New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1922, Page 12

MEMBERS OF K. . K. ON MURDER TRIAL Rleven Prominent Citizens in (Oklaboma to Be Tried Ardmore, Okl Jan A cuse | which, in the words of State Attorney | General 8. P, Freeling, “will mean the lite or death of the Ku Kulx Klan in | Oklahoma,” will be called here day when eleven of Carter county's most prominent citizens are to b arralgned before Judge Thomas J Champlon in district court for trial | on charges of murder. | The defendants, all well Kknown | business and professional men of the | county, were among seventeen arrest- | ed following an attack by nine mask- | ed men upon Joe Carroll at his home | in Wilson the night of Decemt 15 | when three men, one of them C oll, was fatally shot. | Originally, fifteen were held for | murder and two as witnesses for the | state but at subsequent sessions of the | joint examining trial of seven of the men before Justice 1. W. Butcher, the case against four, one of them a Baptist minister, were dismissed on | motion of the prosecution that no | evidence was at hand to connect them | with the affair On this night in mid-December, the | state charges, more than 100 men from Ardmore and the surrounding county, all masked and with buckets of tar and pillows of feathers, gath- | ered in a pasture just five miles south of Wilson and later sent eight of their number in two automobiles under the leadership of C. G. Sims, Ardmore police detective, to “get” Joe Carroll. A statement to authorities by one of the defendants shortly after his ar- rest was to the affect that Sims had | persuaded the band of men to accom- pany him that night “'to round up sev- eral ‘wet’ car dealers and bootleg- gers.” Unable to find Carroll's residence, the eight men then called at the home of John Smith in Wilson and one of their number, a relative of Smith, made him leave a sick bed and guide them to Carroll's house, telling him, according to the testimony of Smith's wife at the preliminary hearing, that “you are forced to do it as I have been forced.” When the men called at Carroll’s home he answered their summons to the front door and at their command to throw up his hands drew his re- volver and wounded one of the men who attempted to wrest it from him. Then amid the screams of women and shouts of men, a gun battle en- sued, also participated in by Carroll's brother, who lived next door. When the fierce exchange of rifle and pistol shots subsided and the masked men had fled in their automobiles, Car- roll's lifeless body was picked up off his doorstep and John Smith, a few to- | minutes later, was found on a street| in Wilson not far from the scene of the engagement, suffering from bullet wounds which within two hours caused his death. The following day, shortly before roon, Sims’ dead body, clad in a suit of khaki unionalls, was found lying in the pasture where twelve hours vefore, he had planned to administer punishment to Carroll for his al- ieged activilies as a bootleggec. Jeft $mith, the man who wounded in the affray, guided the thorities to the pasture when Sims’ hodv was discovered and told theni, Jt was brought out at the pr:linun- ary trial, that the place had frequeri- ly been used as a meeting place for the “Citizens’ League or Ku Klux Klan.” He is one of the defendants in the case. The custodian of a local lodge hall, in which the Ku Kiux Klan rents rooms, testified at the hearing that on the night of the killings, one of the defendants and another man whom he did not recognize, left the *“prop- erty” room rented by the Ku Klux Klan with bundles under their arms. The defendant admitted in a signed statement to authorities that he was one of those who later met in the pasture. Efforts of the prosecution then were directed toward establishing the Ku Klux Klan's connection with the incident and the examination of wit- nesses ended abruptly when FKrank was Bourland, who, the lodge hall custo- | dlan testified, paid rent on the Ku Klux Klan rooms, refused “to testify as to his connection with the organi- zation. He also declined to answer the prosecutor’s query as to what a large box in the “property’ room contained. Nineteen questions, all pertaining to the Ku Klux Klan, were asked him and he refused to answer all but one. A sensation was produced at the first day of the hearing when Walter Carroll's brother & while on the witness stand and accused Ray L. Beede, local automobile des and one of the defendants, of Killing his | brother during the fight. Just A Real Good Car| $890 f. 0. b. ‘ " A, G. HAWKER | | ¥ | ' { THERE THI All our Ranges. Parlo Heaters, both new and have been marked down GO Stoves and | We'll get your stove repuirs. | A. LIPMAN | 34 Lafayette St. | A. CZELLECZ, Tailor For 13 Yecars at 99 ,‘<lmlmz Street, | Has Moved His Place_Of Business to §8 Dwight Street, . Prices Reasonab " Ha First picture of Will Hays, postmaster general, signing three- zation of motion picture year contract as head of the new organi His salary will be $150,000 yearly. producers and exhibitors. ys Signs Motion Picture Comirac high jump. picked from Quinn, hurdles and team will be Hennett, Kennedy, aton part in the The relay McCarthy, Chute and MURRAY NAMED AS COACH, Pormer Brown Player to Drill Bos- ton University Nine, Hoston, Jan, 21.—Willilam A, Mur- ray, former, major leaguc baseball star and captain of the Brown Uni- versity nine for twa years, has been appointed to couch the Boston Uni- versity buseball team, it was announc- | ed today. | Murray played two seasons with the | Washington Senators and now is a student in the Boston University Law | school, | p s - e BIG OFFER FOR RYERSON. | Austrian Horsemen Prepared to Pay | U. S. Driver $10,000 a Season. | Middletown, N. Y, Jan, 21—A| representative of one of the leading horsemen of Austria has reached here | for the purpose of engaging Ira Rtyer- son of Goshen, N, Y., one of the best | known drivers and trainers in the United States, to drive in that coun- [ tuy | Later, in a signed statement before a notary public at Wilson, Carroll re- pudiated his testimony at the hear- ing and declared he knew nothing of the identity of any persons partici- pating in the attack on his brother. The following day, however, he issued another signed statement here, deny- ing that he he could not identify any of the party of masked men and declaring that his testimony at the hearing “stood.” Due to conditions here, growing out of an investigation by the attor- ney general's department of alleged lax law enforcement in Center county, a committee of local citizens called upon Governor Robertson and asked that he act in the This re-| sulted in the commi: ning of At- torney General I°r ng to take per-| e of the prosecution of the seding local county officers. »d wide inter- est throughout the state and the court room is the same in which Cla Smith Hamon was tried last sprin for the murder of Jake L. Hamon, republican nationil ~committeeman and wealthy oil man. Present intentions of the prosecu- tion, it was indic: 1, are to try seven of the defendants jointly and the re- maining four requested severances, separately. | The deféndants are! Harlow, J. A. Gilliam, Ray L. Bi ©. G. 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