Show FLOGGINGS IN INGrand ALABAMA LAID TO KLANSMEN Grand Jury Points Fin Pin Finger Fingel gel ger gerof of Shame at Minister LUVERNE Ala Oct 15 Dy By By The Associated Press Inquiry into masked violence and the workings of the he Ku Klux Klan by a a- special grand Jury ended late today with In Indictments In- In Indictments Indictments against men charged with complicity In 20 or more lashings in Crenshaw county The grand Jury also made sweeping charges that men high in the councils of the invisible empire were unworthy of trust All AU indictments except one were against members of ot the Ku Klux Klan and the Jury which spent a week in the inquiry reported that with a single exception all the mark mark- marked ed cd lashings were committed by mem mem- members members bers of the klan wearing hoods and robes ACCUSING FINGER Likening conditions in Crenshaw county to those which existed during tho th's Spanish inquisition the grand Jury pointed an accusing finger at James Esdale grand dragon of the klan in Alabama Cecil Davis Da for for- former former former mer grand titan of the southern province of the order the Rev Re F. F A. A Nails NaUS former head of tho the Georgia klavern davern of the klan and Ira B D B. B Thompson said to be cyclops of the Luverne unit of the organization BAD LEADERSHIP In its report to Circuit Judge A. A E E. Gamble who presided at the hear bear hearing bearIn log ing In the grand Jury said they were derelict to their duty as citizens in their conduct of klan affairs if they had afforded the leadership in the theIu Ku Iu Klux Klan which should have been given by them these outrages outraces never neler would have hate occurred This Tills barbaric terrorism of the rule of the mask end and lash the re report ye- ye report port continued can be attributed directly to evil e leadership in the Ku Klux Klan at war with all constituted constituted constituted authorities The grand Jury emphatically stressed the position of Esdale and Nails Nalls in directing the policies of the klan and said said- If the Rev L. L A A. Nails Nalls had been as lIS continuously engaged in serving his congregation as In serving brutal floggings to defenseless men and women and attempting to regulate morality behind a a. Ku Klux Klu Klan mask many of these crimes would not have hae been committed If he lee had been less of a lash wielder and more of a a. preacher of peace conditions In Crenshaw coun coun- county county county ty would have been better belter In conclusion the grand Jury pass pass- passed passed passed ed its work ork on to the petit Juries urging them not to forget the solemnity of the law in dealing with these cases and not to be swerved by friend or foe foe |