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Show Warrants Out In Morehouse Crimes Bastrop, La. Warrants for the arrest ar-rest of nearly a score of Morehouse Parish citizens charging them with various offenses in connection with the masked band activities in the parish last summer, Thursday were in the hands of Sheriff Fred Carpenter. Carpen-ter. The bills of information drawn by Attorney General A. V. Coco, numbering about thirty, were brought to Bastrop late Wednesday by District Attorney David I. Garrett and filed with James Dalton, clerk of the court of the Sixth judicial district, who immediately im-mediately Issued the warrants and placed them in the hands of the sheriff. sher-iff. Smith Stevenson, Fred Higgin-botham Higgin-botham and Newt Gray surrendered to the sheriff. They said they were rea 'y to make bond and would prepare pre-pare to fight their cases in court. Ca; tain J. K. Skipwith, exalted cy-clops cy-clops of the Morehouse Ku Klux Klan, telephoned the sheriff he would surrender. |