TRIAL’ FOR ADULTERY

Press, Volume C, Issue 29673, 17 November 1961, Page 10

TRIAL’ FOR ADULTERY

Warning To Reporter

Prtaa Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, November 15. A reporter for the Londor “Daily Mirror” said todaj that she was surrounded bj a “hissing, booing mob” iz the Dutch village of Stap horst, when she walked front the street last night askinf questions about the “nigh trial” of two persons accusec of adultery. The reporter. Miss Paul: James, said one member o the town ordered her to re move her lipstick and shoo! his fist in her face. Staphorst is a small vil lage where last week tin residents dragged a dung cart containing the accusec man and woman through the streets until early morning The villagers wanted thi two people to vow not to sei each other again. The incident was the sub ject of a police investiga tion. In the “Daily Mirror” re port, Miss James wrote: ** was surrounded by a hissing booing mob—the same kin< of mob that dragged thi couple through the street in a dung cart at the week end in a six-hour parade o shame. “An elder of the iron-cla< Calvinist creed, by which thi villagers’ grey huimourles lives are ruled, shook hi fist in my face. Then h ordered me to wipe off m; pink lipstick before th shrieking mob would let m walk on. ‘Crazy woman,’ h yelled, ‘do not dare to pain your face here.’ ”