Word: mcdanal
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...accuser was Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, wife of a night truck driver. One night last June a gang of robed Klansmen broke into her house, accused her of "dancing nude on her front porch," renting rooms to unmarried couples, and selling whisky. They hit her a couple of times, then hustled her outside in her nightgown to watch a cross burn on her front lawn. ("It sure was pretty," testified a neighbor...
...McDanal snatched at the Klansmen's hoods, tore off several. One of them was Lollar, she said...
Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic...
...Take Four." But Brownie was confident. He admitted that he had once been a member of the K.K.K., but swore that he had resigned. When was that? Well, the end of June (three weeks after the McDanal raid). Anyway, the night of the raid he was at a ball game, and he had three witnesses to prove...
...defense also paraded 14 witnesses who said that they would not believe Mrs. McDanal under oath, and also produced what it claimed were pictures of Mrs. McDanal posing nude in a cornfield. The judge refused to admit them, but the defense waved them around carelessly and later, quite a few men came up to look more closely. Said one: "I'll take four copies of that one." Everybody laughed...