IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
STIR IN THE KU-KDUX-KLAX. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Dec. 23. Philip Fox has been sentenced at Atlanta to imprisonment for life for the murder ,of William Coburn. The trial caused a great stir among the Ku-Klux-Klan organisation . throughout the Southern States. Coburn, who was a lawyer, directed a legal fight with the object of wresting the control of the Klan from the Evans group and replacing it in the hands of William Simmons, the founder of the organisation. Coburn’s investigations involved Fox in criminal actions ad Fox, who is publicity manager for Evans, fearing exposure, declared when he shot Coburn that he would rather be hanged than ruined. The jury ignored the plea of insanity.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1923, Page 2
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119IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1923, Page 2
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