^"Seized in fraud cases; Says he's ex-Klan leader". شيكاغو تريبيون. 12 يوليو 1940. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-08-27. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2009-10-27. Edward Y. Clarke, who said he once was of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, was seized yesterday In his room at 4700 Kenmore avenue on charges of failing to pay a $600 hotel bill, cashing a $76 worthless check, and failure to repay $600 borrowed from a Chicago woman. .
^"Imperial Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Kustody". مكتب التحقيقات الفيدرالي. 11 مارس 2004. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2009-09-19. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2009-10-26. Eighty years ago, in mid March 1924, Edward Young Clarke, an advertising executive in the state of Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court to violating the Mann Act (an anti-prostitution measure enacted in 1910). The fact that he had been caught taking his mistress across state lines, however, was just the tip of this federal case.