Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-20 | Page 1 | Back Bloody from Lashes of Hooded Group

BACK BLOODY FROM LASHES DF HOODED GROUP Pittsburg Man Tells Sensational Sensation-al Story to Police of Philadelphia UNDERCLOTHING CAKED WITH HIS OWN GORE Attack Comes tor Assisting Woman to Get Property, He Declares PHILADELPHIA, Oct 20. A man; jwho said he was Peter McMahon. ofi Pittsburg, with his wrists scarred by la rope and his back bearing the marks I of a whip, left a northbound train! here early today and sought the pollc for medical attention He said he was Bflisod and Whipped Mondaj night a few miles outside of Trenton S- C , af-tet af-tet he had attempted to assist Miss Florence Powell, of Aiken, S. C. ob-j Jtaln a large share of the estate of her ; father who Is dividing his property among his children STIFF w 11 U BTjOOD His underclothing was stiff with j blood anil besides lash marks his body and neck bore the marks ot ropes with which he said his tormentors had attempted to hang him. McMahon. who Is 53 vears old. Bald ho believed his assailants used Ku Klux Klan method. He said he was seised when he left the train at Trenton, Tren-ton, S- C, and was driven into the country in an automobile. At thej point where hl mistreatment occurred, j he said, eight men wearing white hoods gathered around and beat him After the assault. McMahon said, he was hooded, taken to a hovse and fed. j his wounds examined by a physician ; and he was given money to buy a ticket and put on a train at Denmark. Is. C- "All the way from Denmark to i Washington, he declared, 'some on.-came on.-came Into the car occasionally and. after looking at me. retired Into an-' an-' other coach This man acted as guard I to see that I did not leavo the train.' oo