EIGHT MEN BURNT

Grey River Argus, 12 April 1928, Page 5

EIGHT MEN BURNT

At the Stake BY KU KLUX KLAN. NEW YORK. April U’ \ me-su’u r ' n '" P'tt sbur « “t.-itvs in eonneetitm with flu; suits in th" C'’’”- „„ 11,.. purl of varmns Motions of lilt Ku Klux Klan, that the 1 10 * -• •- ’ in the town of Niles, in Ohm . tale, wero explained by Roy Bar-lay, It chief witness for the rebel Klansmeu. Paiclay testified that the riots at Niles resulted when Klansmen sworn in as deputy sheriffs ordered “YC.ybody f.mm the streets., who werignorant of the Kirn’s pna-vvord. I'* said that the Klan had machine guns mounted on the outskirts of and was prepared to use them to stop a rush of anti-Klansmen. H? declared 11 at one man was ki!l‘l in a riot, at I illy, PcnnsvKania, and that the victim’s name was recorded at the burial as “Poor Boy.” Clarence Ludlow tsetinel that he saw Klan members burn eight mon at the stake. He described the death »>f one victim, who was a wh ie man. He declared that the man w-is sentenced bv a “Kangaroo Court,” aitf-r which he was tied to a stake, and someone poured kerosene over him. They pu.-h--ed brush up around h ; m. and the victim was burned there before three or four hundred Klansmen, dressed in full uniform. IS PRESENT KLAN HEAD A FIEND? Ludlow further testified that the 1 “Imperial Wizard,” Hiram Evans, personally directed the torture of one man, who was sentenced to be flogged, tarred, and feathered. Ludlow said: “Evans was there and saw it all. He told how it should be done. The man was suspended over a barrel. His. hands were fastened to a stake in front of him, and his feet, were held by two Klansmen, who stripped him to the waist. He was flogged over the back and shoulders. with a long leather whip, lie was warned to make no outcry. Weals rose on his back. Then his whole body was stripped. Tar was heated so that it would run freely. Potatoes were placed in the man’s eyes so that the tar would not blind him.”