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Show WITNE83 WAS STUBBORN. Refused to Testify Unless Court Room Was Cleared of Spectators. Kallapcll, Mont. Proceeding In tho trlnl of Joe Hobbles, aged 19, alleged al-leged accessory to the murder of the Yoakums, father ond son, wero stalled stall-ed and the court faced a quandary for thirty minutes, when Fred Lebeau, the chief witness for the state and. now awaiting sentenco under conviction convic-tion of first degree murder, flatly refused re-fused to testify further unless spectators spec-tators should bo excluded from tho room. I.ebenn went to bed on tho previous night declaring ho would never entor tho court room excent to receive sentence, "unless you take me thero dead." Ho relented In tho morning under the condition that tho court room bo vacated, which waa ac-tcmpllBhcd ac-tcmpllBhcd after an explanation by Deputy Sheriff 'Ingrahum. Then Ix-beau Ix-beau answered freely during tho irornlng session. Hut when tho spec-IMorh spec-IMorh declined to again vacate In the afternoon (ho witness remained nb-duratfl nb-duratfl after repeated admonitions by tha court and n liny of J25 had been entered for contempt. When Informed In-formed of this iictlon I,obcau remarked remark-ed that It made no dlflercnco, as he expected to ha'ng anyway. At 5 p m., however, tho room was again cleared, and Lobcau went on the stand and answered till questions and tho'flno was remitted. . |