The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-04
JURY ROOM SECRETS OUT.
COMPLAINTS OF JUROR TrRRELL sENr
TO THE RECORDER.

on Friday OF ManSlauph ter. was wtthtn
an Ace of a MI.trisI-The Grsad Jury -
| Invs-uRate These storis. Tomorrow.
Some remarkable testimony was given By
| witnesses for the prosecution In the case Of
| James Donnely. who was on trial for murder
| 10 the FIRST degree before Recorder smyth last
| week. On Friday one OF these Witnesses
| Patrick +. Collins, was called In rebuttsl By
| Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre. Collins
testified that Walter IIaiRht q haneor-on In
the saloon Of Felix Donney. brother OF the
prisoner. had asked him to 90 to the Tombs
| prison and have talk with Donnelly. who
| was locked up there. Collins went to the
Tombs. and there he testified. Donnelly
| offered him $500. at the same time insisting
that he leave the country. Donnelly. he said.
| told him to go to Ireland. and promised TO
| LOOK out for his wife and children.
| Another witness who was called in rebuttsl
on Friday was Charles Davis. who, earlier In
tho trial. had testified against the prisoner.
| He was called because one OF the witnesses for
| the defence. q man named rafferty,. told the
| lawyers for Donnelly that Davis had told him
| that he had testified incorrectly before the
| Coroner. Davis testified In rebuttal that he
had met rafferty, with Felix Donnelly in the
lntter's saloon one day last month. They knew
| that Davis was to be called as witness for the
people. and. after having talked with him for
/
that II no would get mixed up in his cross.ex-
| animation he would be well paid for 1t.
| Who said thstp put in Mr. Mcintyre.
| Rafferty," replied the witness. " He then
asked me to 60 down to the Tombs TO see
James Donnelly. but didn't CO."
The crime for which Donnelly was tried was
the shooting Of Charles Madden in Felix Don
nelly's saloon. at Twenty-eig street and
| Eighth avenue. on May 70 last Both Recorder
| smyth and Mr.. Mcintyre heard In tho course
| OF the trial stories that somebody had said
| that the jury had been fixed" The case was
| given to the jury at 5 o'clock on Friday. and
! they wero marched to the small jury room
| the third floor. There was no news from the
| jury room for long time. At length q mos
sage came down from Foreman George Craw-
ford. 1t was handed to Recorder Smyth. who
was waiting In Clerk CAROLS Office The Re-
corder read 1t and sent for Mr. Mcintyre. and
The ccntents OF this message. as we'll as
number OF others which came down from the
when Il was learned that the first message re-
complaint from Foreman Crawford against
one o. the jurors. In the message the fore
James TyTreI A Of & East 18th street M had
been seen talking with Felix Donnelly. the
building during the noon recess. and that
Tyrrell refused to vote any way save for an
| Other messages which were sent from the
| jury room were to the effect that the fourth
the employ OF the Adams Express Company.
Ss9 sS ySse sass h9T an m
seen A in ' eonSsrsaion with fsa f Donnsiig
priests who had testified to the good character
Later 4 was learned that two Of the Jurors
bsfnG ioefed Hp to he eect that theS SsS
been s T ann mo- ~ the sctIOHs OF
/ a 81
Muhlsnbrueh. candy manpfsetursr OF 4S+
While lgs9rw
the trial. Muhienbrachs complaint Was to the
| Tyrrell kept nudging him and saying: :" You're
d, q D0snsys HEsn s, You're
annoying to.Muhien bruch that he wrote q com:
plant TO the Recorder. and after that Tyrrell
Fsgan's COZ plant was to the effect that Tyr
rell. while one OF the witnesses for the defence
he's innoeent2 That witness proves his inno-
~ This was kept Up until Tegsn turned on
also wrote a complaint to the Rscordsr.
AZ Y O'clock Friday night the Recorder sent
upon a verdict In ten minutes he would TocS
them Nd for the night. Ten minutes later
TSTa SsPd:s ssst tai the
s SsTse Wien
nounced the verdict he said:
slaSs6, ,ss In tho az. dsTfss: but reecm@Snd
didn't satisfy I.FS5 wHo
The prisoner. was then remanded to the
Tombs to await sentence and the jury were
SorIiaOa SaroT Tylre saw Assistant Sscs
Attorney McIntyre talking with some gen
cd, he said: What's the matterY
~. Nothing" said Mr; MGintyTs. ;exeeptins
soon talking to the defendants brother during
Which ono was 1t ?" asked Tyrell.
oh guess you know" responded Mr. Mo-
hSw do you fnd out all these things any
What do YOU suppose we keep detectives
around here tor" said Mclntyre, aud then
Recorder smyth refused 70 talk aboutths
matter yesterday. although he acknowledged
the receipt OF "A number OF messages from the
jury. That the communications were Ol al
Mr. MeIntyre said that III the matte Would no
thoroughly investigated and the evidence laid
Di FOREMAN SH cGTawford was rotlcent but ae-
knowled dyed that he sent u note to the Recorder
from the jury room 10 the elect that one OF the
Jurors duhleuGTae6 aud Fegan had told him.
no said OF Iyrrells actions In court ON the
fiyo for conviction OF manslaughtsr in the first
degree. three for murder In the second degree.
count stood eight Tor manslauRhter and four
for acquitaL The next bs o; made u
ten for conviction Of granddaughter and
two for Aequittal. the two ueIng Jurors liam
mond and TyrTslL After cons iderabe aTgu-
ment Hammond came around with the others
on condition that there should be strong
recommendation to mercy For long time
TyrTsll stuck out, saying that n II took week
ha would agree TO but one verdict Aequittal.
Al this Iunetgre Juror Hugo Berthqld was
unless a verdict was reached in ten minutes
the Jury would te Locked up ior the night Inc
bear on TyTrsll. and he finally Yielded
Juror TyrTsll, when seen by reporter. said
elevator on FfidaS IL was only TO say. Good
day" however, he said. lie also seknowl-
edged that he had spok en- TO the two priests. one
Of whom WAS Father Ackenna Of brooklyn.
he said but only as hs would speak TO any
priest. lie had done his duty as a Juror. he
said, and that was all there was 10 It, Here
Juror Hammond said that he had expected