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Bastrop Klan Case List Shows 12 Names as Black Hood Mob
Read into District Court records in Bastrop Louisiana were 12 men named as leaders of black hooded mobs that terrorized Morehouse Parish before the torture and murder of Watt Daniel and Tom Richards. Included are Capt. J. K. Skipwith Dr. B. M. McKain Jeff Burnett and others. witnesses tied these figures to the Ku Klux Klan and to kidnaping and threats.
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Bastrop
Morehouse Parish
District Court
Watt Daniel
Tom Richards
James Tisdale
Monroe
A. B. Campbell
Jones
Pink
Kirkpatrick
Met Rouge
Earl Rogers
J. D. Higginbotham
Larry Calhoun
Jus
Calhoun
Bob’’ Dade
3 Rouge
Harp Boys
Louisiana
Richards
Secret Service
Federal Department of Justice
Daniel
Coco
Carpenter
Klan
Bastropians
Neelis
Sheriff Carpenter
W. C. Andrews
Skipwith
Dr. McKain
Laurie Calhoun
Gus. Calhoun
Seb Dade
Pink’’ Kirkpatrick
Hugh Clark
Tom
Harry Neelis
United States District Attorney
Jeff Burnett
Fred Higgingbotham
Dr McKoin
Capt. Skipwith