KU KLUX KLAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 5

KU KLUX KLAN

METHODS OP PUNISHMENT TOTITUKE DESCRIBED Uniteil Press Association -liy Rlectrio Telegraph C'ojij ritfht. Australian Press Association PITTSP.ri.iMf. 10111 April. In tin- Ku Klnn Klan litigation.. Clarpiicp Ludlow further testified that iluImperial Wizard. Hiram Wesley Evans, personally directed the torture' of one Iliatl sentenced Lu he flogged, tailed, an.l feathered. LlldloW Said : "Evans was I here and snw it all. He (nl.l them Imw ii should he done. The man was suspended over a hand with his hands fastened to a slake in front of him and his feet held liy two Klansineii. who had Gripped him in ihe waist. As he was Hogged ovei the hack and shoulders with ;i long leather whip tie was warned in make no outcry. The welts rose in his hack. Then 'his whole liody was stripped ami tin- tar heated so as to inn freely. Potatoes were placed in the man'- ,-ycs si. that the tar would not l.liml him. The lii|tiid was then potiiPil over he- hodv." (1,',-reived' 12th April. 9.45 a.m.) NKW YOPK, 11th April. A message from Pitlsliltrgii slates that further light was thrown upon alleged Kll Klux Klan m.•thuds, when witnesses testified that the organisation possessed a secret society whose olijei't was to i.h !,•:in information regarding all manner ..I' pul.lie officials which uiiglil he used i.i eonirol them if needed. It also trans- ) iie.l t hat '.tie meinhi*,- of the K lan obtained admission t>. tin- Chicajjo Euclin-i.-1 i,• Congress hy posing as a priest, in older 1.. I.l.lain diit.'i for inflammatory anti Calliolic speeches.

E. I.iutham lest died that lie saw two Klaiistnen capture two New York Jewisii salesmen in Oklahoma. They forced them to whip one another, rind when 1 hey did not apply enough blows to each other with long whips, members ~| the Klan joined in the flogging. The Klan men 1 .11 led the. 'la pj jelling