Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 14

VANCOUVER DAILY WORLD The Newspaper of the Ilomc THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 1923 14 ROBED PARISH AS MOB MURDER IS TERROR GRIPS WHERE TROUBLE IS FEARED WHEN HEARING COMMENCES' STATE TROOP CI VKD FORCED TO TELLS HOW BONES WERE PARISH LEADER JAIL AT BASTROP, LA. LEAVE SCENE FED INTO TORTURE PRESS MAY FACE TRIAL 1 I i i'l fill tJvf 1 i fee Jt'a frk I ty to The village of Mer Uouirc, Louisiana, where l' W. Daniel, war liero, and T. F.

Uiehards, his friend, wfre allegedly fed into a death niaehine like a paper rcss hy members of a hooded mub on Aug. 11)21 Jnfo tins jail whs iiin.un i.imiru,, nw man accused after 'tie' state impnry riding Mer Rouge, started lliis year. Slate troops ii rr guarding it. Prosecution official claim it may contain m.uiy I ho present far in: l.i Among no hun drcdii undrr a.s bring implicated in tbo death of tlin two mn as well as otlior atrocities is Capt. J.

K. Kkip worth, above, parish leader. SEEK'S LAWS VENGEANCE FOR MURDER OF HIS SON A shinbler went irv masked moh murder open hearing at P.astrop, when the bones of F. Watt Daniel and Thomas F. liiehards were exhibited as evidence.

Dr. YV. Duval, at, left, and Dr. .1. A.

Lanl'ord, pathologists, are cxplaininr how the lames were broken, in a torture machine, while Judge Fred M. Odoni looks on from extreme right. 1 1 iv HatiiilOm who w.i.s Hrr( tl hnorh'd lurii lo leavi' M' KotiKe, lias re. tiinii'd and proliahly will Irsli lv at tin llastrnp open iear WHERE GHASTLY TALE OF OUTRAGE TO BE SCENE OF HUMAN The courthouse at lia.strop, where Krand jury will prohe 1110b murders. Uelow, tlio niurdend men, 1'.

Walt Daniel at left and 'I'lioinas S. ards, at risht. Above, Capt. J. K.

Skipworth, at left, and in 1). McKoin, at right. Wp Oil It Coiirlroom at llaslrop. where witnesses under alleged threat of Ku Klux Klan reprisals told of the slaying of Daniel and Kiehards. John Nettles, who found the bodies after a charge of dynamite bad blown tlietn from where they had been sunk in bake a Foiirehe, is on the witness stand at the left and F.

L. (Mum is on the bench. I iit 1 1 I Ins second grand jury probe is ov er not a farm can be sold and terror reigns at Rouge and Pastrop. Where a grand jury are again probing mob murders. This was the scene of tins l'irt, iiniiiry after dynamite blew up bodies to be those of Daniel and Kiehards.

The second open hearing has already commenced, but. the sensational evidence as to Ku Klux Klan methods has not yet been presented as fully as it is expected to be. SENDS TROOPS TO DOWN KU KLUX 'KLAN WIDOW OF MURDERED MAN JS GIVEN WORK IN GARAGE AVith this tense and absorbed luuk, ,1. Daniel, Mer Roiifje, planter, sat in the front row of the first probe at the Bastrop courthouse and listened to evidence at llie inquiry into the murder of his son, Watt Daniel, and the latter's friend, Thomas V. liiehards, the hands of a hooded mob.

1 'l 11 P.wi.lU'Ww ii.j til ijVi GREAT DRAMA AT PROBE Ous Calhoun, MorPhou. rar.sh deputy sheriff, may rx nrrrsted as a result uf the on.n hearire a.t Bastrop. DOC" MeKOlN AS A GOOD FELLOW AT BASTROP PROBE the spectators at the prelim IS BEING TOLD 1 red Cirpenfr. sheriff of rarifh. I.a..

may ho irr prachrd after Invcstic a lion his been completr i of the lie at Mt Kouce of two men by a hooded mob. I TO CONDUCT MURDER TRIAL 1 Stale Senator Howard Warren, i dircvrport, bas snr ci t'ded St. Clair Adams, resigned, as special prosecutor in the state's investigation of hooded mob murders in M'jr Kousc, La. WITNESS IS KIDNAPPED Ibu old Tergerstn.ini, in. ail imporlanl slate witness in th' Mer ItoiiKC prosecution ol two murders i nmiiilttod by masked limbs, has disappeared and is believed to have been kidnapped.

IS MAYOR OF MER ROUGE ivor Rohprt Dad present hrd of the vtllajre povrrn mrnt of Mr Knu.cr, sue i r.vS'ir i 1 ir. ii. Jl. McKoin, fx may or. tit I i vA'A At fawJbJt FRISK THOSE WHO TESTIFY 4 it sjc W'; h1 ho altend the probe el 1 lie IMI11.

1' 111 I I l.a.. ill ho c.irefiiltv "frisk" "1" ill i' 1 Ts hy ih pnl slii'i'il Is bclni'i: Ihev clilir lie coini reeilt al llastriip. Scene at lii: I trial. MX, 'W. i i SfV TYKMIV nt Th'? l.t ripc: in ot' lnji I'uuMii, Jct'f liu.int.lU fltit.

1 sJ I i2 The family of Thomas Richards. Left to right: Mrs. Richards, the widow; Vera, her daughter: Leota. in foreground, another daughter; Mrs. ('.

(iarrixm. Kiehards' mother, and (iraee (farrison, Richards' half sister. Mrs. Richards has taken a job in the garage where Richards was employed to support herself and family. tiovernor .1.

M. 1 arU' at l'lglit, leaving Orleans court building with his attorney, after placing in the hands of the attorney general's department evidence in the Mer Rouge case. He startled the country in December by ordering state troops to guard the investigators at Pastrop. ft id man at the riudit shakiiv.r loi iner m.ivor his seizure at P.all itimiv and to Louisiana to eju, uhat to t(. T.

Walmrh of Nov rn. of tho I'au l.c 'mi r.m lU a ivVl HurerliLor th. hturoiir. 't is 1 PS Tbe jatmly, nattily dri'ssed hands with his friends is Dr. of Mer Ivouse, who.

after release, voluntarily reiunied iuformatiou lie could relatiw O. O. Pkipirprth. ''o f'i 1 organized the l''i cha.rse'1 with i I the uiuiucia. Si I vN4L tfxt J4 i Adorns.

farmer pi "s' i ut.e' in tl hcti 40 implualed in the murders. ''i Attorney General A. V. Coco of Louisiana, i. heading the nrobe at Kouce..