Show THREE T H R E E FLOGGED FLOODED BY MASKED MEN ALABAMA STATE TAKES NOTICE One of Victims Is Ts Woman Whipped With Fan Belt ANOTHER ORPHAN Youth Seized When Wild He Is Riding With Strange Girls BIRMINGHAM Ala July 11 my By By ByThe The Associated Press Coincident with the announcement from Mont Mont- Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery gomery last night that a bill would be ba Introduced In the stats legislature to ban wearing rearing of masks In the state of ot Alabama for or other than legitimate amusement purposes the Birmingham ham Herald Age revealed another case of flogging by masked and robed men menthe the third in Alabama within two v weeks weeks It t was at these th se floggings that the proposed bill vs was v al m d. d YOUTH FLOGGED The Herald Age-Herald today quoted Es- Es Eston Eston Eston ton Murchison 17 of Bessemer Ala as saying that on the night of June 26 he was forcibly taken from an au automobile au- au automobile automobile in which he and nd another youth were riding with two strange girls and was as severely whipped by five fhe men who wore ore hoods and masks The girls said Murchison were taken home by the masked men risen and Murchison expressed the be belief be- be belief lief that they had been maneu ered into his company that there might be some excuse for tor whipping him He knew of no other reason and stat stat- stated stated stated ed that Ernest his 18 18 16 j old ear companion was not mo mo- mo- mo tested OMAN WO SHIPPED State law officers have arrived ed in Florence Colbert county to investigate gate the whipping last week of Mrs Bertha A. A Slay 23 28 years ears old by men likewise masked and als also wearing robes Mrs Slay said th the themen men risen entered her home tied her hus bus husband band and sister to their beds and took too her into the back yard wh Vh where re an ef effort ef- ef effort fort fot was made to force her ber to confess to some scandal scan Refusing she was repeatedly lashed with something that felt like th the fan belt of an automobile Here too the question of identification was wa uncertain Ms Ma Slay said she did no noat not at first report the flogging because of threats as to what would result fo for her If it she did didAt At Oneonta in a special session o of Blount county circuit court a gran grand jury was to be bc drawn n to investigate In the flogging last Wednesday of Jeff Calloway Galloway old 19 orphan of One One- Oneonta Oneonta onta Men wearing masks and robes robe also figured in this flogging which was vas ordered investigated by Governor Bibb Graves Graces when then the facts first bj- bj b came known In none of the flogging cases have hare arrests been b en made thus far |