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Show Fence Hides the Ankles of Woman Witness in Court NEW YORK, March 12. Because Mrs. Betty Inch was too generous gen-erous in the display of her ankles to jurymen who failed & month ago to agree on a verdict in her trial on a charge of extortion, she found the witness stand surrounded by a four-foot four-foot hoard fence when sho appeared today in the supreme court for the second hearing of her case. Though the court and prosecutor professed ignorance for the reason for the erection of the harrier, court attendants at-tendants recalled a statement of the latter when the first jury disagreed that "Mis. Inch must not show her ankles to the jurors at the next trial," else he would "ask the court to make her lower her dress." "What is it, a spite fence?" the comely Mrs. Inch inquired when she entered the courtroom. The partition concealed all hut her head and shoulders when she took the stand. She is being tried on a charge of extorting $215 from Eugene Eu-gene P. Herman, president of the Herman Motor Truck company. |