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Show KLAfj FLOGGERS GIVEN 2 YEARS IMPRISONMENT i Confession by Three Members Mem-bers of Oklahoma Band Will Bo Followed by 'Prosecution of Others TULSA. Okla, Aug. 14 (By V. P.) Thre contested member et a ' flogging party who admlttad roem-bcrahtp roem-bcrahtp In tha Ku Klua Klan wara Imprisonment alter pleading (ullty to flogging cbargea. - Tha thraa man Ban F. Blkea. Grorar C. Blkei and Earl Sack all from tha Tillage of Broken Arrow, near hara, admlttad participating la tha whipping of Ban Wagner, a farmer. Wagner identified the trio, aa well aa eight other who have denied their guilt, as member of th band that whipped him. - Although Wagner was blindfolded, blind-folded, he waa able to aee through th mask of light material. All of the whlppera wore the full regalia of the Ku Kluz Klan. Wagner aald. Five others arrested wjth the three who pleaded guilty denied participation In tha whipping and will bo tried later. They ara A. M. Calloway. W1-llam W1-llam Bills, Avery Barbour, T. V. Venator and William Lewie. Three yet to be arrested, against whom Information waa filed, are KaL Benson, Disk Fisher and Harvey Har-vey Akera. Edward Croaaland. attorney for the defenaa, in pleading for clemency clem-ency for tha three who pleaded guilty, aald: "It la not thraa men who ara re-ponstbl re-ponstbl for lawlessneaa In this country. They hsve been misled and beguiled Into an Inaldloua organisation or-ganisation which taught hatred and Intolerance and Induced Ita members to use tba lash."- Tha three men when In oaurt were garbed tn vsralla and blue shirts and had th appearance of laborers la-borers ' Sentencing of Back and the Slkee brother climaxed the tenth day of military rule Imposed on Tulsa by Governor J. C. Walton because of tha many whipping which had been unpuntehed. . - Information against those arrested arrest-ed - wer filed by Balrd, adjutant general of Omaha. The three men aentenced aigned confessions, according ac-cording to Markham, admitting their guilt and Implicating tha other oth-er under arrest; - I Immediately after the trio was entenced by W. B. Wllllama. district dis-trict Judge, they were releaeed by the eherllf to military authorities and will be held under guard by the troops. .... |