The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-21
STRIPPED GIRL
TO burn LOWER
limbs With TAR.
Laborer Tell. Jury How Young
Teacher Was Misheated
Out In Kansas
OLD MAN WORE A GUNNYSACK
Another Had Millbas Over His
Head When Heinous Crime
Was Committed
OLD MAN WORE A GUNNYSACK

Lincoln center, hanSaS. NOV, ~
The young victim sat motionless be-,
traying not the least sign or a tear
while Chester Anderson, a iaborer of
Beverly, related to a jury this after
noon the startling story or now ten
men of Lincoln county, himself one
of the number dragged Miss Mary
Chamberlain school teacher from
buggy near Twelve Mile School House
and administered a coat OF tar to her
naked body.
Under cross examination Anderson
admitted that he had never heard
any gossip against Miss Chamberlain
and said that mis- part In the tarring
followed talk at Clark's mill near
the place of the "tarring," when S.
Clark or Mr.. Sims asked him il he
would take Mary Chamberlain out
that night because they wanted to tar
her. He told them mo-.
Anderson told OF how ne had ar
ranged with Ed Ricord to take the
girl for the buggy ride and of going
back to Clark's mill to notify the
gang
Used a Gunnysack.
TIE night of the tarring Anderson
and Delbert Kinelsperger drove to
the scene In buggy while other
members of the mob came on motor
cycles. When he got to the scene
of the tarring, Anderson said he
was forced to laugh for there stood
Everett Clark the wealthy old miller
Of Beverly with a glinnysack over his
head, through which eye and breath
ing holes had been poked and by his
side was Jay Fitzgerald, his head
covered with a millbag.
When Miss Chamberlain and
Ricord drove by, Anderson said he
and Kinelsperger stepped out into
the road and pointed toy pistol at
them. and halted the par.
81 held my gun on Ricord and
Delbert held his on Mary. Two
other men wearing masks came up
and took Mary out of the buggy ana
Ricord got out and hid Another
man held the tar can," said the wit
ness.
Anderson said two of the men
were Everett Clark and Fitzwater but
he did not know the third
Tarred on Lower Limbs
"On what part of Miss Chamber
lains body did they put the tarT'
Anderson was asked.
"On her lower limbs as near as
could tell" he replied.
Anderson said after the act was
accomplished Miss Chamberlain was
helped into her clothes. She got in
to the buggy and drove away with
Ricord
Alta >,Lindermuth, one OF Ander-
sons COMPANIONS. corroborated the
testimony. He recognized eight o.
the men since arrested
Court Room Packed. .ls
The witness said he took no par
in the tarring, merely hiding behint
fence to see the fun" A huge
crowd filed the court room. almos
to suffocation. The Judge again tolt
the deputies to be careful that n,
minors were admitted. 50
Scores of men crouched silentl,
all day just behind the bar rail. Un
able to find seats several of them sa
on the steps Of Judge Growers dias
in order that they might not miss !,
word of what was said.
Miss Chamberlain probably viii
tell her story to the jury tomorrow
Decoy Man q Witness
Just before time for court to ad
journ the county attorney startle,
the spectators who we're strugglin,
to make their way from the cour
room, by shouting:
"Call Ed Ricord." Through prf
vate room the decoy of Miss Cham
berlain came slowly. His face wa
flushed and as he took the oath an
told his age his voice trembIed
Ricord said he was in Beverly Of
August a. He said he met Andersen
in front Of . restaurant