KU KLUX KLAN MURDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 306, 27 December 1922, Page 6

KU KLUX KLAN MURDERS.

CHARGE AGAINST A DOCTOR. PEOMPT DENIAL OF GTJIXT. AMBUSHED BY THE KLAN. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) 'Received 2 p.m.l NEW YORK!, December 20. At Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. B. McKoin, former >Layor of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested on a murder charge laid by Governor Parker, of Louisiana, in connection with Ku Klux Klan murders. Dr. McXoin, who is now it post graduate student at the hospital here, described an attempt on his life by an ambush last August, declaring that he would not return to Louisiana without military protection. He declined to answer a question concerning his membership in the Klan, but told how decoy calls were made to him by the members of the Klan on behalf of negro patients on the outskirts of the town. When he went out in response to these calls he was subjected to hostile revolver firing from ambush while returning in his motor car. J>ater he received a warning that his assailants intended to continue their attacks, under which threat he left the town. The doctor now protests his entire innocence of the murders or any connection with them.— (A. and N.Z.) Mer Rouge is the scene of the discovery on Christmas. Day of the bodies of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, two men who were kidnapped by tho Kit Klux Klan, and were found at the bottom at Lake La Fourche, after an attempt had been made by dynamite to bury them under the mud at the bottom of the lake.