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Show ' TULS.1 FACES COIL LAW OeilPPIfIG Oklahoma Governor Accuses Ac-cuses Police of Part in Abduction of Man Suspected Sus-pected of . Bootlegging S) ' ' i TULSA.' Okla, Aug. ' 11. Tulsa faceC a desperate threat of martial law today as tha result of another kidnaping; and flogging marked agalnat. th record last night. Whether atate actios would follow fol-low tha latest rase ef mob activity ac-tivity waa expected to depend upon the explanations made to Governor Gover-nor J. C. Walton by local authority' authori-ty' Informed of tha , abduction last night," tha governor Immediately Immedi-ately telephoned ' Police Chief Reee Mo ran and advised bias: that be had beard chargea that th nolle no-lle were Involved In the affair. ' Denial 'was msde by Chief afo-ran afo-ran that tha polio had connived In th kidnaping. I Laat nlght'a mob victim was Nathan Hantman. Hanunaa declared at toe hospital, hospi-tal, where he waa taken, that the polloo came to hla rooming houee early laat night and after searching search-ing th place took him to tha station. -Thar I think th polio held me long enough to give my abduc-tora abduc-tora a chance to Identify me on the streets anywhere they might see me." h charged. Then be aald be was released and, atartlng to walk home, waa aelxed wltbia a block of the station. sta-tion. Hantmaif aald befor applying the lash hla captoro queetloned him about tha aale of narcotic land whisky. He said b told th i man h knew nothing1 about th I aueatlone aakd him. MACON MtRCHANT ' CRUELLY -BEATEN, MACON, 04V, Auv. fl (By IT. P.) H. K. Bobo, marchant, waa In a art ous condition today foltowinff a bruetl t logging at tha handa of an unmasked band. Bobo and thraa othar whit parsons par-sons wera kidnaped and beatm by tha band, kcoofdina; to raporta to polica, Bobo, a atorakaapar In a negro aattlamante walked back to Maoon from tha scenaof tha Hogging, hla back lacaratad and blaadlnff from tha laahlnff. dn of tha othar allatad Ylc-tlrraa, Ylc-tlrraa, OUla Parry, waa confined to Ma bad and physicians aald he had been, whipped severely. |