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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

KKK Struggling with Charges of Misappropriation of Funds, Aug. 23, 1922

Ku Klux Have Good Chance to Test Klan Methods in Own Ranks

Raleigh, Aug. 18—Delay in serving warrants against King Kleagle W.V. Guerard of the Ku Klux Klan with headquarters in Raleigh, is matched by Guerard’s attorneys who seem unwilling to sue Imperial Wizard Pote’s man Dr. W.E. Thompson, who is alleging misappropriation of money.

Guerard is going to sue Thompson for slander, he says, but he is waiting on Dr. Thompson who has announced his purpose to indict Guerard in Franklin and other counties, charging the misappropriation of Ku Klux money, Guerard announces his intention to sue the order for back pay. But nobody seems to move. Guerard desires the prosecution in the criminal courts, where he expects to be acquitted. Then he proceeds for false arrest, defamation and for salary.

The newspapers have been watching the battle, but all cartridges shot thus far have been blank ones. It looks very much as if the case will not get to any court within reach of the state officials.

The imperial wizard pro tem is Edward Clarke of Atlanta. The real imp is Colonel William Joseph Simmons, now abroad studying “conditions in Europe.” It is understood that the colonel means to plant a klan on the other side.

From The Kinston Free Press, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1922.

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