Thursday, September 26, 2024

Tom Dunn Falsely Collects KKK Admittance Fees, Sept. 27, 1924

United Clan Detective Convicted

By Associated Press

Raleigh, Sept. 27—A Wake county jury convicted Tom Dunn, local private detective, of false pretense following testimony in superior court yesterday, that he as an organizer for the United Clansmen solicited a $10 initiation fee from an applicant for membership in the Ku Klux Klan.

The United Clansmen, a rival and, allegedly, an imitator of the Ku Klux Klan, has existed here for some time.

W.P. Jones, a farmer, testified that he paid Dunn $10 for what he thought was an admittance fee in the Ku Klux Klan.

From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., Sept. 27, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068453/1924-09-27/ed-1/seq-1/#words=SEPTEMBER+27%2C+1924

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