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Miss Drees that he had had this con versation with Mrs. Cohenour and so Miss Drees knew that Mrs. Cohenour wanted to.see her.
 When school was dismissed Miss Drees said the conversation started with Mrs. Cohenour stating that Miss Kennedy's class, the Fourth B, re- cited as well as Miss Drees's Fourth A class. She said Mrs. Cohenour then criticised the method that is in vogue in the public schools, where the pupil recites without being corrected. Miss Drees said that she stated that she could not make any change in this method of teaching as it was specified by the state board.
 She said the matter of her punish ing Eileen was then taken up and that Mrs. Cohenour had said that she could not do that again. Miss Drees replied that she would if the oc- casion demanded.
 She said that Mrs. Cohenour then said that if she Miss Drees) punish ed her daughter the way she had a boy in the second grade (no name was HheHtioleu) lide ShC Wouiu horsewhip her.
 Miss Drees stated that she could not discuss that case with her more than that she had not whipped the boy mentioned herself. Miss Drees testified that Mrs. Cohenour wanted to discuss the case of the boy with her further and that she then spoke to Miss Kennedy saying that they had better be going, whereupon Miss Kennedy left the room to go to her own room to get her things and Miss Drees left Mrs. Cohenour to go to the rear of her room to get her things. She said that when she had gotten her things on she came back up another aisle with Mrs. Cohenour following her and leaving the room she went to Miss Kennedy's room. 'She said that as she entered Miss Kennedy's room she attempted to close the door after her but Mrs. Cohenour threw her weight on it and pushing her back, struck her in the face. Miss Drees says that she then tried to defend herself while Mrs. Cohenour got hold of her hair. She said she then pushed Mrs. Cohe- nour over, with Mrs. Cohenour still holding @her hair, and held Mrs. Cohenour down.
 V Miss Dress said that she then told Miss Kennedy to get chair and beat Mrs. Cohenour so that she would let go of her hair. Miss Ken nedy would not do this and left the room to get assistance in separating them after she ,vainly tried to get Mrs. Cohenous to let go of Miss Drees' hair.
 She returned with Mrs. Ferguson and they were separated, Miss Ken nedy then leaving with Miss Drees.
 On cross-examination Miss Drees was asked if she had threatened Mrs. Cohenour with knife and she said that she had not, but that she had played with knife she had used in sharpening pencils, while talking to Mrs. Cohenour but had had no in- tentions of using it.
 She, was asked if she had called Mrs. Cohenour an ignoramus and she said that she had not but that when Mrs. Cohenour had stated that she was prejudiced she said that she had replied that this was an ignorant remark.
 Miss Kennedys testimony was much the same, covering the period that she was 8 witness from the time that she brought her class into Miss Dree's room until school was dismissed and from the time Miss Drees's entered her room until she left with Miss Drees. When asked who in her opinion, was the agressor, she stated Mrs. Cohenour was.
 Mrs. Ferguson testified that she had came at the request of Miss Kennedy to help part the two. Court was then adjourned.
 When court convened at 1:15 the defense put Mrs. Cohenour on the stand and she told her version of the affairs from the time she went to visit the school in the afternoon to after the trouble. Mrs. Cohenour's testimony coincided with that of the prosecution in the main, up to the time she entered Miss Kennedy's room, and the climax of the trouble came.
 She said that she had gone at the request of Mir. Linville to whom she had talked to on the phone that morning and who had told her to try to straighten the matter out and that if she could not to come back and he would take the matter up further
 She went to the front door and finding it locked went around to the back door. She went into Miss Kennedy's room to hear her daughter recite, after which she had gone tc Miss Drees's room during the re- cess and asked if she could hear the class in there recite, the Fourth A, and afterwards stay and hear her daughter recite again in that class room.
 She stayed after the pupils were dismissed and started the conversa- ton by telling Miss Drees that she felt sorry for a little girl who hac been told she had to stay after school because she could not pronounce the