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Show A TEACHER Miss Chamberlain Will Tell tier Sirange Story on Witness Stand Lincoln Center, Kan., Nov. 17. Twelve Jurymen, all subject to challenge, chal-lenge, sat In the' box when tho case or Sherrill Clark, a wealthy merchant, and brother of EvereUt G. Clark, who already had pleaded guilty, A. X. Simms, a mill worker, and John Schmltt, a farmer, wa3 called In the district court today. The three are charged with assault and battery In connection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain of Shady Bend-Farmers Bend-Farmers from surrounding counties who had driven as many as forty miles to hear the "tarrin' case" aud ovory citizen who could leave his work filled Judgo Dalled Grover's court room so that the Judge himself with difficulty made his way through tho room. Following Judgo Grover's order that no women or children be allowed in the court room because the judgo "believed "be-lieved tho testimony would be unfit for the cars of any mother or daughter, daugh-ter, of Lincoln count," the few women wom-en regulars who have been attending the trial wore absent, and thp men had the court room to themselves. Judge Grovcr quietly Intlipated to tho newspaper reporters attending tho trial that It would bo dispjeaslng to tho court to havo to oxclude them from tho court room for sending soiisa-tionally, soiisa-tionally, colored stories to their papers pa-pers The man who carried the mos-sage mos-sage said Lincoln county had had enough detrimental advertising as a result of the tarring The Judge's order to exolude women and children and to curb sensational newspaper roports follows a petition from the Women's Civic League of JJncoln county. Tho first panel of thirty-four talesmen tales-men having been exhausted In securing secur-ing the 12 men in tho box, a new venire ve-nire of 100 was summoned during the night and earlv hours today and was In attendance when court convened. The defendants' attorneys aro asking ask-ing each veniremen if he would consider con-sider tho separate guilt of each defendant, de-fendant, although tho three aro being tried together . Unwillingness to do this results In challenges for cause. -The possibility of securing a jury before be-fore night, led the prosecution to declare de-clare that Miss Chamberlain would take the stand tomorrow and toll her story According to Miss Charabor lain, threo men did tho actual work of tarring, while the remainder of the mob looked on. Ono man held hoi prostrate, and another held tho bucket of tar and a third smeared tho black moss over Miss Chamberlain's body and limbs. s |