Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-22

but we have decided to hang you to-
morrow at 10 o'clock. F"
''Oh, now, tell me, urged the boy.
run along home, Ludovic,'' said
Asbury, "and don't monkey with the
jury. We're still deliberatin.
When the boy was gone, they sat on Il
big box and talked until time hung
heavily on their hands.
"How would it do, fellows" said
Doc Miller at length, ito wake up the
jury and take another voter"
Good ideal" answered Asbury.
"And I've got way to wake 'em, !"
continued Doc. "We will use the hose. :"
There was we'll at the curb just in
front Of the stairway with a force pump
in it. The hose, which two Or three
merchants used for sprinkling the street,
was coiled up at the curb. They took it
and made the coupling and carried the
nozzle end around the corner under the
courtroom windows. Asbury held the
nozzle pointing upward while Doc and
the other man applied their strength to
the pump handle. The jet of water
mounted higher and higher until it
was above the windows, and then, with
the precision and care that a woman
bestows in watering her flower beds, he
trained the stream into the first win.
dow, and then the second and the third.
Two Of the sleeping jurymen at a
window recovered their presence of
mind after their shower bath soon
enough to look out and see Asbury be-
fore he had made good his retreat
around the corner with the hose, but
the canes and other articles they threw
went wild by several yards.
When the runaway members went
up stairs, the jury were thoroughly
awake, and they took another vote,
with the same result-5 TOT The argu-
ment was resumed with vigor, and the
constable, who had come back, was in
vited i'll out of politeness and permitted
to take part in the discussion. At 3
O'Clock they took another vote, and the
constable, not being allowed to partici-
pate, went back into the deputy prose.
cutor's room to sleep.
Doc Miller was getting restless.
''You can do as you please about
coming to verdict, " he said. "but I've
got to go and see some patients in the
country You fellows can take your
time for it. I'll be back about noon.
And all hour later they saw him driv-
ing away.
The old squire was out early. The
foreman saw him walking up the street
and called him from a window to come
back and give them some further in
structions.
when we started in" said the fore.
man, when the old man came into the
room, 1--WE had IL jurymen. Now we
can't count out but II, and we cant
come to a verdict either.
"Where is Doc?" asked the squire.
He's gone a big circuit into the
country and said he would be back al
noon"
"You don't say? If that amt nerve
Well, I'll guarantee he don't run away
from another jury. 7"
"But it was the constables fault a
much as anybody's. He went off ant
left u.s.
The squire was a comparatively new
man in the administration Of law, ant
the situation was becoming entirely too
complicated for him to unravel. HI
went away to consult the deputy prose
cutor.. In short time he came bacl
and called the foreman out.
"You didn't come anyways near tt
an agreement" he asked.
'No."
"You think there's no chance of com
ing to a verdict when Doc gets back:?"
"No. Every man has made his mind
up. The vote is always the same
to s."
The squire pulled his beard thought
fully.
Purity badly mixed up scrape, " he
said. II can't for the life of me see any
way out Of it, only to dismiss the case.
Here come the boy and his father now. u
Mr.. Harvey was disappointed OIL
learning that there had been no verdict
esquire" he said, "we've got work
on hand that's pressin, and wish we
could stop this thing right where it is
some way"
Eyes" assented the magistrate. 81
wish we could get it off our hands too.
"How would it do" suggested Mr..
Harvey, "for Ludovic to step in right
now and plead guilty and pay it off? II
wouldn't come very high, would it?''
"'Oh, no." said the squire eagerly
here was happy solution of the diff
Guilty. "I'd be as easy as I could Oh
him."
So the case was closed OH that basis.
The law was satisfied and the dignity
of the court was maintained, although
it had looked squally for awhile. Chi
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