Show I WITNESS MESS DESCRIBES DESCRIBES THREAT II I I TO CLEAN OUT WHOLE FAMILY Regretted Talk When He Learned Listener Was Relative of Daniel Investigators of Hooded Mob Slayings Are Told by Victim Victims Victim's IS Kin La Jan 19 1 By By The Associated Pres Pre IIII William J Mc- Mc McDonald Mc Donald 60 brother in of J L 1 Daniel father tather of oC Watt att Daniel D ho es ho T F E Richard a was seas ner here August Au 24 and whom hol mutilated Med hodl hodi 8 stoic wie found In Leke Ike l ik Ln La LaFourche last month at nt the open hearing hen ring Into Inlo the activities attic or of masked men In Morehouse parish to- to today to today day stay that Jap Jap Jones had told him the whole hole damned Denial Daniel 1 famil be b cleaned Iel ned out e the ed alleged attempt to assassinate Dr B BM BM M C McKoin was settled McDonald McDonad sale said ald Jones did not knot knol he be was seas related to the Daniel fancily an and that otter after ho he h became aware a of it Ithe lee he asked him to forget It Jones Jonos declared Vo e are goIng to clean elcan out cut the whole tole damned fa mil before Ihl this tiling thing Is settled d McDonald said lIe He did not seem to tol that Ia I a was seas related d to the tam II I called his hand and thel ho he told me I need not get so o mad about it I told him hint Dr seas as ne never cr shot at Do iou ou know an au thins thIng about the tho thoI I Yes sIr all I knew It an hour after it H happened You see Ree ee I was seas In Bo- Bo Bonita nita Bo-nita nita at the time You could hear all nil about It it except they thy didn t figure out the he right parties I et Lets Its has ha hav hae e 0 some more moro ot of cc what hat hat 3 ou heard Well act after r the l Jim Harp p nd nd I got cot to talking In his but but- butcher butcher butcher cher shop hop about out the th end and andlee n nhe he lee told me they should have O killed them hens the th night they caught Daniel Andrens and on the th road and they would not have had bed hadan h ant an more trouble CeltiC them The Tho Gallion road I occurred Au- Au August August cust Au-cust gust 17 Jim Harp told ou that Yes Tes I let it b bo be leno known lenon n to him hues hose ho much I approved d of It and I added a few Cew other words to make it more bindIng DISCLAIMS UIS P fiT l T B Ti Pratt Prat Sr the next se 1 testified to ha having basing Ing attend attended 1 the th bar bar becu and baseball same game In Basil bar I on August Aug 24 Owner of ot a II sawmill sass taw I near Bastrop Pratt was seas Que questioned at length about the tho plant and who re- re resided resided rc sided In Its Pratt admitted he was seas a klansman klan man but said he did lid I not h hear ar any discussion 0 to the and never loser had under undertaken taken to regulate the conduct of or thee the people In Mer Ier Rouge Henry leery Jones who ho 11 lives Ilses es near Das Bat trop trop Bas mop said he formerly was seas cd hy by the Southern Carbon e company at Ep ker and he knew many of the ola es 00 lie II was seas Interrogated concerning the disappearance of Harold thel timekeeper at the pleat plant who ho was seas rc 1 re- re reported ported to ha lease have e been and later to ha hav hase e escaped from his cap- cap andI tors captors I Did Did ou know Harold T eger strom I I pur o 0 ov DISGUISE DI Ye Yes Yes he hC h left lert the th plant on Friday I I night and nd he came to m mi ma hou house on onI I Sunday evenIng I was seas on the th baCI bac porch when I heard some one In the lee leehouse I house hous I found In the front He Ito said he had lead been II a great deal by United States detec detec- detectives I tl uses tives es about tho He 1 H said taid that on t night ht a man male called him bins out of or the office and told him lie he to talk with him She Ilia he took him bins to an automobile which he hebald said bald had men Inside and Jeo he heIgre grass suspicious and brok broke away assay and andIan andi tan Ian an That Iq Is the th reason he lie gase ga me for Cor hiding out He changed chanced clothes clotho put I on oil my hat hoes shoes hoes and 0 Ito to change chango his Identity and left In tao 11 hours I Ha Have Hae e ou received anything from him Yes Ye I got my watch deh which schick I loaned him hint because his at watch natch h had initials It Jt carne came In the th mall Before DeCore he left leCt he ho gate cave ga e me his lilt watch atch to besent besent be bo sent ent to his brother and some sonic keS hes to tobo tobe tobo bo be sent cent to the carbon plant It It appeared to lou sou ho lee was seas as trying to make his and was seas trying to shiel hiel dills dItis Identity I CLO rilEs DI R I II Jones saId ald re left Ills clothes at his home but they later I disappeared and be b assumed strom strom had returned during the ab- ab absence absence ab absence sence of his wife He and himself at a 0 picture show In B strop estrop and got cot them This was seas a week eek ago apo last la t after aCter the tho hearing had begun he said ald Asked If It he knew where strom now Is Jon Jones s saId ald he h did not ino knots but thought the man V Q 05 all all right 1 Where was SeaS the tho watch atch mailed front Crom r I Somewhere in the US U S was writ writ ten on the tho bo boi boc above three thre tao cent two I reeds received eel ed It about January S Did ion OU lend him sorrie sone money I los ves l s 40 10 tO I have hase not been 1111 Paid backS bach n |