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AIURDER TRIALS (By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) (Australian and JN.Z. Ct-ble Association.) NEW YORK, June 15. A telegram from Lilly, Pennsylvania, says the trial successively of seventeen Klansmen charged With the murder of three persons as a result of Ku Klux Klan riots has already resulted in one acquittal; but further riots and trouble were foreshadowed when the Klan sent letters threatening death to prosecuting Attorney Wcimer if lie brings another Klansman to. trial. The acquitted Klansman has not been released, since lie must be tried three times and the prosecutor is determined to secure a conviction.
Attorney Weimer stresses the fact that thirteen townspeople also face murder trials as a, result of their part in _ the disastrous warfare, and he is determined to secure impartial justice. State authorities turned a local hotel into an arsenal, troopers, cavalry, machine guns and much ammunition being available to prevent trouble. Religious fervour has seized the Klan, several services being held in the gaol where those imprisoned sang hymns and professed conversion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 June 1924, Page 5
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