NEW TERRORS.
KU KLUX KLAN. A PASTOR BRANDED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received July 14, 10.40 a.m. NEW YORK, July 12. A . telegram from Battle Creek, Michigan, says that a new mystery, involving the terroristic methods of the Ku Lllux Ivlan, is causing discussion and indignation all over the country. The Rev. Organ Vanloon, pastor in a neighbouring community, who disappeared on June 30, was found in the street dazed. He is now in hospital, semi-delirions, and unable to tell what happened to him, but his right shoulder hears a brand of the letters K.K.K. two inches high. Vanloon suffers from constant hallucinations. apparently fearing that he is being kept for further nameless tortures. Whenever the door opens to admit a friend he shrieks: “Don’t let them get me,” while the entry of strangers utterly terrorises him. The police are vainly scouring the countryside and the Klan strongholds, hut friends believe that the Klan punished Vanloon for so-called apostasy in recently attacking secretsocieties from the pulpit, whereas he had before nermitted- I£lan gatherings in his church.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 July 1924, Page 7
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177NEW TERRORS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 July 1924, Page 7
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