St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-21

able rest, probably vexed him out OF SELF
control when he saw the cause OF the jury's
deadlock. Far more significant thsn the
finger shaking Of the irasci5lc Mr.. Jones we're
the Oninous words written during the night,
by some one OF the men, on the wall abore
the drowsy head Of the uncoaquvrabie brace
Of women:
"DeirAuders: we are tired Of women"
Nov. this is just too perfectly awful for
anything in this free COUNTRY. It's evident
that the jury system where II includes women
doesn't run whit smoother than the course
OF true love, even when the coaehman drives.
In addition to the cOntumeiy Of Mr.. Jones
and his nenacing finger shaking, Mr.. Judd,
another ehurl, said TO the two bSdgered lady
jurors:
That unless We found guilty our action
would be resented by the people. The fran
ehise should be taken from Us, and we
shouldn't ST on any more juries = One Ofthe
ladies answered that she was above such force
aud coercion to which the ungentle and Hn-
ger-shaking Jones reinforcing the dangerous
Judd responds ''that she would find herself
Injured" implying that he would attend to
IL Why even the judge told them they
would be challenged on all future CASES.
Now TO be sure the lawyers do the chsl-
longing, and unless they united against the
two siiff-neeked ladies, and made the Judge
the mouthpiece of their nefarious
collision, bow could he know Il, or did he
tell an untruth 70 wreak his spite on two res
olute lady Jurors who had the nerve TO hold
out against threats, fnger-shakings in the
lace, aud savage writing on the wall above
their devoted, but at the time, drowsy heads.
Who can telll
Two pictures are suggested TO the minds
eye by this celebrated case. First, Of Mrs.
Ludlow (who said that jury delIberation was
too weighty a charge for women'D, and
acted upon her dictum by bringing in a bed
irom the clerks Office, arranging II on chairs,
and sleeping the balance Of the night, with
Mrs. Curtis resting beside her, who was
affected with the same belief.
The second picture is Of the stern, inflexi-
bic pair OF dissenting lady Jurors, wlnkiug
and doing bolt upright in their chairs the
live long night for Justices sake-onIy to
read In the morning the grim sentence
written above their heads:
"Defrauders; we are tired Of women"
Poor things, aud they were undoubtedly
so tired. tool But in the immortal words Of
Marco BoEzarls, ''to suffer for liberty Is a
pleasure, and not a pain.r
Possibly the disagreement IN this snug
Cling case Of the Lone Fisherman arises from
sympsthies in the wonisnly nature para
mount 10 every other consideration. The
average woman may not be at heart a rake
but undeniably she is a smuggler, aud it Is
rather unlikely that she would help to con-
yict one. This is the clue
to the bitch in the Lone Fisher
man business where the ladies were
at lOggerhesds-one faction swayed by sub
servIence to custom in being ''guided by the
judgment, experiences, aud better informa-
ton" q men as Jurors, and the other fac
ton honestly true 10 the natural impulse Of
shielding the smuggler and letting him of
easy.
In either view Of the matter and iuferen
tally Of course in this case, ladies are not TO
be felicitated upon their success as jurors.