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(Continued from Page 4) , are enfaired to George Taylor?" "I am." "Then you love htm?" "I certainly do!" "Then, It is plaint ho said, turning to the judge, "that the young lady is prejudiced in tils behalf. I am simply bein? made the victim of lover's plot to foist Taylor's crime onto an Innocent party. Because I was intimate with the judge, they hare selected me. Had I not been there they might have picked one of you, gentlemen of the jury' The state's attorney looked at him sternly. "Mr, Cameron, there is a lawyer hired to plead your case," he reminded him, ''and you are not expected to do it yourself. I would .advise that you let your attorney handle the defense The judge will so, rule. I will now proceed with my Questioning." The skill with which Cameron

warded ofT the lawyers in their cross-questioning, and with which "he escaped their tangles, showed plainly that this was not his first time in court. The jury, however, was not easily convinced ot bis innocence, and when he left the stand he stood in a much worse plight. in their eyes than when he began to testify. His attempted evasions and sneering references to Gene and Taylor went, against their grain and to all appearances Cameron had committed himself. Several character witnesses then testified. They were practically unanimous in their assertions regarding Taylor. He was a highly respected, clean gentleman in ' every particular. Most of them were doubtful of Cameron. All, apparently, disliked him. Having begun this examination of character, it seemed the stream of witnesses was endless. Irate parents, whose chil

dren had come under his pernicious influence, were anxious to register

their indignation. Friends former

friends to whom he had proved

traitor, were there to pay him their respects. Business men that he had defrauded; children whom he had abused in school; subordinate

teachers who had ached under the lash of his stinging cynicism a ceaseless procession for hours. It would have seemed impossible that

a man could make so many enemies In a short year. Then the trend of testimony took a new turn. A young lady, frightened and sobbing, told

how he had tried to assault her. She had kept this secret, fearing the publicity, but had felt that it must come out at this trial. Mrs. Brownson, extremely humiliated and not in a physical condition to appear in court, nevertheless braved the critical eyes of sensation-seekers and related the story of hs advances on the train and subsequent complicity with Morris Stewart. The farmer who had ; watched him the night Frances was attacked told the whole story. Others backed it up. Then the "Madame's" letter was read and the whole plot bared. The feeling in the audience was intense. The judge

rapped again and again. Mothers walked forward and spat at him. Women all over the house hissed him. Police were called to keep, down mob violence. "Why, the damn dog!" said a farmer, gritting his teeth,, "he oughtn't to be allowed to live!' '"Wed be doing humanity a favor to remove such a despoiler of virtue!" broke in another. "You are right." agreed a third, "and I say, let's lynch him!" Several men moved forward. Taylor was on his feet in an instant. "Gentlemen, this will never, never do! This man is being tried in a constituted, court, in a regular legal way, by a 4ury of freemen. I, too, am on trial. I am not afraid but that these men will give us justice.

We gain nothing by rash action. Let

everything be done through the reg

ular channels of the law. Please go

back to your seat? and await the

Jury's decision." Without further remarks or dem

onstration the men turned and

marched back to their places in the ; courtroom and the trial proceeded in an orderly mannpr. There was, oi

course, a certain tension and every

one expected something to break

loose at any time. For this reason

the judge expedited matters as much as possible and the last witnesses made their testimony brief. The evidence was all in by four in the afternoon, this being the second day of the trial, and the lawyers made their final pleas. The prosecutor condemned Taylor and Cameron equally, but the state's attorney took especial puins to heap his

diatribe on Taylor. At every turn he referred to the lawlessness of the Ku Klux Klan and the part they had in this atrocious murder. Despite ; the testimony of the townspeople, George was pictured as being a criminal of the worst order, a political trickster and an unscrupulous schemer. The evidence was turned over to the jury at six and they retired to the jury room. The prisoners -were . led back to the jail through vast ' throngs who waited sullenly Jnst outside the courtroom. Taylor, bo- . Ing first, was cheered lustily on ' every side. Hundreds shook his hand,

others patted his shoulder and assnred him that they would see to it

that he tot justice.

