KU KLUX KLANSMEN ROUTED.
New York, April 2. A body of Ku Klux Klansmen who entered a Pittsburg church yesterday w’ere unmasked and ptit to flight by a resolute usher. Sixteen hooded and robed figures interrupted the Easter service at Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church with a view to presenting the nastoc_with a purse of gold, following the practice adopted by. the Klan in other parts of the country when they have wished to express approval of some particular pulpit utterances. The pastor called on them' to remove their disguises. When they failed to comply the usher, an attorney named Kidney, tore of the hoods from six of the Klansmen, who, with their companions, fled precipitately and escaped in three motrcars, hut not liefore the identity of a number of the inviders and the ownership of the cars were established. Mr. Kidney has called on the District Attorney to prosecute the hand.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 128, 17 May 1923, Page 6
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151KU KLUX KLANSMEN ROUTED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 128, 17 May 1923, Page 6
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