Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — SAY THEY TARRED GIRL [ARTICLE]

SAY THEY TARRED GIRL

Sensation Sprung in Case at Lincoln Center, Neb. Prominent Men Accused of the Outrage Upon the School Teacher Confess—Town Stirred Up Lincoln Center, Kan., Nov. 17. Pleas of guilty suddenly announced in the circuit court by three of the most prominent men accused in connection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the Shady Bend school teacher, carried the state’s attorneys almost off their feet with surprise. These announced pleas of guilty: Everett G. Clark, president of a Shady Bend milling company; Watson Scranton, Shady Bend farmer; Jay Fitzwater, Shady Bend farmer. Judge Grover reserved sentence.

Miss Chamberlain was in court, accompanied by her mother and brother, Manville Chamberlain. Since Miss Chamberlain was decoyed to a lonely spot on a country road, seized by a band of more than a dozen men, her clothing torn off and her body coated with tar Aug. 7 sue had remained in retirement in her home in the little Shady Bend community, where she taught school and where it is said her popularity with men caused jealous wives to urge husbands to inflict on her torture which aroused a storm of indignation throughout the state.