They then brought Cameron,

guarded by six policemen.' The offl

rers had to tight their way through

t the throngs. It was plain that the whole town and countryside had turned out and the men were in a

bad mood. "There's the cur! Get. him!

someone shouted. The whole mass - moved forward. Conrageowsly the ' policemen battled their way for-

ward, dragging the frightened pris

. oiier" With them. . Several men were

"'J knocked down and others bruised.

, Blood flowed freely. Fresh detachment of police came to assist and , tor a while, It seemed a riot was cer

tain. Cameron was placed in an Inner cell of the jail and a hurry .call

was sent,, to the governor for state militia. As night drew on the crowd Increased, growing -more end more unruly. They wanted blood, and Cameron, cringing in his cell, knew

that his time was short. These men,

this mob which was gathering, he surmised, were Klansmen. He ex

pected, at any moment, the jail doors

would be battered down and be

would go to as Ignominious death,

his body dangling from a telephone-

pole. Then that little spark of eon

science which abides in the heart of

every man mounted in him. If he should die tonight, Taylor would

still be held for the crime he had

committed. The jnry was still de

liberating locked in the Jury room

until a decision should be reached.

He called for the jailer.

"Here, give me a piece of paper

and a pen, and yon be a witness to

this," he said.

Taking the paper the jailer handed

him, he wrote in a nervous scrawl

his confession. The words read :

"I, Rollo Cameron, hereby testify that George Taylor' is innocent of the murder of Judge Karraker. I killed the judge myself, after trying to kidnap his daughter. "Signed, "ROLLO CAMERON."

The Jailer did not see what he was

writing. He only saw him write

The noise outside was dying down

now. Cameron noticed this. Then he calmly folded the paper and

slipped it into his pocket It might

not be necessary after all, he de cided. He would await develop

ments.

But he was premature in his de

cision concerning the mob. Judge Lynch was in the saddle. It was only a lull before the storm. The

word passed from lip to lip, "Prompt

Iy at ten o'clock, be ready! We will storm the jail and take him out and lynch him like a common nigger!"

Hardened men clenched their fists, steeled themselves for the ordeal and waited. Adventure-seeking boys held themselves in restraint with difficulty. Tonight Prairie City would see a white man, its superintendent of schools, hung to the highest pole. This was the decision of the enraged populace. All the fiercest brute passions of men were being fanned into action. The old savage desire for

blood, to delight in torture, to watch someone's death agonies with grim pleasure, was mounting. Nothing short of a miracle could save the life of Rollo Cameron. But there was another force with

which Judge Lynch, with all his sav

age power, had never reckoned. It was one he would have to reckon

with forever after. It eventually

would dethrone him in the Southland

and in his place erect the altar of

justice justice administered through legal channels in the Anglo-

Saxon manner. It was the Ku Klux

Klan. In the office of Sheriff Beatty tele

phone bells jingled. At the exchange

all other calls had been sidetracked

and Imperial Nighthawk Arthur sent

message after message. The Klexters of a dozen Klaverns in Bois

d'Arc county were busy distributing robes to hurrying Klansmen. For

fifty miles about there was commo

tion at various halls.

At nine o'clock the governor of the

state, in the Capital City, received a telegram. It read:

"You need not send troops. Prisoner amply protected. "Signed, "SHERIFF BEATTY, "Bois d'Arc county."

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publication until solutions have been reached."

Whatever these reforms may be.

they naturally can not be taken Into

consideration, either, until they are

made effective. Judgment for the

time being most be cased on the

Klan as it is. And, from the facts available, it seems clear that the

Klan today is still irresponsible, uncontrollable, autocratic, and terror

istic m form: that if its members

keep their oaths and take them and

some of the official language and formulas literally, and are impressed

by the apparent meaning of its symbolism, it is quite capable of becom

ing a real invisible government, pro

tecting its members.from the law and

striking powerfully and with im

munity from the dark. It seems that General Forrest and his associates

in 1869 had good reason ta destroy

such an organization the moment

their desperate emergency passed.

