Imperial Kludd and Former Pastor Fails to Appear in Court for DWI, Oct. 20, 1923

Dr. Ridley Case Continued

By the Associated Press

Atlanta, Oct. 20—The case of Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, known as the Imperial Kludd of the Ku Klux Klan, former pastor of an Atlanta church, who is charged by police with being “drunk and operating an automobile,” today was postponed indefinitely when called in police court. Dr. Ridley was not in court.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, October 20, 1923