MURDER TRIAL.
ELEVEN FOUND GUILTY. DETROIT, Sept. 29. All except one of the 12 men tried for the Black Legion killing of Charles Poole were found guilty of murder today, seven in the first degree, for which a life sentence is mandatory, and four in the second degree, sentence for which may be any term, including life imprisonment. A Detroit cable dated May 23 stated that the police had exposed a strange masked organisation known as the “Black Legion,” the leaders of which were charged with practising ritual murders. The police believed that there were at least 10.0 CO legion members at Detroit, and perhaps thousands more in other parts of_ the state and nation. Like the Ku Klux Klan, the programme of the organisation is directed against Catholics, Jews and negroes, and appeared to pursue this policy even more vigorously than did the Ku Klux Klan.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 October 1936, Page 9
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