County.
aLfhe former Grand Dragon, who
Elkanhoted himself to Imperial
Wizard following the Klan inva-
Zion of this county tlast year, is
/ sAfduled to appear in Recorders
Court on June 10.
r. Hamilton, accompanied by one
Of his lawyers, Waldo Hyman of
n 1Aeence, had nothing to say dur
H1E his brief sojourn in Whiteville
File, shook hands with a couple of
rpdnty officials but made no COM
meat pertinent to the charges for
Which he was arrested Saturday.
z tnrobed and without any white
ribbed Imperial Guard" Hamil-
tpn looked like an average, I'M
businessman.
1.-THE A year old Hamilton,
FIHHnp and bespectacled, surrend-
cred in the office of his lawyer
| i'll Florence, S. c. about 2:30
f9Gock Saturday afternoon, some
20ihours after warrants had been
sworn out against him by North
Carolina officers.
u i&he surrender was made sever
&c hours after George Keels of
Florence revealed that the Klan
dfjeftain would give himself up
akthat point.
- The ex-grocer posted $4,000
Immediately after his arrest and
lEftsimmediately in friends car
and refused to tell neWsmen
Where he was going.
!t16milton waived extradition
and agreed to appear here this
morning to post the appearance
bpnd.
Ellis bond, $4,000 in each of the
TWO charges against him, was
signed at Florence by Mrs Waldo
#kman, Sr., mother of Waldo Hy-
ythn who is a member of the law
finn of Keels and Hyman, Hamil-
this lawyers.
T Keels has been in the spotlight
oil previous occasions as counsel
lf South Carolina Klansmen. He
Npresented Hamilton when the
IMPERIAL Wizard was indicted and
dnyicted in Federal Court for
sliding scurrilous card through
IL mails. More recently, Keels
Ihs in Columbus Superior Court
al counsel for Harvey Barfield,
Nichols, S. c. Klansman, who was
Gdnyicted and given two years in
tie Johnson flogging.
Estate Bureau of Investigation
atents took the warrants to Co.
!t{mbia on Friday. A fugitive war
9nt was signed at Lexington and
tie hunt for Hamilton was on.
But he had left his home at Lees
lille when officers went there to
airest him.
= Despite his later statement that
hwent to Augusta, Ga. ION bust
mss" there was a strong suspicion
flat he had gotten wind of deve-
I'd hents and had flown the coop
deliberately.
SBI Chief James A. Powell had
given the go-ahead signal to
AGENTS James F. Bradshaw and
Jotkn w. Lowder1nilk about 5
O'Clock Friday afternoon. They
had been waiting for word to pro-
ceed.
Sheriff H. Hugh Nance accom-
panied them and remained there
the long vigil.
Solicitor Clifton L. Moore Of
BHgaw prepared his warrants
several days before they were to
be served on Hamilton. One war
rant charges the xxx chieftain
Qss consipirator in the flogging
: Evergreen Flowers, a Negro
Roman who lives near Chadbourn
who was beaten with sticks
II the night of January ID, 1851.
I'VE didn't know there was a
klansman within miles," at the
Inc Of that flogging, Solicitor
Moore said. Gradually, as the evil
dence unravelled, it became ap-
6frent that the downfall of the
9brth Carolina branch of the Khan |
5Qlld be traced to the beating of
lie Flowers woman.
She was beaten by a mob "of
70 or so men" and was struck once
with the butt Of gun. Her hus-
md was believed to have been
intended victim, but he escap-
- by fleeing out a back door.
ssThe Flowers family moved to /
FRO Gordo after the incident.