SCHOOL TEACHERS CHEERED.
Not Wrong to Seal Lips of Whisper-
ing Pupil With Court Plaster.
Miss Edith Wirt, the Rosedale school teacher recently arrested for sealing the lips of a whispering pupil with courtplaster, was yesterday given a hearing before Judge M. H. Newhall, in the south division of the city court, Kansas City, Kas. After hearing the evidence, Miss Wirt was completely exonerated from any blame. In dismissing the charge against her, Judge Newhall stated that he felt like taxing the costs of the prosecution against the complaining witness. He said that he at one time had been a school, and that the courtplaster treatment for troublesome pupils was easy.
The decision of the court was received with applause by about thirty school teachers who attended the hearing.
