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Show 1 THE OGDEN t rn 'if IWf 'Wft 1 ( r3 if ft '4 ? 2 ' tl H 1 h M if M ff IHi tp IIW S Rich Texas Physician Was Hurled Like a Huge, Grotesque and Crippled Bird Into the Shouting, Laughing Theatre Crowd Hands Tied Be- hind the Him, Physician Was Dragged Out of the Car by tho Ku KIux, ih a J f yi TFiaf Happened in the Lonely Woods Before the Automobile. - M f-- r 1 Suave, Well Dressed Strangers Politely Escorted Dr. Paul Into the Waiting v. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1921. R n fTKe , STANDARD-EXAMINE- 4,- - 7: p; o BEAUMONT, Texas. June 10. NH evening late in May Dr. J. S. taul, a wealthy physician of Beau- mont, sat alone in his luxuriously digniflad offices near the bustling centre of the city. He had dismissed his assistants and attendants an hour before. Out In his expensive private sanatorium, filled g with patients, there was wonto as what der appointment could be important enough to keep Dr. Paul from his high-payin- regular nightly visit. That the physician was expecting some one was certain. He looked up impatiently as the clock struck quarter of eight, and walked over to the window, gazing down npon the hurrying theatregolnrg erowds. A limousine drew quickly up to the curb. Two men slipped but, glanced up at the physician and walked briskly through the entrance to the building. A few. minutes later they reappeared. With them was Dr. Paul, erect, the perfect type of the successful professional man, and to the casual observer full fifteen years younger than xthe fifty-fivyears which the family Bible of the Pauls, one of the oldest and proudest of Southern families, declared him to be. .He was talking animatedly to his companions, whose faces were as strange to those who itood aiide to let them pan as the physician's was familiar to them, The two opened the limousine door deferentially; then followed Dr. Paul within. The car rolled quickly away. The city clock struck eight. Three hours later, Just as It was striking eleven, the same limousine tolled past the Corner of Pearl and Crockett streets, several blocks away from Dr. Paul's office and broad-shouldere- d, e In the heart of the theatre district. It Bldwed up. A door abruptly opened, and out into the street, among the crowd, was hurled a grotesque figure. It was feathered like a gigantic bird. Black and white plumage covered it fantastically, sticking out in all directions, some of the: feathers fiat, some heckled like the ruffs of fighting cocks. And the arms and legs were those ol eome ludi crous feathered creature of fable! Only a glimpse did those closest to the automobile get before it sped away. They eaw within it several figures whose faces jWere Covered with the white masks and on jWhbse heads were the high, conical white helmets of the Ku Klux Klan! The gtotesque figure that had been tossed out arose, shakily; Women shrieked and pushed their way back through the throngs in quick, panic fear. Then, as the onlookers realized whatit was that stood before them, roars of laughter arose and shouts of "Tar and feathers! Tar and feathers!" Suddenly the mocking laughter was etilled. There was an incredulous silence. "It's Dr. Paul!" someone cried. Y It was pr. Paul. The eminent physician, man of wealth and position, son of a proud " old Southern family of had been ignominiously tarred and feathered. Of course it is not known whether Dr. "Paul's- captors were real Ku Klux Klans-me- n or as has often happened, persons not affiliated with the organization, but. masquerading under the easily counterfeited and terrifying costumes of the Order"fire-eaters,- - - But what had Dr. Paul done to incur such punishment? And what had happened in those three hours between the time he had stepped ; fI ! . , O A. r.v. . .. " jauntily into the waiting car ' t and the time he had been : t ;r ft hurled out of it, the butt of . v . i r -- rNVI i the ridicule of his townsfolk? All this can now be told. At half past six o'clock that same evening the "star" re --' V', f Ti jlJ porter on each of the two reBeaumont newspapers ceived anonymous notes telling them that a ''good news story" would be theirs if they wanted "to take a little ride in an automobile." They were told to be "at the corner of Main and Crockett streets and to get into an Pearl and Crockett Streets in Beaumont, Where Dr. Paul Was Thrown automobile which will pass Out to Face the Ridicule of the Theatre Crowds. at precisely seven thirty o'clock and which will have the left door of the tbnneau open.1 you are watching. And be sure you get It the thongs of which ended In fmall leal The reporters presented themselies at straight when you write your stories or points. The doctor glared around at his Judges. the corner a few" minutes' ahead of time. you may find something unpleasant hap"I know three or four of you cuned Neither at that moment knew that the pening to you." w that tbty were t cowards!" he