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Show GUILTY OF II UGHBi ON RAIL Five Gray-haireH Illinois Women May Spent Six Months in Jail. WAUKEGAN, HI, Dec. 5. Five gray-haired women of the village of Yolo, who rode Mrs. John Richardson on a rail one night in July because her name was linked by gossip with that of her brother-in-law,, wero found guilty here tonight by a jury. Each may be f inod $200 and sentenced to' six months in- ,iail.. Tho band of militant housewives who took the law. in' their owu hands was composed of Mrs. Emma Stadfield, Mrs. Loviua Raymond, Mrs. Alma Wat-Ian, Wat-Ian, Mrs. Mary Sabol and Airs. John Stadfield. Mrs. Kate Wagner, tho sixth woman who started to carry Mrs. .Richardson outside the villago limits, was freed by tho jury because sho returned re-turned homo before the victim was given her ride, Thero was no ovidonco that Mrs. Wagner helped support the rail and its burden. Mrs. Sabol is 05 years old and tho others are well abovo -10. They sat huddled and dazed in tho courtroom tonight to-night as the verdict was read. They bore uo resemblance to tho angry women, wom-en, outraged becaugo they bolieved a neighbor preferred the company of another an-other to her crippled husband, who drew Mrs. Richardson from her home by a subterfuge, placed her astrido a weather-beaten scantling, bore her, screaming and fighting, to the edge of town and dumped her to the road, with a warning never to return. R. J. Kady. assistant stato's attorney, attor-ney, in tho afternoon compared the action ac-tion of the Volo women to that p Christ when tho Pharisees brought him on tho Mount Olives a woman who had siuned. |