THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, MO, Friday, Feb. 25, 1927. J.P. HEARING BROUGHT OUT BIG CROWD WED. The hearing of two young men charged with attempted rape as the result of an alleged attack on a young woman from Esther was set for hearing in the court of Justice of the Peace T. W. Martin in Flat River, Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock, and attracted a large crowd to the court room. The attack occurred Sunday night at the end of West Main Street, Flat River. All parties concerned were about eighteen years of age. The girl's cries for help attracted residents in the neighborhood and constable Boswell was summoned and made the arrests. The preliminary hearing was waived and bond set at three thousand dollars each for appearance in Circuit Court. Roy Downs and Alfred Greer are the men and the girl is Leona Womack. Justice Martin had assistant prosecuting attorney O. Lee Munger read the two Missouri statutes covering rape and attempted rape, stressing the punishment of death for the first and a long term of imprisonment for the latter, and then spoke to those in the court room on the seriousness of such cases, suggesting that improper supervision on the part of parents may be somwhat to blame for such happenings.