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Show : SHERIFF IN TEXAS FOUND GUILTY OF JOINING KUKLUXER? BEAUMONT, Teg" June . Tom Itlarner. sheriff of Jefferson county, waa found guilty of official mtacon-dilrt mtacon-dilrt and ordered removed from of-I of-I flee. In ail Instructed verdict returned M by a Jury In district court here to-r to-r day. Judge Robert o. Htreet, In Instruct-f Instruct-f Ing for the verdlrt, siild the fact that y the officer had become a member of the Ku Klux klan waa In contravention contraven-tion to the oath he took as sheriff. ' Counsel for thes heliff prntented M that Ih rc was nothing In th Ku Klux , : klan oath In conflict with tha duties I of a sheriff. Iiul I lie court declared ' the oath of the klan waa In affect In I "deceive th Ignorant and unwary." The cose will be appealed, counsel I said. i |