The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-12
STUDENTS TO
EXPOSE JOINTS
"HAvE you BEEN UBPoENAED7"
PARAMOUNT X. U. QUESTION.
The Trials OF Lawrence Liquor Sell
ers Whose Arrest Followed the
Recent 'StudentJ Edition,
Begin Tomorrow.

Lawrence. Kas.. May 1.-THE usu
al question when one X. L. student
met another n. L. student today or |
yesterday was.
Have you been suhpoenacl yato' /
The trials OF the Lawrence join;. /
lists arrested after the exposure /
printed In the students edition of the /
Lawrence Journal two weeks ago /
will come mp in the district court |
here Monday morning. All OF the I.
university students know of this
fact and great many Of them are !
planning to be ON hand not because
Of any particular interest in the
| prosecution of liquor cases, but be.
cause Of the Witnesses whose tes-
/ timony is relied upon TO do the
worl; for the county attorney.
/ Nearly 100 students will be ON
hand whether they can arrange then
work in school or not They have
been subpoenaed to appear at
certain hour and they will ba there.
The other morning the sheriT went
to the "hill" and hunted up the
students and served the papers upon
them. Two or three outran him in
race in Fraser hall, but he had lit.
tie trouble finding those he wanted
More than ninety subpoenas have
been issued by the county attorneys,
and forty of these. it Is said are
being held in reserve and will be
served If It appears tina Ia greater
quantity of evidence Is wanted.
Only about twenty five of the sut.
poenas were for the student Journal.
lists. The rest were for students who
are supposed to know some things
about the East bottoms" in Law
| renee that will sound well in he
| prosecution of the joint cases If
, they will tell them on the witness
, stand.
Just how far the student witnesses
= will have to go IS what worries them.
| \ local newspaper man has taken
5 the matter up with Judge Smart.
5 so the hill" stories go, and the
| judge has said that the students
F. will not be required TO tell all they
4 know about the East bottoms, but
, just that which concerns the par
1 ticular cases on trial It has been
: reported that "Uncle Jimmy" Green.
, the popular dean of the law school,
/ would appear in court as assistant
to the county attorney ostensibly,
/ but really to look after the inter
, csts of the students. II was found
/ however that the dean was not en-
. thusiastic about the joint exposure
| and consequent notoriety to the stu.
! dents and that he would not attend
, the trials
; The members of the Scoop club.
r who had editorial charge OF the
e students edition, are not worried
y over the approach Of the trial. They
D have the evidence, they declare, and
e they are willing to tell it in its
t fullness in court. Already they are
y planning to use their witness fee
;. money for function" to be given
{ before school is out.
a Jerome Beatty, managing editor,
and Roy Roberts, city editor, of the
students edition, according to the
! plan, will be the first witnesses call
ed, and they will be followed by
just As many members of the staff
/ as II is believed are needed TO back
up their stories. Harry II. Kemp.
? the tramp poet, whose poem, "The
Bottoms, written after a trip to the
scene one night, will not be at me
D trials, lie left last week for New
d York and the Bermuda Islands,
whore he will spend the summer
with friends.
u The cases are to be called Mon,
day morning. The order OF the cases
D viii be determined then, County At,
3 torney Harley believes that the Joint.
I lists, in view OF the formidable ar.
e ray Of Witnesses, will plead guilty
d and save the additional expense OF
p costs in case there is a conviction.
=,
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