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RESULT OF RIOTS. CHARGES OF MURDER. 8Y CABLE —PRiSCJ ASSOCIATION—GOPYRIGH l NEW YORK, June 15. A telegram from Lilly, Pennsylvania, says the trial successively of 17 Klansmen charged with the murder of three persons as the result of Ku Klux Klnn riots has already resulted in one acquittal. but further riots and trouble are foreshadowed, the Xian having sent letters threatening death to the prosecuting attorney (Mr Weimer) if he brings another Klansman to trial.
.The acquitted Klansman has not been released, since he must be tried three times, and the Prosecutor is determined to secure a conviction. Mr Weimer stresses the fact that 13 townspeople also face murder trials as a result of their part in the disastrous warfare, and he is determined to secure impartial justice. The fttait* authorities have turned the local hotel, into an arsenal, troopers, cavalry, machine-guns and much ammunition being available to prevent trouble. Religious fervour has seized the Klan, a revival service being held in the gaol, where those imprisoned sang hymns and professed conversion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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175KU KLUX KLAN Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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