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Show FIFTH INDICTMENT IN K. K. K. INQUIRY i BAKERSPIELP. Calif. May IS Another Indictment, the fifth since the Kern county grand Jurj began Its inquiry Into night rider activities in the centra' California oil fields was returned hero today . It was against I John H Vitallc. snid to be a member i of the Taft Man of the Ku KIux Klan. j Vitalle was charged with aasaullj on two counts and with assault with Intt-nt to commit murder In connec-l lion with an attack on Lr lwight R Mason of Taft, who wa beaten and hanged until he was unconscious. Vitalle was in the county Jail, the bail of $20,000 he put up last week whe narrestcd on an assault charge, not holding good in the case of the Indictment. |