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work, read the following from Mr. Burton, in the National Tribune:“The film* showed a wonderful exhibition of “night riders'* or “The Ku Klux Klan.” and the text represented them to be brave men trying to save southern civilization.“The only case of a demonstration of these night riders in their costumes that I knew of in a residence of seven years among them, was at Eutaw, Ala., near where I lived Five or six colored men had been killed for attending a republican convention. Three of the bodies had been found in an abandoned well. Alexander Boyd, the county solicitor or state’s attorney, as we call them, had secured some evidence against the murderers and said he would try to enforce the law.“To prevent this there was a ’gathering of the Klan* to the number of sixty, who, with their horses, were disguised with white sheets. At midnight they surrounded the hotel where Boyd boarded. Thirty were placed on guard against Imaginary foes outside the hotel. Thirty went Inside and fifteen went to Mr. Boyd's room, forced open the door and shot him in bed, each or the fifteen putting a bullet through his body. This is a sample of the brave’ work of the 'brave Ku Klua Klan” to shield some of their murderous members and to “preserve southern civilization.''“Mr. Boyd was born and brought up in Eutaw, had been a major inthe confederate army, had marriedthe daughter of a wealthy planter inEuta^f. w*§ a successful lawyer and highly respected in the community,
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Madison Daily Leader
Madison, South Dakota, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1916
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