June 25, 1921.--At West Columbia, Texas, an unknown man was tarred
and feathered and ordered to leave town.
June 21, 1921.--At Wharton, Texas, Henry Schultz was whipped, tarred
and feathered after being kidnapped by masked men.
June 26, 1921.--At Yoakum, Texas, a white man, name withheld, citizen
of the place for twenty years, was found on a lonely road, tarred,
feathered and blindfolded.
June 27, 1921.--At Austin, Texas, Ku Klux Klan placards were posted
warning against violation of moral codes.
July 1, 1921.--At Fort Worth, Texas, a white man whose name was not
printed was taken from his home at 9 P.M. and given twenty lashes for
alleged mistreatment of his wife.
July 4, 1921.--At Austin, Texas, Governor Neff, chief executive of
the State in an address before the Rotary Club said that a crime wave
had struck the State and that "the entire administration of the
criminal code had broken down." On the same day warnings of the Ku
Klux Klan were posted on the State Capitol grounds.
July 5, 1921,--At Fort Worth, Texas, Benny Pinto was tarred and
feathered and ordered out of town. A woman found with him in his
automobile was taken home by his abductors.
July 8, 1921.--At Glidden, Texas, Harry Adams, a gardener, was beaten
and choked by masked armed men. Then found to be the wrong man, he
was released.
July 12, 1921.--At Enid, Okla., Walter Billings, a motion-picture
operator, was given a coating of cotton and crude oil, after being
whipped by masked men.
July 14, 1921.--One hundred masked men gathered at the jail at
Greeneville, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempted to lynch Matt
Olizen, negro, charged with killing Orbie Standlee.
July 14, 1921.--A delegation from Duncanville, Texas, warned the
Dallas authorities that if Archie Holsome, charged with attacking a
white woman was released, he would be lynched.
July 16, 1921.--At Tenaha, Texas, Mrs. Beulah Johnson, a white woman,
was seized from the porch of a hotel, taken to the woods, stripped of
her clothing, tarred and feathered preceding which her hair was
clipped. Masked men wearing white uniforms attacked her, the woman
said. They drove up to the hotel in three automobiles. Mrs. Johnson
had been arrested on a charge of bigamy at Center, Texas, and was out
on bond when she was seized.
July 17, 1921.--At Nacogdoches, Texas, J. M. McKnight was beaten by
masked men.
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