"TARGET PRACTICE."
COLD-BiOODED U.S. MURDER.
Sentence of life imprisonment was passed in Detroit on five members of the "Black Legion," the secret United States terrorist organisation, who' murdered a negro "to get a thrill." Their victim was a 42-year-old war veteran, Silas Coleraan, and the accused men admitted that their motive for the crime was that they wanted to know what it felt like to kill a negro. One of the witnesses told Bow * Colonel" Harvey Davie, of the Black Legion, lured the negro down to a lake near Pinekney, Michigan, last summer; The colonel had a week-end party, he said, and his guests " needed eome target practice." Two of the men convicted with Davie had already been sentenced for another Black Legion murder. That was laM May, whon eleven members of the Legion were found guilty of "executing" an ex-Serviceman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 11
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