GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT
Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle
STATE TROOPS CALLED
Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters
West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan’s first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.
Mob of Five Hundred
The meeting in a field of the Boston, Providence highway here yesterday, ended in a riot which the police of three towns were unable to quell. A mob of 500 anti-Klan sympathizers and three score Klansmen staged a pitched battle with fists, rocks and brick bats. Although fire arms were in evidence, no shots were fired.
Klansmen Escape
Most of the Klansmen escaped in their cars, but a few were bottled up on the south Stephen Illisleey where they huddled in the cellar while every window and much of the furniture disintegrated under a hail of rocks from the outside. Among those injured by flying missiles were Bernice Lee and May Wheeler of Waltham.
Disperse Mob
An appeal by West Wood town officials finally brought four state troopers from Framingham, who dispersed the crowd and escorted the besieged Klansmen to safety. They arrested three men, said to be Klansmen, on charges of carrying concealed weapons. The men were William G. Moore of Everett; Perly W. Libby, of Sudbury, and Roy Hall, son of the Sudbury police chief. Libby and Hall were captured two miles from the scene in a machine which contained a rifle and two revolvers, the police said.
Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, ND, August 3, 1925