The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-22
TWENTY
| HAM|LT0 NINE
Made Defendants in Federal Court at
Springfield in Suit for Fifty
Thousand Dollars
Damages.
MYRTLE sTICE AND MOB
An Echo Of Night When Citizens are
Said to Have Treated Harshly
a Local Man and Ubi-
quitous Myrtle.
MYRTLE sTICE AND MOB
Especial to The Gate CITY.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 22.-Myr-
tie Stice has sued twenty-three men
Of Hamilton for $4,000 damages for
personal injuries with paint brush
yellow paint and turpentine.
The suit was filed by mail this
morning in the United States dis
trict court here, with long type.
written complaint which sets out
the cause Of action to be an attack
made on the Stice woman last July,
which is alleged to have caused her
much expense, injury and mental
anguish.
The suit is brought here in the
federal court on the ground that
Myrtle Stice is citizen OF Keokuk
Iowa, and the defendants are citi
Zens of Illinois.
Twenty-three Of Them.
The defendants named are Harry
Piggett.t Hays Daugherty, Warren
Tiff, Ed Wright, Earl Matice, Lee
Carr, Marshall Carr, George Van
Valer. Late Champeau, Peter Ora
ven, Thomas Dodge, Lawrence Mar
shall, Arthur Dunsworth, Theodore
Goldsberry, Roy Allison, George
Rigg, Ralph Lane, Fritz M Kop-
sicker, Ernest Leroy, Jr., Perry
Dunsworth, Lon Davidson, George
Bricker and Arthur Letter.
The suit is filed in the United
States district court for the southern
district Of Illinois, southern division.
at Quincy, and will be tried there,
although 1t was filed at Springfield,
the seat of the federal court. 1t is
tndexed for the March, 1919 term
F. M. Ballinger, of Keokuk, and John
b. Wall, of Quincy, are attorneys for
Myrtle Stice and sign the complaint,
which alleges:
She Says They Did This.
"The said defendants on July 20,
1918, with force Of arms assaulted
the said plaintiff and with great
force and violence seized her and
forcibly and violently placed her in
an automobile and compelled her to
ride a great distance, to-wit, four
miles, and then and there with great
force and arms violently painted
plaintiff with yellow paint in which
there was large amount Of turpen-
tine, upon her head and in her, hair
and on various parts of her body,
and then and there violently and
forcibly struck the plaintiff In the
back Of her head and felled her to
the ground, and then and there vio-
1ently struck the plaintiff with
whip several violent blows on her
body.
Also, that they then and there
compelled the plaintiff to walk
large distance, to-wit, four miles,
while she was clad in nothing but
her night gown. and other wrongs
and injuries to the plaintiff then and
there did"
Says Detained From Her Business.
On account of which, the complaint
goes on, "the said plaintiff was then
and there greatly hurt, bruised and
wounded and became and was sick,
sore, lame and disordered, and so
remained and continued for a long
space Of time, to-wit, from thence
and will continue to be so
sick, sore, lame and disordered for
a long space of time hereafter"
And moreover, she thereby sui.
fered and underwent great pain and
anguish Of mind, and was hindered
and prevented from performing and
transacting her necessary affairs
and labor"
In addition, the complaint says.
she paid out "a large sum of money