From The News Palladium
Benton Harbor, Michigan
January 28, 1930

JURY GIVES FORMER
KU KLUX OFFICIAL
VERDICT OF $9,000
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   DETROIT, Jan. 28 -- Clayton C. Gilliland, former klokard of the Symwa club and the Wayne county Ku Klux Klan, is entitled to $9,000 for his services to the organization, a jury which heard his suit for $10,000 decided in a verdict returned Monday night.
   Gilliland now plans, according to his attorneys, to press a pending suit alleging false arrest.
   The verdict was against the club and the local Klan as organizations, the individuals named as defendants having been given a direct verdict by Judge  Clarence M. Brown.
   The former klokard claimed in his suit that in 1924 he recovered for the organization $50,300 in money and property by exposing corruption among some leaders.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010