Negroes Warned as 250 Autos Carry White Robed Men Through Distrist Enid, Okla., Oct. 27.--A parade of approximately 250 automobiles, each containing four or five men clad in white robes and hoods last night drove through a Negro street here amid a tumult of horns and other noise making devices. According to reports about a score of Negroes shortly before the parade had received anonymous warnings to leave town. Several were reported to have fled. The parade was thought to have been a sequel to a pistol fight between officers and two alleged Negro thieves early yesterday in which the Negroes were killed and a policeman injured.
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clipping, Attorney General Civil Case No. 1062, Box 25, Record Group 1-2, State of Oklahoma vs. John A. Gustafson, Chief of Police Tulsa (Tulsa Race Riot Investigation Vice Condition); Civil Case No. 1062, Attorney General, Oklahoma State Archives Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma City, OK
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Negroes Warned as 250 Autos Carry White Robed Men Through Distrist Enid, Okla., Oct. 27.--A parade of approximately 250 automobiles, each containing four or five men clad in white robes and hoods last night drove through a Negro street here amid a tumult of horns and other noise making devices. According to reports about a score of Negroes shortly before the parade had received anonymous warnings to leave town. Several were reported to have fled. The parade was thought to have been a sequel to a pistol fight between officers and two alleged Negro thieves early yesterday in which the Negroes were killed and a policeman injured.
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