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A MURDER CHARGE. FORMER MAYOR OB’ MERROUGE ARRESTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK. December 26. (Received Dec. 27, at 7.35 p.m.) A telegram from Baltimore, Maryland, states that Dr B. MTvain, a lormer Mayor of Merrouge, has been arrested on a murder charge upon the orders ofGovernor Parker, of Louisiana, in connection with the Ku Klux Klan murders. Dr M'Kain is now a post-graduate student at the hospital here. He described an ambush attempt on his life last August, and he declared that he would return to Louisiana without military protection. He declined to answer questions in regard to his membership of the Ku Klux Klan, but related decoy calls made by the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of negro patients cn the outskirts of a town. Dr M'Kain has protested his entire ignorance in connection with the murders or anything in connection with them.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18747, 28 December 1922, Page 5
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151KU KLUX KLAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 18747, 28 December 1922, Page 5
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