Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 23—A story of how members of a masked mob at Tulsa, after mercilessly beating a victim, cut off one of his ears and tried to force him to eat it, was made public tonight by Governor J.C. Walton in the form of testimony given the Tulsa military court by J.H. Smitherman.
“This is only one of the hundreds of such crimes committed, which the civil authorities of this state refuse to prosecute,” declared the executive. “I ask the people of the civilized world, in the presents of this testimony if I was not justified in proclaiming martial law in the city of Tulsa.”
From the front page of The Monroe Journal, Sept. 25, 1923
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