The great present safeguard the

reason why all these evils are mostly inherent and only partly actual is in the leadership and control. The

danger must remain until the organi

zation itself is changed, from see

ing many Klansmen I know' that a

very targe proportion have Joined in

spite of these features of the Klan,

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WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 5. Miss

Helen May Martin of this city, deaf and blind, surpasses the famous

Helen Keller in that she not only

does the things Miss Keller does, but

also plays the piano, a feat never

accomplished by Miss Keller.

Music comes to her. Miss Martin

says,- a a harmony of vibrations traveling from the piano pedals through her highly sensitized feet

and legs. A wrong note produces

a discord in these vibrations and she quickly corrects her error.

Miss Martin also is fond ot read

ing, is a proficient tatter, having

made a large number of beautiful

patterns, feeling them ont of other

materials and copying them in

threads; manicures her own finger

nans, combs her own hair and en

joys housework.

The plana repertoire ot Miss

Martin, who has been deaf and

blind since tjabybood, contains at

least fifty selections, of which her

favorites are Beethoven's "Moon

light Sonata," MacDowell's "To

Wild Rose" and "The End of a

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CHAPTER XXVIII The Gathering of the Klans. At nine o'clock the roads leading into Prairie City from all directions were jammed with traffic. Practically all the cars were headed toward one spot and their 'curtains were closely drawn. On a vacant lot just outside the city, torchlights were gleaming, white-robed figures stood

guard at the gates, and to all ap

pearances it was an Initiation cere

mony of the Klan. There was no

noise, no boisterous talking, no ex

citement as the hundreds of cars filed

through the guarded gates. The si

lent sentinels pointed the way, t!e

cars parking in a semi-cirCle.

Then the leader, County Cyclops ot

Bois d'Arc Klanton, Dr. Paul Brownson, arose and addressed the meeting. "Fellow Klansmen, we are here on a serious mission tonight," he said, "and b'efore we go further, it is well to invoke divine aid. Jt us pray." Three thousand men bowed their

heads while "the soft-voiced chaplain prayed humbly and sincerely. When

they arose, it seemed a spirit of

deeper consecration gripped them.

The Ku Klux Klan has often been

accused ot lawlessness by the unthinlyng and uninformed," the Cyclops continued, "and we are met

here tonight to refute forever that contention. Yonder in that county courthouse a jury is deciding tlie fate

of two men. In that jail the two men are incarcerated. One of them is a

fellow Klansman, a man whom we believe to be innocent of the crime with which he is charged. The other

is out bitter enemy and the enemy of everything righteous and respectable. Were we a lawless mob, led only by mad instinct, we would free

our friend and lynch our enemy. But we are not a mob ; we are an Invisi

ble Empire, composed of men dedl

cated to a high idealism and a holy

patriotism. Tonight we are going to return love for. hatred, and use oar power in the way -it should be used.

Outside that jail a mob is forming to

lvnch Rollo Cameron. For personal

reasons, I detest the man. I do not

doubt but that he would get his just

dues it be should be mobbed. (Concluded in Next Issue)

- The last installment of "The

Sounds of the Law" will appear is

' this space next week.

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you remove your visors before we

proceed further." Visitors Grow Nervous

There was no move to comply with this request and the Klansman demanded that they remove them, or

at least reveal their identity. Then

one of them is said to have remarked

that if Mr. Blank was unwilling to

go .with them, they should proceed without him, as the errand was

rather urgent ana " the hour was

growing late.

