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| Washington Times, 25-December-1923 |
Christmas is Coming.
With that in mind, here is a heart-warming Christmas story about the Detroit Police and the Ku Klux Klan.
KLAN CROSS IS SEIZED
POLICE PUT
5,000 TO
ROUT IN
FRAY
Organization’s Christmas Ceremony
Interrupted in Detroit.
By International News Service.
DETROIT, Dec. 25. -- With drawn guns sixteen policemen dismantled a burning fiery cross on the front steps of the county building early. today and dispersed 5,000 persons, many of them Ku Klux Klan members.
Christmas Ceremonial.
The others were spectators of what was described as a Klan Christmas ceremonial.
The cross, of iron pipe wrapped with asbestos and cloth, bound with wire and soaked in oil, was six feet high. It faced Cadillac square.
It was ignited with a flare at midnight, the klansmen shouting vociferously.
During the progress of the ceremony, a patrolman tried to fight his way to the cross. He was jostled about by klan members and pushed from the top of the stairway to the cement sidewalk below, a drop of about fifteen feet. He was uninjured.
Guns Are Drawn.
At this juncture the reserves arrived. They ran up the stairs to the pedestal where the cross was burning and the klansmen started to run in disorder as the policemen with drawn guns aided them with kicks and shoves.
Once down on the street the klansmen attempted to hold an indignation meeting but the police had different ideas and again dispersed them.
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