Asheville—An “invisible influence” is at work in western North Carolina, to all apparent, seeming attempting to shape the destinies of its residents, seeking to have a hand in the administration of the law.
Arrested last week, making cash bond in the sum of $400 each for their appearance in court the following day, departing the night of their arrest, after making bond, brought back from Saluda within 12 hours of their departure, by three unidentified men, not officers, attributed with having a hand in the administration of the “invisible influence,” their bonds raised after preliminary hearing from $400 to $1,000 each, also presumably as a result of this “invisible influence,” and now being prosecuted in the Buncombe county superior court by two attorneys other than the regular solicitor, are the experiences of two white women, Helen Garlington, of Cook county, Ills. (Illinois), and Ethelyn Murice of St. Louis, Mo.
When requested by the court, Judge Phillip C. Cocke, and Attorney Zeb Nettles, the two acting with the solicitor, named their retainer as a Mr. Fronenberger of this city.
L.L. Fronenberger is the recognized and admitted organizer in this district for the Ku Klux Klan.
From The Review, High Point, N.C., Nov. 17, 1921
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