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jeen.?nce•wn,tiedLa-'tedby-TELLS ODD STORYIo m ird, the or re-aa-villOf(By Associated Press)Lawrence, Mass., June 30.—A story of having been kidnapped by members of the Ku IClux Klan, kept two weeks in a camp near Plaistow, X. h„ turned ioose last Thursday after being- branded, with the letter K was told -by Nelson Burroughs of Rochester, N. H„ here today.*He disappeared from his home about three weeks ago •Burroughs said that on June 11 he accepted the offer'of an automobile ride from Dover to Rochester. While on the— vray he asserted the man who was she ^riv,rg the automobile suggested that'they Visit a camp where liquor could be obtained. He said he lost consciousness after drinking there and __ 1 When he recovered found himself a the Drisoncr. “Last Thursday three hoofl-- ed men came to me. Burroughs continued, und said they could not keep me m the camp any longer. They branded a K on my forehead and one on each breast and turned me loose with a warning that I would be killedI returned to Rochester. The night before I heard men in the next room to mine say that they were going to ■set me' because I. was a former Protestant who had joined the Roman Catholic church, because my wife had turned Catholic to marry me and because I had founded the first Knights of Columbus council in Rochester.f* ' „A°TC?e*ter' Junef 30-The reputation of Nelson Burroughs is said to be such here that his story would be believed .Dtn-:heon.he:heofono-
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Mon, Jun 30, 1924
Page 4
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