Show WITNESS WAS STUBBORN Refused to Testify Unless Court Room Was Cleared of Spectators Kallspell Mont Proceedings in the trial of Joe Hobblns aged 19 alleged al-leged accessory to the murder of the Yoakums father and son were stalled stall-ed and the court faced a quandary for thirty minutes when Fred Lebeau the chief witness for tho state and now awaiting sentence under convlc ion of first degree murder flatly refused re-fused to testify further unless spec tators should be excluded from the room Lebeau went to bed on tho previous night declaring he would never enter the court room except to receive sentence unless you take mo here dead He relented in the morning under the condition that the court room bo vacated which was accomplished ac-complished after an explanation by Deputy Sheriff Ingraham Then Ixj beau answered freely during the rrornlng session But when tho specters spec-ters declined to again vacate in tho afternoon the witness remained obdurate ob-durate after repeated admonitions by he court and a fine of 25 had been entered for contempt When Informed formed of this action Lebeau remarked remark-ed that it made no difference as ho i expected to hang anyway At 5 p m however the room was again I cleared and Lebeau went on tho stand and answered all questions nnd I he line was remitted |