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Show SHERIFF WHO JOINS KLAN IS DISMISSED BEAUMONT, Texas. June 9 Tom J Garner, sheriff of Jefferson county, 1 was found guilty of official misconduct miscon-duct and ordered removed from oflc In an instructed verdht returned by a Jury In district court here today. Judge Robert G. Street. In Instructing Instruct-ing for the verdict said the fact that the officer h id become a T hr- Ku Klux ilan was In coA. to the oath he took as shcrWh l !'..! -i.e -herlff protestedj was nothing In the Ku Kluxl in conflict with the duties jB ( but the court declared the 01 klan was In effect to "decel ' nornnt and unwary" The Ol j appealed, counsel s;aid. .J ( |