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Show KANSAS TAR PARTY JAIL Where Several Members of the Crowd Who Mistreated Miss Chamberlain Chamber-lain Now Reside. Lincoln Center, Kan. The jail on the court house common at Lincoln Center, Kan., had been without a single prisoner and the county authorities au-thorities were about to convert it into in-to an englneroom when the now famous fa-mous "tar party" at Shady Bend occurred. oc-curred. Ed Ricord, the decoy, who rode with. Miss Mary Chamberlain to the rendezvous ren-dezvous for the tarring, and several others of the party now occupy the building. The front widow seen in the picture lights the cell where Ricord Ric-ord now reads law. The stone of which the jail and the court house of Lincoln county were built is native to the county. It was quarried for the two buildings from the hillsides near Lincoln Center. Miss Chamberlain intended to bring suits for damages against all the participants par-ticipants in the tarring, but proceed- i i Jail at Lincoln Center, Kan. Ings were started for a compromise and it is said that $25,000 is the last her attorneys would agree to accept in settlement. The three men, E. C. Clark, Jay Fitzwater and Watson Scranton, who pleaded guilty, and John Schmidt, who was convicted, ara worth in the aggregate more than $100,000, Clark alone being rated in excess of $50,-000. $50,-000. Their pleas of guilty and the conviction of Schmidt leave them exposed ex-posed for damages, and, it is said, that upon the advice of their attorneys attor-neys they would compromise rather than to go Into court where they might be stripped clean. |