Evening star., 1924-09-30

crying for some one to bring her
clothes. At that time, he said. all
the automobiles in the party had their
searchlights playing on the quivering
form of the girl. and others in the
crowd had turned flashlights on her
and were taunting her with jokes and
obscene remarks.
Took Girl to His Home.
Whips story is that he returned
ing body of the girl, and with the
assistance OF Lloyd Shank carried
her to his farm. where they and Mrs.
Whip cleaned off the tar and feath-
ers and put the girl to bed He tes-
titled that the girls body was badly
burned but not blistered.
His testimony to the jury was in
furious to Harry Leatherman, and he
named several others of those in
dicted as being active in the mob.
In thus testHyipg James Whip
knew that he was materially hurting
many OF his closest friends and even
men that he had grown up with, and
he knew that from now on he might
he told his story unfiinchingly.
DGten&e Move CheCke0
Samuel A. Lewis, former States at
torney, now counsel for Leatherman,
tried to show that Whip was on
friendly terms with Miss Grandon.
Lewis was overruied by the presiding
Judges. Chief Judge Hammond Urner
and Assistant Judge Robert Peters.
Much OF Whips testimony was
corroborated by his wife and by
Lloyd Shank, husband of Mrs Mary
Shank, who yesterday pleaded guilty
actually to applying the tar and
feathers.
Shank said that when he ap-
preached the mob he had heard
threats against himself also. Mrs.
Shank previously had alleged that il
was because of Dorothy Grandon's g
friendship toward her husband that
the mob had been melted to violence
and that she had been urged on by
the men to apply the tar.
Grandon, testified that as she was
walking on the road with the latter,
FIVE or six cars came up from behind /;
that Mrs. Shank and Leatherman
jumped out, and that Mary Shank
three times beat Miss Grandon over
the head with a club, which Leather
man had given her, while the victim
was being held by Calvin Shank and
Paul Grossnickle.
Says Mercy Plea Ignored.
She said Miss Grandon fell to her
knees and begged for mercy, but
that the crowd laughed and went
about it's work, everybody cursing
and making foul remarks to her.
Leatherman handed Mrs. Shank
the tar and feathers to apply. she
said. and she also told the jury that
all the lights on the autos were
turned on the girl while she was
naked.
When she tried to interfere. the
witness asserted, Ieatherman and
others threatened her with the same
treatment.
To the defense she admitted COM
ing to Myersville from Hagerstown
with Miss Grandon and that she eva
now on parole from the Maryland
House of Correction for the trial
DR.. r. " Hauver of Middletown
also testified that he had seen part
of the proceedings.
Hundreds Throng Court.
Yesterdays proceedings We're dis
appointing to the hundreds who
pushed and fought to gain a place in
the pdChed hHu IOl hlootiy
farmers and natives of Myersville and
the surrounding county, who expected
to hear sensational disclosures and
scandalous attacks from both sides.
In the first place. Mrs. Shank un-
expectedly pleaded guilty to applying
the tar and feathers, and said moth
ing. She had been scheduled to set
off the fireworks with a series of
startling and discriminating charges.
The spectators obviously were disap-
pointed at missing the choice scandal
they expected from her. At the re-
quest of her attorneys, sentence was
deferred until after the trial OF the
10 mon indicted. She is liable to a
penitentiary sentence OF from IS
months to 10 years.
Then, too, the spectators were de-
MED hearing of the past life of Dor
othy Grandon, before she dropped in
on the quiet little Dunkard town of
Myersyille, and in her short visit of
only eight days caused such a COM
motion. Chief Judge Urner and As
sociate Judge Peter, presiding at the
trial; ruled that all questions must
pertain. to the tar and feather incident
itself This was q blow to the defense.
as attorneys for Leatherman, around
whom the trial centered following the
plea Oi 1uIO. oh0hn, WI NV AUiC
to ask any questions relating to Miss
Grandon's previous conduct
Girl Takes stand.
Miss Grandon. who has been
held in the county Jail since July
"a, the night of the tarring, as
a material witness for the State, was
the first to testify yesterday. The
victim of tho assault took the stand,
clad neatly in black, and in an un-
abashed and bold manner told her
story, going into the lurid details of
the assault of the angry mob when
she was stripped and beaten and
tarred and feathered while deeing
Myersyille.
AoooPding 70 her teatimony. she
was on The road from Hyersville to