New Britain herald., 1919-03-13
ATTEMPT ID VAMP
 JURY IS FOILED
Her Ankles Too Dazzling So They
 Are Fenced in

New York, March 13.-Anothct mystery" developed yesterday at the op"nine Of Che retrial of Mrs. Betty men. charged with attempting 10 ex- 1 tort $2l5 from Eugene P. Herman. | mead of the Herman Motor Truck company, It was discovered that the
 witness stand in the criminal branch or the supreme court, from which she treated jurors in her first trial to generous display of shapeIy. silk-cIad 1 ankles, had been fenced in overnight
 so that only the head and shoulders
 Of witness arc visible from the jury 1 box.
 Throughout the day reporters vain.
 " tired 10 learn who had ordered the stand converted into d pen. but ,nc one seemed proud enough of the idca TO clam it's authorship. Justice Dsv- lS presiding at the retriaI smiIf,rlv den1od that he had ordered the work done. and Chief Assistant District .xt- torneN Talley, who is prosecuting Mrs, Inch, also entered a denial withou- a smile
 Yet there if is. q fence on two sides with a swinging lattice door. which GlNeS ii a strong resemblance to tbe family entrance to certain caxse which will soon disa ppear. Juror No 1 sits near this door but even he can not possibly get a glimpse of anvthfnp within.
 When attendants locked the court room Tuesday evening the witness stand looked just as it had when Mrs Inch last OrCupiCd it, but when the same attendants opened the court room yesterday morning they found the work complete. A jantor said fl had been done by carpenters who told him they were acting "upon orders of the court" Tn front of the witness stand and running from the judges bench to the jury box is solid board, four feet high. On the left is the swinging door. The arrangement makes fl impossible for any one to see below the shoulders of a witness ex- cept the justicc
 When Mrs. Inch, blue gowned blue halted and blue silk stOckinged-a fact not gleaned when she was in the witness chair-entered the courtroom she immediately roticed the ankle
 
 seemed puzzled but smilingIy again, asked:
 "What is that? A spite fence?"
 "I am surprised that they didn't build box that would completely hide Mrs. Inch, and let her shout out Of the top Of it, or else testify by tel ephOne, SO she could not be seen at all.' said her counsel, William J. Fal- lon.
 "Isnt it ridculous?" was Mrs. nchs final connect. Though she admitted she was malignant" because' my picture has not been in the pa per for a whole week." she refused to pose seated in the ankle-pen.
 About a month ago Mr. Tailey an- nounccd that Mrs. Inch wnuld not bo permitted i3 display her ankles too freely Ul court .t tNc r.triai. When told Of this Mir. iN''l' .1jd he" ankles were permanonj IN ut@'i1>d to her and she could not rh"' k 'hnn nor leave them outside the drrr. She added that two things she could not forgive in 1 woman were "etunidity ard fat Since then the Inch arkls tnot a measuremenD has DeeD much written of and discuss n.j.
 The jury in the frs; trial dJsHcrcrd. eleven jurors, if was said being folF It is charged ate called Ep Mr. Herrman's Wife anu told her ', that ho had had two young women iN his apartment in Mrs Herrman's aS Sence at Atlantic City. Later s..I called Nr. Herman uD at his CffiCa and told him. it was testified, that he had bCcn responsible for ali operation being performed upon ono May Hayes, for which she, Mrs. Inch, had paid z he bill. Mr. Herman met Mrs. Tncn the next day by appointment and sUn accepted $@15 from him iH maThld hills. fTor G1rcst followed.
 May Hayes Was not produced at the first trial. tho defense asserting she had been spirited away. Mr. Fallon announced yesterday that she is no's in thc city and will be placed on the, stand "it necessary Several times, outside the courtroom. Mrs. Inch has threatened to involve wealthy New YOrkers who. she said were reSpOnSi- 5lc for her prosecution.
 When adjournment was taken NCs- erday afternoon. eleven jurors had Dcen accepted. Six are married men. r
 Another mystery in the trial is the Identity of the dGGenG@Ut, Her fantly name is not known and sine ha% per i%tontIy refused to disclose it. Her | present residence is also unllnoWnr ave to herself and few iutimaj2s |"