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Show STATE PROBES SLUGGING OF mm mm Ousted Church Members to Be Questioned by Investigators LAWTON, "kla ., May 2. fBy Th Associated Press). The Iawtoii pres-byterlan pres-byterlan church controversy got outside out-side the confines of the church today. County authorities took a hand A civil court of Inquiry' was under way, directed by County Attorney Riley, Ril-ey, who has undertaken to determine the Identity of thr e men who last Saturday Sat-urday night abducted the pastor, tho Rev.. Thomas J lrwm. and threw him In a dlteh outside of Lawton. half con-si con-si lous and tied and Ragged him. Tiling of charges, the county attorney attor-ney said, would depend on the outcome of the Investigation. The county attorney today prepared SUbpoenaea for about 30 persons who had be n ousted from Pastor Irwin's i hurch by the church session or executive ex-ecutive board, with the sanction of Mr. Irwin, and who have Joined the movement to have him expelled from the Lawton pulpit- Mr. Riley said all the suspended members, or antl-Irwiu facUonlstS, would be Interrogated about the abduction ab-duction and afllfed to explain his whereabouts on the night the alleged Slugging and kidnaping took place. |