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Show BOYS ATTACKED THEIR TEACHER Hut She Thrashed Hevoml of TiViin a"d Ilorno wIppRd the Leitrior. Miss Lulu N"lson of Osage, N. Y., a pretty and athletic school teacher of the Hooper's Valley school, has demonstrated dem-onstrated hor ability to care for herself her-self by thrashing several pupils who attempted to assault her, and has been acquitted by a jury of (logging one of her assailants with a horsewhip. horse-whip. Several pupils of the school, led by Ira Ilillegas, had organized a plot to oust the teacher. Miss Nelson ordered order-ed young Ilillcgas to replenish the lire. lie refused and she threatened him with a whip. He attempted tu strike her with a coal scuttlo, and the other boys in the plot came to his aid, hut she was equal to the occasion and placed her would-be assailants hors de; combat. Then with a largo horsewhip she administered a thrashing thrash-ing to Hiilogas, raising fourteen ridges on his arms and back and drawing blood in three places. He Bworo out a warrant for her arrest and she was tried before Judgo Kmith. When, at the close of the evidence, evi-dence, the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty, there was a dramatic demonstration dem-onstration in the court room. |