exclaimed. "Go ahead with The reporter! other was on the same errand, but each figured that he could get away from the the edge of a little clearing;. All around your farce, but warn you now that there other by making a dlre l&to the ear when them stood, like leatlneli, the ranxi of win bs a day of reckoning for you." the tree trunki. The forest was now alit came along. They lathed his hands to a tree, and the most no was life dark. fell upon his back. There of lash had finished Before the City Hall clock anysign where. The pair stood in the gloom, keenAt the first blow of the whlp the phythe half hour stroke a large limousine came swiftly up Main street. It swerved est curiosity struggling with the natural sician cried out, bo it Is said: "If 1 am over to the corner of Crockett, and as It depression which the surroundings and the guilty of what you charge, there are others in Beaumont who are guilty as I and aid so the left door flew open. The two dived circumstances could not fall to bring. In about ten minutes two other closed guiltier." for it together, fell within, and before they The masked men made no answer, the could get up the car started forward with cars came through the winding road. Out one each a sudden Jerk and passed swiftly out a of wearing whipper continuing to wield the lash until stepped eight men, side street toward the outskirts of the city. the vlsored conical white helmet-masand tho blood streamed down the naked back When the two men recovered from tholr the white, shrouding cloaks which, as they and the body went limp. At this point the surprise they found the door shut and threw them open, showed beneath the spokesman again stepped out, crying, "That locked. Looking out through the glass at same blue and shapeless denim garments la enough no more of that!" And the man with tho cato'-n!tails the chauffeur they saw that his head was that the watchers wore. From the second while etlll arms his wrre raised covered with a curious pointed cowl, while limousine came four more men masked stopped a cloak draped his shoulders. The car was like the Ku Klux and four whose faces to strike again tho fainting Tlctim. "How's that tar?" anked one At the were uncovered. Three of these latter going at great speed. masks. They knocked at the window, calling out the reporters did not recognize. "All right," came the answer. "Soft But the fourth, to their amazement, was to the driver to stop. He turned his head and they saw that he was masked. He Dr. J. S. Paul. enough to etlck, but not hot enough to slowed down for a moment. The hands of the physician were tied. hurt much." The reporters, whose attention had been "Don't you speak unless you are spoken He stood, defiant and silent, under the rays to," he said in a voice that they did not of flashlights thrown upon him by four of absorbed by the scene before them, turned. the masks. He did not move nor did he A little distance away they saw a small recognize. "No harm is coming to you unless you bring it on yourselves." protest as his clothes were stripped from fire, over which hung on forked sticks a He then turned and drove on. him down to his underdrawers. When he huge poL A cowled figure waa standing At the edge of a thick forest, several was thus far undressed the legs of the latbeside It. stirring the contents. He lifted miles away, the car stopped. The chaufoff short, leaving the stick and the soft tar rolled down It. feur leaped from his seat and ordered the ter garments were cut Another mask wentto him and the two two reporters out of the car. He produced him little more than a girdle. towels and bound their eyes tightly. He carried the steaming kettle over to where saw another figure Now, the watchers in Dr. helped them back into the limousine, inthe of darkness, holding Paul, groaning but still defiant, stood step out structing them not to touch the bandages. his hand a paper. From this paper he erect between two of the masqueraders. After about a quarter of an hour of more read a list of alleged offenses charged by As the physician saw the kettle and riding through winding roads the car was the Ku Klux against the physician. These realized The of medicine Its purpose he made a mighty bandand driver took the again stopped. related to illegal practice ages from their eyes and gave them suits surgery upon certain women of Beaumont. effort to break aVay. It was unsucctfuL of blue overalls and told them to put them In two or three cases the death of the pa- Another of the masked men produced on. Wonderingly they did so. They were tient was charged to'hlm. He was further broom it in the tar and with it then handed conical shaped hoods, the denounced as "a slayer of unborn babies." plastereddipped a wide streak across the doctor! ends of which fell over their shoulders and "These are . the crimes of which you chest. He winced, but remained silent. which completely masked their faces. have been found guilty at the