"You entered the house as Klans

men," the host said, but I am con

vinced that you are impostors,

Otherwise yon would1 be willing to reveal your identity. Now I am going to tell you that you won't leave that

door until I know who you are

The visitors protested, but when

the Klansman placed himself be

tween them and the only exit, they,

weakened and lowered their visors One of them, the member- declares

he recognized as a priest whose face is familiar to hundreds of persons in

thits city. The other, he admitted, he did not know. They left the house in utter confusion and considerable

nasie as soon as the door was opened. V . Many Snbterfnscs It Js known that many subterfuges have been employed by 'Klan enemies in an attempt to obtain "inside information" but this is the first time, so far as known here, that the Klan regalia has been sed. ' A far more common scheme em

ployed for the same purpose is that in which the spy poses as a book agent, school census enumerator or in some instances, insurance salesmen. Once inside the house, he or she adroitly turns the conversation into Klan channels and, if he has reason to suspect the "prospect" is a member or in sympathy with the organization, he does his utmost to draw out all possible information.

This method has become so well-

known and threadbare, particularly

in this community, that it no longer works. In fact, it never was very

sausiactory, juagmg ny the persis

tent efforts to carry on the

espionage.

LIVING CROSS FORMED AT

FUNERAL OF CLMER STAHL ALLIANCE, O., Jan. 5. More than

250 Klansmen formed a living cross at the grave of Elmer Stahl Sunday afternoon at the Hope cemetery.

Salem. Stahl, who died as the result

of injuries received In a Jaunting ac

cident, was one of the most, popular young men in the community, and many beautiful floral offerings were sent by friends. Among these was

a beautiful fiery cross, composed of

red carnations and white roses. The

made quartet of the Alliance Friends

church sang at the home service.

joined at all is proof of the power

of appeal of the present purposes and program. Dr. Evans is right

when he says that the strength of

the Klan today is in the ideals of the

Klansmen.

The next article, "The Crusade of

the Fiery Cross, will take up those

ideals and the purposes and policies

of the Klan as they have been re

vised by the new regime. That ar

ticle wl be based on the first dis

cussion of the Klan which Dr. Evans

has ever held with a writer outside

his own- following, and so will give

the world its first chance to see the

Klan through his thought and hopes.

She-learned to play from "point

music," printed for the blind,

which can not be bought, but may

oe Borrowed from the Congressional Library at Washington and

may be kepjt only fifteen days at a

time. From this music she has

memorized all of her selections

feeling out.' the- unfamiliar melodies on the manuscript . with her

left hand and following the key

board with her right, then reversing the process, until she is able to

combine the two.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 5. Mem

bers of the Ku Klux Klan, in a body attended the funeral of Henry Fol-

streaux, slain patrolman of Wille-

wick, held at the home of his moth.

er in Wlckliffe. Klansmen acted as

pallbearers and three others carried an American flag as the coffin was borne to the grave. Folstreaux was

shot to death on Christmas eve by a burglar whom he had caught en

tering a house.

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ST LOUIS, Jan. 5. The nroperties

of the William J. Letup Brewing Company, St Louis, which lay idle

ror almost rour years after the advent ot prohibition, are again the scene of .buzzing industrial activity.

Since the Lemp properties, ap

praised at $4,942,500, were sold at

auction June 28, 1922, for $585,000, the International Shoe Company has acquired all except one of the six

units which made up the brewing plant and has put 395,721 square feet of floor space into use to take

care of its overflow business.

The remaining unit of the Lemp

property, once a storage and malt house, was bought by Barney Grossberg for warehouse purposes.

at the auction when the International

company acquired one unit. Four units were bought in by the Lemp " interests and subsequently sold to the shoe company. The converted Lemp properties provide employment for approximately the same, number of persons as did the brewery. Between 2,000 and 2,500 persons are employed there. The shoe company's annual report to stockholders issued Monday, shows that $561,859 has been expended for improvements on the brewery property. More will be spent this year.

We take pleasure in announcing.

that a new song sheet has been composed and written entitled, "The Kreed of the Ku Klux Klan." This song will be sung in all our land,

it3 patriotic words and musical air will stir the heart of every true loyal

American and it promises to be the