Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-03 | Page 6 | Names of Klan Lashers Given

NAMES OF KLAN LASHERS GIVEN OIVEN I ONEONTA Ala Aug Au 3 By 3 By The Associated A. A Press The The Ku Klux Klan 1111 was definitely identified with ith the flogging of ot Jeff Calloway Galloway today by John Hughes who admitted on the witness stand that he was I one of a number of Klansmen who oho took Cal Cal- Calloway Calloway loway from a church sen service Ice several weeks ago bound him to a tree and whipped him firm i into unconsciousness n r Hughes was t the first fir witness called today too a in ln the trial of Eugene Eucene Doss D ss one of the seven men under indictment for the whipping of the Oneonta farm youth Under questioning by Attorney Gen Gen- General General General eral Charlie C C. C McCall of Alabama who is t personally prosecuting Doss Dos Hughes testified that he was a mem mem- member member member ber of the Tarrant City klavern of ot the klan He Ha gave the names of several members of the party which went to Antioch church at Oneonta clothed in robes and masks and end Calloway Galloway He said the automobile in which Galloway Calloway was taken to the we woods where he was flogged ed was driven by Doss and that the men in the car wore Ku Klux Klan costumes At a n subsequent meeting of this klan unit Hughes said he had been cau cau- cautioned cautioned cautioned by Doss to keep his hla mouth shut hut about the trip to Antioch church