Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-21
KANSAS MORALS
MUST Be Low
Testimony at Tar Party
Trial Goes Beyond
Decency
CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON TEACHER
Confessed Assailant Bares Sick.
ening Details of the Hor-
rible Plot.

(By Specia, leased Wire to New Mexican)
Lincoln Center Kansas, Nov. 21.-
! Contrary to the general expectation,
Miss Mary Chamberlain did not take
case at the morning session of the
trial here today. After the noon ad.
journment Prosecutor McCanless said
he intended to close his case with the
testimony of the school teacher victim
OF the assault. Her story probably
will be heard late today, he said
A new feature in the conspiracy
against the girl developed today in
the cross examination of Edward Ric-
ord, a confessed assailant of the
young woman. He testified he had
planned to commit an immoral act be-
fore the eyes of the mob at the point
selected for the staging of the "tar-
ring" The band was then to have
attacked the girl. Miss Chamberlain
re pulsed him he said, and thus the
scheme was foiled
Ricord also admitted that he had
been threatened with penitentiary
sentence if he testified that he had
been intimate with Miss Chamberlain.
who made the threat?" Ricord was
asked.
Samuel C. Wolford, the sheriff"
replied the witness.
Later Wolford took the stand and
! denied having made any such state.
ment to the barber.
Miss Chamberlain Tells Story.
While the spectators, who crowded
every inch of space in the court room,
| listened breathlessly, Miss Chamber
lain told with minute detail the story
that men and women in this and ad-
joining counties had both dreaded and
anxiously awaited.
Miss ChamberIain's Story.
Lincoln Center, Kansas, Nov. I'll
After telling about her employment in
a store at Shady Bend, Miss Chamber
lain plunged into her story.
did some one call you up on Aug,
ust u" was asked.
"Yes, Ed Ricord," she replied.
What did he say?"
i He joled me little bit and then
said there was dance at Beverly and
he wanted me to go with him. He
said we were invited and I told him
| would go. lie arrived about $3.50
! o'clock and We started to Beverly"
What did he say to you.'
| "He spoke about the people that
were going to be at the dance"
How was his conduct towards
you?"
His remarks were indecent"
What did you say?'
| II told him if he was going to act
that way l wanted to go back home.
We talked little and then we turn.
ed around and started back toward
/, Shady Bend"
What happened at the top of the
hill on the way back to town and a
short distance from where you turned
around?"
Five masked men took me from
the buggy. Three of them carried me
around behind the buggy, threw me
down and smeared tar over my shoul.
ders and my lower limbs"
I did you recognize any of them?"
/ "Not then"
Where was Ricord?"
"He was over by the fence"
did he assist you in any way?"
"He did not"
j Did you call to Ed to help your
Eyes, two or three times"
What happened then?"
zone of the men then raised my
clothes over my head. Another pour
ed the tar on my lower limbs and two
smeared it around"
did the treatment you received
that night make you lame?"
1T did"
"How did you get back into tn,
buggy"
Il do not remember"
DID Rlcord accompany you bacl
to town."
"He did"
did you see any men in the roa,
s as you were going back to town."
"Yes, four of them"
s did you call Records attention t
{ them"
{ EYES,"
6 What did he do?"
s Whipped up the horse"
6 The prosecution then went back t
e obtain a more detailed story of no,
: much tar was applied to Miss Chan
I berlain's body.
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