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The Kuklux Klan, that dreaded organisation of .murderers and bouseburners that tldorisUed a few years9go, has again coiniheucetl Its dcpi’ea-• tions, this time ia KeoTdefey.Two years ago the Jslaa was organis* led by Blaine Coombs, a fearless youug ! mountain tighter, now in the PhUip-| pines, The object of the klau was to whip lewd woinein and arlte them from the county. Camp Braitch and icoek-house- Creek, in the western part of Lc-teber county* contributed the first . members, and fa those settlements a | number of loose clmVacfers were wlilp-! ped. The membership of the klan rapidly Increased, however, arid in a short time 150 meu were sworn to carry out \ the decrees of the-order. I p. many |cases the decrees commanded thatdeath be done. I1 The serious depredations of the gang began IS months ago. At that time li t : members of the khtn. nmsked. itiaichod at dead of night to the borne of John I*. Cruft, a respected citizen, living near• Boone's Fork, and in his absence took
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 7
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Jamie T.
TN, USA 26 May 2017
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