The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-20
Victim Held Up With Toy Pts
tolls He Says.
FIRL OFFERED MONEY
CIarks Tell ScandaIOus Story on
School Ma'am.
Witness First Asked to DecOy
Woman From Home.

lest citizens and arranged the details
of the plot TO tar Miss Mary Chamber
lain, the school teacher whose frightful
| experience at the hands of a band OF
men and boys last August convulsed
all Kansas, was told on the witness
stand by Chester Anderson, one of the
party at the beginning of the trial
today.
It is believed the defense will attack
the character of the school teacher
Already one member IF the tar party
connects her name with three small
boys in the relating of the statements
of the Clark brothers
The three men on trial today were
Sheriu Clark, brother of E. G. Clark
the miller, who pleaded guilty, and John
Schmidt and A. N. Sims, farmers An
derson testified that they were NOT
members of the band who actually
spread the tar as they came to the
rendezvous on foot and were unable
to keep I'D with the others who rode
MOTORCYCLES.
Two Held Up Pair.
County Attorney McCanless made the
opening statement for the prosecution
narrating tie entire history of the case
He told how the plot was laid in Shady
Bend August z, how Edward HlcoIu'
the Beverly barber was hired to take
Miss Cham berlair out In a buggy on
the pretense of escorting her to a coun-
try dance, and then to deliver her over
TO the men with the tar hiding behind
the fence He told how Chester Anoer-
son and Deltert Kindelsparger nau
played the bighWayman on the DaEDel
and the girl
'sThey held up their buggy at the
point of pistols McCanless declared
'They took the young woman IRON ON
ground. They tore off her clothes
and while one poured another RUBBED
the tar upon her naked body. All OF
the men wore masks
been at the actual ''tarring," McCan-
less said, by their own boast the rea-
son thev were absent was because they
were unable to keep pace with the
blame with the others, he said.
Anderson Tells Story.
Anderson a laborer of Beverly VINO
with Kindelsparger. was sentenced III
a Justice court shortly after the tar
ring to ninety days in jail for part
in it, was the first witness called. He
is to be tried later on appeal He told
how he had been "go-between' be-
twixt Ricord and the Clarks. He said
he was 21 years old and unmarried.
s.Were. YOU mixed up in this affair ?
asked Attorney McCanless.
"TeiI about it."
II went to Shady Bend with load
of corn for Everett Clark.
when wRs that"
Her Character ATTACKED.
ION August 7. I so2d it to the men
at the mill and one of them, / don't
remember whether it was Everett or
Sheriff. Clark or Mr.. Sims asked me
If I would take Mary Chamberlain out
that night, and that they wanted to
tar her. I said no. She had never
done anything to me-"
.sThey said she had three boys be-
tween the ages of 10 and 1s years OF
age on he river the night before and
that they wanted to get rid of her
Thev said they thought coat of tar
might do some good. Then I left.
ssWhen 1 got back to Beverly I saw
Ed Ricord sitting in front Of the bar
Der shop. I told him about the scheme
to get Mary Chamberlain out.
Ricord Was Came
I'm game he said. I'll take her.
offered Girl Money.
ssHe called her up. She seemed at
first to refuse. Then he offered her a
dollar. Still she refused. He finally
fuse Then he arranged to take her
to a dance. I heard the telephone con- /
versation. He said she refused at first |
saying, she told him the last time she |
was out with him that she would not /
'dThen I went back to Shady Bend /
and told the Clarks that Ricord would |
get their girl for them. Some of the /
boys in town had heard of II. We |
gathered at Clark's bill. We decided /
to wear masks, and and Delbert |
were selected to hold /
the buggy up.
HoIdups Used Pop Guns.
We used pop guns. rubber pistols.
to hold them up
I'VE were late getting to the place
and when the buggy appeared it was
coming up the hill from the wrong
direction. We had the tar ready and
held her up. Record jumped out of
That's about all. I held the horses
Were any Of these defendants
there %
mo. They and John Booze had
not got there yet. We came on mo-
torcycles.''
The place where the tar was to be
applied. he said, was one mile north of /
shady Bend. When Record and the /
girl were net the party we're some dis |
tance fourther from town Anderson did |
not see the tar spread. he said, be-
cause he held the horses
Teachers Plans Not Made.
Miss Mary Chamberlain, the young
teacher who was decoyed into the coun-
of tar, does not know what she shall \
do to earn a livelihood in the future. |
In fact she has been so busy assisting /
the prosecuting attorney in preparing |
the case for the courts and in recover
ing from the fearful mental and nervous
shock which the affair caused. that she
has not had time to consider the fu-
ture.
When seen by the reporter FOR the
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