The Mena weekly star., 1922-03-16
MIXED JURY, AND
 TURMOIL FOLLOWS
Husbands Rave When Wives Spend Two Nights With Other Men--Room Where Seven Women Had to Sleep
 With 5 Men Had No Partitions.

St. Paul, March s.-What to do with mixed juries overnight2
 This question has started furore in St. Paul, following the story told by seven women and five men who were locked up for two nights while deliberating the fate of George Thoemke. accused of stealing a motor ear. and finally found guilty.
 Irate husbands of the women sformed the court. and one of them was released from charge of con tempt of court by Judge Collins be- cause the court held that there were extanuating circumstances, and that the objector was not in a rational frame of mind.
 Sympathy With Husbands.
 St. Paul citizens, including Gov. J. A. o. Preus, today sympathized with the irate husband, and clubwomen clamored for better treatment of the women.
 The first night, according to the story told by Miss Grace Williams, the only unmarried woman on the jury, there wasn't even a curtain Tn the room the men and women had to use as sleeping quarters.
 "We argued until late, and nnally A man yawned and said something about going to bed" she said Tt was very embarrassing. We had to put out the lights and get ready for bed in the dark. It was inconvenient, .A Ia ha bailiff would come in and say that there were five husbands outside the door who wanted to know how things were going. They were very angry
 Second Night Thin Curtain.
 "The second night we had thin curtain between us--the men and the women. It was not much better"
 After the first night, one of the women told her husband how she had to undrcss in the same room with five strange men with the light showing in from the moon, it was stated. This husband went to Judge Catlin and, ac- cording to the judge used full and unexpurgated vocabulary in describ- ing his feelings"
 he second night was described by la s. Josephine Brown, another mcm- Der of the jury.
 "The curtain was transparent and we had no protection and the men al faced the wall while some of us pulled sheets from the bed to protect the other women while they disrobed," she said. "We didn't sleep much but that was mainly because one of the women talked all night, The men snored on peacefully"
 Women Were Better Sports"
 Jailer Hart said the women were better sports than the men" Tor it was one of the men members of the jury who first demanded segregation.
 It was an intolerable situation" said Governor Preus today. ''I cer- tainly would not consent to my wife undergoing such an ordeal. This situation must not continue. Some provision must be made so that women jurors may have at least little privacy"
 The governor said that steps would be taken to see that men and women on juries are separated hereafter when it is necessary to lock them up over night.
 But there are hundreds of husbands here who say that this precaution will be unnecessary, for their wives are never going to serve on jury.
 Jane Addams Has Remedy.
 Chicago. March S.-"If lack of sleeping facilities is the only thing that is preventing women from serv- ing on juries, then it seems to me the difficulty is easily solved. Put in the partitions"
 This was the comment of Miss Jane Addams, noted social worker, on the St. Paul case.
 ''It seems absurd to gay that mixed juries are a failure because women object to staying in the same room with the men jurors all night,' she said. "The jury should be kept to- gether insofar as that means away from the public. But that does not mean the same room."