Show WITNESS WAS STUBBORN refused to test fy finless I 1 aless court room was cleared of spectators kalispell Kall Kal spell mont proceedings in the trial of joe hobbins aged 19 al lebed accessory to the murder of the father and son were stall ed and the court faced a quandary tor for thirty minutes when fred lebeau the chief witness tor for the state and now awaiting sentence under condic tion of first degree murder flatly re fused to testify further unless spec tutors should be excluded from the room lebeau went to bed on the previous night declaring he would never enter the court room except to receive sentence unless you take me there dead he relented in the morning under the condition that the court room be vacated which was ac after an explanation by deputy sheriff ingraham then le beau answered freely during the tr orning session but when the spec spee tutors declined to again vacate in the afternoon the witness remained ob durate after repeated admonitions by the court and a fine of 25 had been entered for contempt when in formed of this action lebeau remark ed that it made no difference as he expected to hang anyway at 5 I 1 m however the room was again cleared and lebeau went on the stand and answered all questions and the fine was remitted |