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howmasspi *_ » 1UUUproceedings were enlivened by several brisk passages fetween the presiding magistrate and the woman prisoner j001 the latter informing the court that she was tired of his evident partiality for the witnesses.KLUKLUX GANG ROUNDED UP.Five Men Have Been Sent to Jail for the Terrible Murder of a Ken* tucky Woman.Louisville Ky., Nov. 10.-Withfour of the leaders of Ihe eastern, Kentucky Kuklux gang in the penitentiary and a fifth under sentence of life imprisonment and now a raving maniac, the mountain regions are expected to be free from white caps for a time. The men who have been taken to the penitentiary are John Reynolds, Creed Potter, Sam Philpot and Robert Lumpkins.Mack Yonce, under sentence with the other four, has an appeal pending and became violently insane yesterday from worrying over his fate. The live prisoners belonged to the gang of nineteen that killed Mrs. Jemima Hall and her son in Lechter County last November.Mrs. llall was the wealthiest widow in the county and employed a neigh-lwr to'-protect her property. Other neighbors suspected that the relations between Mrs. Hall and her guard were not proper and the Kuklux gang was engaged to march upon the house one •Novemlier night of last year. Several members climbed to the roof of the house and fired down the chimney. The guard came to the door and opened fire on the gang, which responded. Forty-seven bullets were fired into the house, and Mrs. Hal! and her son were killed early in the scrimmage. The guard escaj)ed by a rear door. The search for the Kuklux gang by the officers of Letcher county, ledThe state heade gresswllOtlFlynr It year c tory t we ha000 pc have i twelvi voted tion.1 real come that i: we hi alread propei are va44 W« out In “Tbputtin the p over U the Ki are ac brick The b\ more s Older t of the ton ithi natural wouldr me out well anbv “Wild Bill” a famous mountainThat ditions may e statem* ion of partme ports month* May 31detective, lasted six months before the five who have been sentenced were } rounded up. Yonce, who has lost his mind, was the alleged leader of the gang. The Philpota have been mixed | j^re8 up in the feuds of eastern Kentucky *for thirty years, being identified with ■ ine the Philpot-Baker feud of recent years, show
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Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Nov 11, 1901
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Jamie T.
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