INCITING OF INDIAN RIOT
Klan Leader Convicted
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LUMBERTON (North Carolina), March 16.
James Cole, acknowledged Grand Wizard of North Carolina’s Ku Klux Klan, was convicted yesterday of inciting a riot among Lumbee Indians on January 18. Judge Clawson Williams deferred sentencing. James W. Martin, another Klan official, was convicted on. the same charge. The all-male, all-white jury deliberated 43 minutes before returning its verdict. A crowd of 350, predominantly Indian, packed the small court room when the verdict was returned.
Cole, a self-styled minister in the Southern Free Will Baptist Church, was indicted on the riot charge after a crowd of Indians broke up a Klan rally near Maxton with gunfire.
The Indians said they became angry after the Klan burned two crosses in front of Indian homes the week before the widely-advertised rally. One of the crosses was burned in front of the home of an Indian woman whom the Klan accused of having an affair with a white man. The other cross was burned in front of the home of an Indian family that had moved into a white neighbourhood.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 15
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