Word: skelcher
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...Young and his wife were fired on while driving in his automobile. Both were wounded. Next day, a man named Skelcher, believed to have taken part in the armed fusilade against Young was shot to death, riddled with 30 bullets while riding in an automobile. Continuous trials of Klansmen and anti-Klansmen added to the tension...
...morning during the trial of several men accused of killing Skelcher's father, a Klansman testified that he did not believe the accused were guilty, and the case was dismissed. Later the same day, the Sheriff and two deputies walked into the J. H. Smith Garage, said to be Klan headquarters, to seize a car said to have been used in the attack on Skelcher. Dewey Newbolt, a Klansman, was sitting within, four guns strapped to his waist. Everybody opened fire. Before the firing was over, six were dead and five wounded. More troops...
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