Kate’s Notes: This piece was published in an Ohio paper but because the subject was from Georgia I have filed this under Georgia news.

From The Lima News, July 15, 1949

Bullets Menace Foes of Klan

   ATLANTA, July 15 -- (INS) -- Two Atlanta attorneys who filed a suit against Samuel Green, Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, reported today they were shot at last night and a cross burned in front of the house where they were staying.
   The attorneys, Hal A. Irwin and Samuel D. Johnson, filed a suit yestaeday on behalf of a war veteran who asked for court protection against Klan threats of torture.
   Irwin said a cross was set aflame last night and about the same time four or five bullets smashed through a window of the house. No one was injured.
   Subruban Decatur police said that they found four bullets embedded in the woodwork of the house. A small cross, about two feet long, was found still smoldering before the house.
   The suit was filed on behalf of Hugh Gilliland of Atlanta and was specifically directed at the Klan grand dragon.
   The petition asked protection from “a threat of torture and beating at the hands of the . . .  scum of the Ku Klux Klan.”

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010