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Show KLAN CENSURED BY GRAND JURY Lawless Actions in Oil Fields of California Cited in Report T:AKFRSFlEkD, Calif. May 20 I In LtS first report sinco it began ln-I ln-I quiring into the recent activities of masked night riders In the central California oil fields, the Kern county grand Jurv today delivered a strong protest against the Ku Klux Klan. Members of thla body nre accused of taking the law Into thoir own hand, the organisation Itself Is termed in-sidi-iiis" and the 'Hon is made that domestic troubles. Jealousies and ui her evidence of malice and hati .m at the bottom of Its assumptions of j . . rnmental authority. The report declares that the klan gave Its "victim no chance to defend himself as only one side of the case was heard." It calls on public officials who are members of the klan to repudiate it openly or suffer removal from office, and It makes a specific charge that the klan Is political In character, citing cit-ing the evidence on which it bases this conclusion In somo detail UP to Friday the grand Jury had returned five Indictments as a result of its Inquiry. The report follows In part. "Testimony shows that the members of this organization have taken the law into their own hands. They have forced citizens to some isolated spoi, have suspended their victims With ropes around the ne k, Hogged them With ropes, tarred and feathered them, assaulted them with gun and have warned them to leave the county under un-der threat of death. The evidence shows that no Investigation was made of the truth of any charges, the victim vic-tim being given no chance whatever to defend himself." included in the grand Jury's report is a letter sent from the Bakersfield klan to W, &'. Coburn, grand goblin of the Pacific domain, at L.os Angeles, An-geles, in which a protest Is made against activities of the Taft klan as likely t. hrlnp discredit on all klansmen and to result In prosecution for those directly involved. rr |