Dear Listers, I, to have read the confession of Ole Richard. And I found him very silent about his KKK activities. On Page 16 of my version, I find the following: "William Smoot was then called for, and came forward, desiring Shuck to correct the minds of the people relative to his being connected with the robbery of a man by the name of Baer, from Madison. Shuck said the report was unfounded; that Robert Goodrich, Joe Goodrich, and Jackson Simmons were guilty of that robbery, as stated to him by Robert Goodrich." Bill Smoot was the local KKK Chief, according to spies sent into the area in 1873 by the U.S. Secret Service. Shuck didn't tell all, I am afraid. He might have thought his buddies were going to set him free. Tom