LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
IN KU KLUX KLAN CASE. INSANITY PLEA IGNORED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 24, 9 a.m.) . NEW YORK. December 24. Philip Fox was sentenced at Atlanta to life imprisonment for the murder of William Coburn. The trial caused a great, stir among the Ku Klux Kl.au 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, and Fox, who was 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 in sanity.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17231, 24 December 1923, Page 1
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