The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-07
THE JURY STILL OUT
In the Garrison Case 1t Asks the
Court Momentous Question.
4 DISAGREEMENT is PREDICTED.
The Court Room Crowded all Day
with spcctators..-Dr. lIalrd's Over
coat Sont Into thcJury Room, ut the
Request or tho Jury...Dr. Garrison
bears tho Suspense Well...To.day
may Settle 1t. ~ Alba.

Tho agony III thc uarIlaoh cHso stili
continues. After being out from nine
o'clock yesterday morning until four
teen minutes to ten ut night, with the
usual time for dinner and supper, tho
jury had still failed to agree and werc
dismissed for tho night,
Judge PAUL opened court yesterday
morning at 0 o'clock, and tho jury, not
having agreed upon . Verdict, returned
TO its room.
When the jury retired the court
room, which had been pretty well
filed with spectators, Trimmed ont con-
siderably. a good many lett entirely,
but the majority gathered about the
corridors and on hcstuirway, Every
body was discussing tho probabilities,
whether 4 verdict OF atquittal or
verdict of guilty rs charged in the in
dictment, or compromise verdict
would be agreed upon. Some thought
the jury would disagree, some even 90
Ing SO iar US 10 base thoir belief on the
actions Of certain jurymen during the
trial, believing they saw in their be-
havior . predisposition toward either
the state or tho defendant.
At twelve minutes after y o'clock tho
anxiously awaited knocklon the inside
Of the door OF the jury room scattered
the knots Of men in the corridors, and
all piled into tho court room. Sheriff
Stccnrod announced that tho jury
wished 10 ask 4 question, and the twelve
men entered tho room. Judge PAUL
read the question, which was printed
on q sheet OF paper: docs 4 threat, ut
tered in words, unaccolnpanied by
movement OF the body, constitute a
hostile demonstration ?" pdtdoes not"
Judge PAUL answered. THO jury was
again dismissed to tho room. Colonel
Arnc.t, counsel for the prisoner, re-
qnestod Judge PAUL. to answer the ques.
ton in this wise: "a threat accom-
panied by 10 movement of the hands
or body, does not constitute hostile
demonstration The Judge deemed his
answer sufficient reply, and thought
it covered the case fully. Thirty min
utes later the jury was brought into
court and was dismissed for dinner, not
having yet agreed upon verdict.
At two o'clock the jury was again
brought into court, and there being no
objection by either tho state or the de-
fence, DR.. Baird's overcoatc was taken
into the jury room. The jury remained
out until hall past five o'clock and was
brought into court. Foreman Williams
replied to Clerk Mitchell's query, that
the jury had not agreed upon n verdict
and desired 4 night session. Thereupon
the twelve were dismissed, and went to
supper.
WAITING FOR THE VERDICT.
With the jury most OF the hangers on
about tho court room retired for supper.
When the jury returned at half past
seven o'clock. and were at once dis.
missed 10 the jury room. While the jury
was out the crowd in the court room
and the corridors kept increasing.
"What will the verdict be" was the
question on every ones lip. Little
knots Of men stood about and discussed
the probable outcome OF the jury's deli
bcrations. Various were the. opinions
expressed. One man told another
within the reporters hearing, that
he, il on tho jury, wouldtivote for
the doctors acquittal, while the
other was just as strong OF the contrary
opinion; he could not see how the Jury
could fail to give the prisoner the full
extent OF the law. OF the five possible
yerdicts, murder in the second degree,
voluntary manslaughter, involuntary
manslaughtcr, assault and battery and
not guilty, voluntary manslaughter and
not guilty seemed to have tG0.call with
the crowd. The long deliberations of
the jury, tho question that was asked
in the morning OF the court the i'm
portance evidently attached to Dr..
Balrd's overcoat, taken in connection
with tho remark OF juror in open
court the evening before, that Ile could
not SEQ how the bullet could have pene.
trated bothlapel and body OF the coat, if it
was buttoned up in the manner testified
10 by witnesses for the state;iall these
seemed to beindications tothe public
that DR.. Garrison's plea OF solf-dciense
was receiving a considerable'sii are OF
attention. ~
At half past ten o'clock there was a
sur IN the court room, and some OF the
loungers inthe corridorhurriea into tho
court room. 1t was only false alarm,
however. Sheriff Steenrod had been
directed by Judge PAUL, to inquire OF
the jury ii there was any possible chance
Of Il verdict being arrived 'tgFhey ask
Tor twenty minutes" the sheriff replied,
and they were given until quarter to
zen o'clock to make up their minds.
speculation was now rife as TO the
meaning OF this request, whether it
meant that the jury was on, the eve of
Hndlng verdict, and that it needed only
lew moro ballots, or whether. the jury
only desired to put in as much time as
possible considerin. the verdict before
1eNring Tor tho night. As the moment,
PERHAPS THE DECISIVE ONE,
approached, DR.. Garrison dosisted from
talking with his, friends and looking
straight ahead, leaning his head on his
hands, awaited the return OF the arti
,ers oil his tate. Beside him sat his
brother, John, and behind him his
!a'her and his brother-in-law, II. L.
McCammon.
, AT quarter TO ten o'clock Judge
raul entered the court, and the room
soon illed with spectators. Citizens OF
every degree were sprinklcd through
me audience. City officials, prominent
business men and workingmen. OF all de-
Grees made up tho audience. 1t was
certainly q representative audience.
!, AT II minutes to 10 the jury filed into
mo room. AS the mon filed past DR..
garrison no scanned closely the face OF
every one. All were impcrturbable,