The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-09-11

documents filed MS part OF the evidence
with which they could refresh their mem.
orics. Counsellor defense wanted them to
nave everything, even the thirteen or
fourteen hundred pages Of printed record
llili oil all sorts Of irrelevant and improper
matter Finally they agreed with counsel
lor prosecution to permit the jury to take
all oilicial documents filed In the case and
Us well the note books which some MEM
0ers Of tho jury kept through the trial, and
then The crowd scattered 10 lunch. -
Az O'Clock Judge Wylie came in again
ana put his umbrella aud Int In front OF
nm. Then hc asked the Deputy Marshal
TO say TO the jury that the Court desired TO
near from them once more. The court
room crowd, US before, stood on tip.toes,
WIN eyes fixed Oh that low md narrow
doorway 10 the right Of the bench, through
which Gnlteau used 10 be brought into
court every morning and evening, and
through which jury after jury come with
varied verdicts. Tho Deputy Marshal re.
turned and whispered to the Judge that
the Jury would be ready 10 report In few
minutes. This whetted the curiosity OF
me crowd. who regarded verdict rs to!er.
ably certain, and one or two rather fresh
correspondents proceeded 10 write verdict
dispatches MS well as they could in advance
Of the TACT. Before they got through, though
II was hall past, and Judge Wylie, who
had been staring steadily for some minutes
Ut brown spot on the opposite wall, linv.
ing disposed OF his afternoon mail, an.
nonnced 10 the eXpeCtant and somewhat
impatient crowd that another recess could
be had until q o'clock, the Jury evidently
being unready. The men and women, 50
often disappointed, got patiently of the
uoGk rails, the window lodges, the benches
anu the chairs, and went to their offices
and their homes. Meanwhile the jury ate
Il substantial lunch and discussed their
verdict. 80 - -
The one old.iashioned students lamp
on Judge Wylie's desk (the only illumi-
nator in the dingy old Court.room) was
lighted few minutes after six this even.
ing, MS theCourt.house began to breed dark
shadows. Judge Wylic, us fresh und digni.
hed rs ever, sat in in his great arm. chair,
behind the desk, with closed eyes, waiting
Tor the jury. A crowd as great as at any
other time since the trial, again swarmed
over everything and every place 1.-THE
Judges desk not excepted) in the Court.
room. Presently-and just as the Court
room was becoming very gray and somber
Foreman Dickson's tall form stopped in
through the low doorway, on the right OF
the bench. Everybody rose on tiptoe;
every eye was fastened on Dickson's quiet
smile. The other jurors had filed in behind
him; and the clerk was calling the roll
again. while the quaint old crier kept tally.
Counsels' practieed eyes saw that some
conclusions had been reached, and they
leaned forward and gazed earnestly ut
D:ickson's face, sharply outlined in the
light Of the Judge'slamp. Everybody fol-
lowed their example. But Foreman Dick
son could only pique the universal curiosi.
ty with half verdict, which the Court
would not receive, despite Of lngeroll's im-
pressive appeal for relief to the suspense Of
The defendants, and then the jury was sent
to their comfortable quarters for the night,
and Judge Wylie took recess until to-
morrow morning. which he carefully ex-
planned was not Sunday, but the Court
day Of Friday. Alto o'clock the lamp was
put out, the Judge put on his hat, and
everybody went home. The defendants are
suffering, tonight, us though on nettles.