Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1936 — Page 22

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TERRORIST GANG MUST GO, IS CRY OF PROSECUTOR Terms Detroit Black Legion a Throwback to Era of Feudists. In the following di*patch, written exelmiveljr for the United Presi, Proeentor Duncan C. McCrea, in charge of Detrolt'a Investigation of the Black Legion, outline, hi* method* for investigating the strange vigilante band. BY DUNCAN C. M’CREA Prosecutor of Wayne County. Michigan. (Copyright 1936 by United Press) DETROIT, May 26—The Black Legion must be broken if half the stories told by its members to my office are true. I have asked for a conference between state police, Federal Department of Justice officers and authorities from Indiana and Ohio. Such a conference would be designed to break up the black-hood-ed band of motorized vigilantes which its members claim is national in scope and includes persons of high and low degree. The spreading was the outgrowth of the comparatively obscure killing of Charles Poole, shot in cold blood on the night of May 12. Claims Facts Unbelievable Facts disclosed since that date are almost unbelievable. They stagger the modern American mind. The organization—a nightmare institution—appears to be a throwback to the whipping post, mountain feuds, night riders or the Spanish Inquisition, It has no place in American life. Its insignia Is a skull and crossbones—the mark of piracy and death. The men we hold on murder warrants reveal that the country is divided into 13 each 1n command of a Black Legion leader, who answer to a supreme gen-eral-in-chief. The organization is along military lines generals, colonels sergeants and privates. Michigan apparently is one of three states in the “northwest sector.” The other two are Indiana and Ohio. The legion is strongly anti-Catho-lic, anti-Semetic and stands for its own particular brand of Americanism—the brand from the foothills that smacks of lynching. It is a dangerous institution because of the close secrecy that surrounds it. Deadly Oaths Required Its members are bound in deadly oaths to reveal no part of the inner workings of the strange lodge. So sacred do members consider these oaths that many of those arrested here last week were perfectly will ing to talk of the slaying of Poole, but remained stubbornly silent

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