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Show - - .-it , . " i-' J- rTT..H JURY ACQUITS K. K. K. RAIDERS Thirty-five Coast Men Es-cape Es-cape Charges in Superior Supe-rior Court LOS ANGELES. Calif . Aug 26 Thirty-five alleged members of the Kui 1 Klux Klan were free today, a jury which tried th'uii on felony charges' I growing out of tne Inglewood mid of April 22 last, having acquitted them 1 riday night after a little more than three hours of xctUa deliberation nl- ) though It had ben out five hours and ten minutes 1 Bach of the defendants had been, Indicted on two counts Of kidnap-; Inf, two of false Imprisonment and one of assault with a deadly weapon and all had been under a total uondl of $45,000. They were accused of having raid-1 ed the home and bonded winery ofi Fidel and Matlas Blduayen, al lngie-j wood, a suburb, seized the men as al- 1 leged bootleggers and turned them, loose after officials had refused to lock them up in the raid M B Mosher, lngU-- (rood constable, was killed and his' Bdn, Walter E Mosher. n deputy cor. stable ami Leonard Ruegg, a deputy sheriff were wounded. TWO BSC Pi: ThlAL According t. evidence brought out the Mosh.-r inquest and at the trlul, the raid was planned at a meeting meet-ing hi the Ku Jv'lux Klan In Ingle-1 wood. (Origlnb.1l) there were 37 defendants but a mistrial was declared In the lease of Nathan A Piker, alleged leader lead-er and former kleagle: w ho became III In court and the case against another an-other was dismissed bei ause of lain of evidence. The d. ten. Ian-. Included W'. S. Co bum, former grand goblin of the klan's Pacific domain, and G. W Price, king kl eagle for California. After the verdict had been returned return-ed and demonstrations of defendants j and ih.ir frlen ls bad ended Price Issued .1 statement declaring the pleas-ire pleas-ire of himself and the other defendants defend-ants In their aeqidttal uddlng "1 1 11 r organization will continue to he I i vv a biding, as hefore." DEP1 1 X I MPI tES GUN. Matiasand F'tdel Klduayt n brothers tcpllfled a group of men entered their house without warning seized and bound them and carried ihem to two linlice 'it it Ions nt rnch fit which thr- authorities In charge refused to lock them up. Raiders who testified swore thc v.. re admitted to the Blduayen house and sold intoxicating liquors by Matlas Blduayen arler which they seized the brothers and carried them to the stations, sta-tions, turning them loose after the attempts ot having them locked up proved futile, j While the capture of the Elduay-ens Elduay-ens was taking place. Deputy Marshal Prank t W'oemr o? Inglewood .-rived .-rived on a motorcycle, having been summoned by a neighbor of the Eld- uayena wbo telepboned that a 'band of thieves," was grouped about his house WoerneT was halted by two men. masked, he testified, who order ed him to throw up his hand" He replied by emptying his revolver at them. They fell. They were f'on-stable f'on-stable M. B. Mosher and Leonard Ruegg'. both of Inglewood. Walter V. Mosher. son of the constable and one of the raiders, ratals running up and was shot In the arm by H'oern. r, |