KU KLUX KLAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 5

KU KLUX KLAN

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

INSIDE DISCLOSURES

FACTION SUITS

United Press Association -By Elect! t« Telegra pli Copy right Australian Press Association

NEW YORK. Dili April

A message from Pittslmig states I hat counter Federal Court suits of various factious of the Kit Klux Klan have been called here for trial. Testimony is presented from D. (.-. Mevenson, former Grand Dragon, who is serving a lite term for the murder of a girl, which offence he claims was placed on his shoulders l)V the Klan. fie and other witnesses testified that oflieors ot the lvlan were guilty of a variety ot crimes, including intimidation and use ot women to ''frame” members who tei used to obey Dr. .Simmons, the Klan s touuder. Testimony was offered that the so called National Klanvocation" was merely an apparent gathering of members to pass oil the actions of superiors and decide further action, lor in reality Hiram Wesley Evans held complete control of the gathering, under the understanding that olticers and members who would not support, jeopardised his and their own safety. WASHINGTON, 9th April.

Hiram W. Evans. Imperial Wizard of the. Kn Klux Klan. told the Dress that the K lan's sole activity in the [’residential campaign would he to light ;igainst the iiullificationist, (,o\ n inai “Al” Smith.

KLAN VICTIMS

BCTiN'r AT THE STAKE

Australian Press Association (Received lltli April, 9.30 ti nt.) NEW YORK. lOtlt April. Pittsburgh messages state Roy Barclay. chief witness for the rebel group of Klansmen, testified that riots at Niles. Ohio, in 1924. resulted when Klansmen sworn as deputy sheriffs ordered everybody from the streets who were ignorant of tho Klan’s password. He said the Klan had machine guns mounted on tho outskirts of Niles arid prepared to use them to stop a rush of anti-Klansmen. Ho declared that one. man was killed in a. riot at Lilly, Pennsylvania, and the victim’s name was recorded at the burial as “poor hoy.” Clarence Ludlow testified that he saw Klan members burn eight men at the stake. He described the death of one victim, who was a white rnan. __ He declared ho was sentenced by a “Kangaroo Court,'' after which he was “tied to a stake and someone poured kerosene oyer him. They pushed brush up around him and tho victim was burned there before three or four hundred Klansmen dressed in full uniform.”