Evening star., 1924-09-30

lived in Myersville. when she was
overtaken by Mrs. Shank and Harry
Leatherman in an automobile Mrs
Shank attacked her with a club, she
said. beat her savagely tore her
clothes from her in a rage and ap-
piled the tar and feathers In the
meantime a. mob had gathered and
egged on Mrs. Shank. She charged
that 1t was Harry Leatherman.
storekeeper of MyersvilIe, himself a
Dunkard of the most conscientious
religious type, who stirred up the
mob, supplied the tar and feathers
and tarring stick, and melted Mrs
Shank to her furious attack.
Favored Dragging Victim.
Miss Grandon said that Leatherman
actually handed the tar and feathers
to Mrs Shank and that it was Paul
Grossniskle and Calvin Shank who
held her while Mrs. Shank beat her.
Afterward she asked for an automo-
bile to take her to the home of Mrs
Kennedy. and she said that Leather
man replied that she ought TO be tied
to the rear of a machine and dragged
through Myersville. About this time
she was rescued by farmer, James
Whipp, living nearby, and taken to his
home, where the tar was removed, pain
fully, with lard and soap.
All this Miss Grandon told in a free
and easy, offhand manner, not the
slightest embarrassed at the outlaws
OF the curious spectators when per-
Sonal questions were put to her. Aft
er her testimony she sat with her
friend, Mabel Mills. also a 2o-year-old
bob-halred brunette, with whom she
first went to the little hamlet of Nv
ersville, and who has been released
temporarily from the House of Cor
rection to be a witness for the State.
Both seemed to take the trial purely
as an amusing incident, Miss Grandon
showing no signs of the narrowing
experiences through which she had
passed.
Leatherman's is the test case. on
the outcome of which will rest the
cases of the other IS men indicted
Tor tarring and feathering and 10
for rioting.
Defense Counsel Baked,
Reno S. Harp and the other attor-
neys for Leatherman obviously were
chagrined at not being able to bring
in anything about Dorothy Grandon's
past behavior. They were not al
lowed to question her on her reIa-
tions to Lloyd Shank, husband of
Mary Shank, with whom she had heen
friendly, Mrs. Shank alleged. Under
cross-examination she admitted she
bad been arrested and convicted of
being drunk AND disorderly in Ha-
gerstown.
However, the judges would not al
low her to tell why she had left
HagerStown to go to Myersville or
why she had changed her name. from
Lorraine Pearroll. Sitting jauntily
and complacently in front of tho
judges, she laughed outright when
she sehsed the disappointment of the
spectators at missing sensational de-
tails.
Several minor witnesses also were
called yesterday, one a chemist tes-
tifying that the tar used was road
tar, stiff and viscous and very irri-
tating to the skin.
Attorneys for the defense in the
cases of the 10 men indicted an
nounced they will call rs witnesses.
William A Storm, States attorney,
expects to call Is. Immediately after
the Leatherman case was called, the
defense attorneys entered a plea of
not guilty and asked for a jury trial
The jurors selected were: John p
Style. foreman; j. Calvin Fox, Archie
w. Ogley. Richard ]. Allnut, Grover
Trout, William %, Curfman. Charles
F. kreh, G. Harry Cramer, Allan NJ
Settler, Bernard w. Wilson, Clyde
w. Smith and Ulysses G Hooper