councils of Up and down, until from neck to waist the The reporters recognized these as the the Klan," said the spokesman. "Whtt front of his body was a thick coat of the typical headdresses of the Ku Klux. bave you to say before sentence Is passed sticky black stuff, he plied the brush. "All that we want of you is to see what upon you?" "Let It cool off some for the back," or goes on and to make a careful report of it As he finished speaking there stepped dered the leader. "It's pretty raw. Lift for your papers," said their guide. "Don't out of the shadows another masked man, up his Arms and give him some good daubs miss anything and don't say a word while- who held in his hand a talis, under the pits Cx Sttat SMxfcta Smk4, CO ISr InUruAUonl Titur Smio. Xao. -- fe . , c t.v r 'ill . . e , s . ..'. --- I j- .: of the Tarand Feathering of Dr. S. C. Paul, of Beaumont, Texat, In the Wooda Outside the City, by Afasfctd Men Dretaed Like the ' here." he tald. indicating the places. Great Ku Klux. handfuls of feathers were picked up and (Drawn from the De thrift Into the tar at thete spots. Longer Mcrxptton by an Eye one, wero stuck here and therm. At last A - Tvvy r ,- Photo-Diagra- m IVifnes. - i jT.f'l--Jf- e J down at the corner of Pearl and Crockett Stay there for a while." The automobile swung Into the city. Pearl and Crockett streets are la the heart of the theitre district, and at the hour that the reporters reached It the places of amusement hid Juit begun to let out. The streets were thronged with people. As thty approached the corner the autoactUt'i two Jumrcd ' mm n cat-o'-nin- e The reporter! felt thtcalTe eaazht by the arms. They were tnruil back into the car In which they fca4 eosae; the doors wre locked upon thera, and their driver Jumped into his Seat and drote awajj with them. They ran for an hour or more clrcultouily through the woods and were teen ordered to remove their dUguliei, -This Un't all OTer yet.-- their masked guide told thera. "You are going to be ptt ttreets. k - a Imps. X . phyalcian rtood, covered with them. In the gloom of the toreit, with the hooded and maiked figures about him. he al like bird snared by some fabled half-huma- iiilli " -- How Dr. Paul Appeared In HU Sticky, Feathered Coating When Releaicd. asked "Going to take off hii drawers th broom wiflder. "No," answered the spokesman; "Just cover them up." The tar was daubed thick about the thighs, covering the linen and fining U to the doctor's body. Then the legs and feet were covered, and finally the arms and the bleeding back. Dr. Paul cow looked like a man covered from chin to to with black plaster. The feather." commanded the leader. An enormous sack filled with feathers was carried la from one of the cars and laid beside him. and Then, adroitly. Dr. Paul was trlrpedKlins-man, another fell among them. Instantly his to roll among body gloved, bcpia physician was the feathers. V"hea the" was like nothing he feet his to dragged but ludicrous, eten human, grotesque, o hideous eluliterly there was sometSlng In the sight that tbe reporters felt no desire to laugh. ,, The leader eyes him critically. and here and hero hare little Looks a slovii tpttl out. B3W& Lzi Ui Within five minutes anethtr cloied Uv oujlne came racing up to the terser. And then followed the scans described at the beginning cf this story. Ft cm ths crowd csms at lilt itvtrai of Dr. Paul's friendi, who called a palling automobile and carried him into It an rode quickly away. Everybody bo kaa tTer worn a porous planter knows how painful and difficult they are to get off. The porous plaster if about six Inches by six Inches, or thirty six square Inches. pV. Paul weighs about Its pounds, and o,by the tables, hat about I.00& square Inches of exterior cuticle. Al lowing 200 squafe Inches for the heal acl parts of the neck untouched by the tar, this glres I.S90 square Inches cf suSerttg, ' as atainit the thlrty-elof the porous an iccredltle digrte of torture la plaster the rtmoTirg. c2 Also there Is nothing 10 hard to as tar, and its combination with feathers makes It doubly difficult to remove. Every little hair on the body provides excruciating agony as It Is pulled. The procisi cf square Inches must cleaning of the M have been torture. Indeed. For two days Dr. Paul desled himself to his friends and patients while.no doubt, the cleaning process was going on. He made no complaint to lbs police. On the iMrd day he disappeared front Beaumont, wfciea has been his home for nearly twenty years, and his present whereabouts are knows to x gt cone there. By what plea or by what method the three masked men induced Dr. Paul to get Into the aufxmoblle remains a aecrat. Tha three unmaiked men wire utter itraertrt aid. following the custom of ths eld Klan, came from some distant part of the EUU probably. Curiously, the aathbhtlei ef Beaumont are parslTe In the matter. They take tho attitude that "Dr. Paul brought his punlph rntut upon himself." |