The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-19
JETT JURY is HUNG
BELIEF AT JACKSON is THAT JET
AND WHITE
WILL NOT BE CONVICTED.
1T is SAID TWO JURORS ARE HOLD
ING OUT FOR CONVICTION.

Intense Anxiety Prevails I'm Breath
lit County as to the Result-It
May De That no Verdict VIII BE
Rendered Before TO-mOrrOw-Fnc-
ton Behind the Defendants Well
Pleased With the Prospect for
Their ReIease-ReiEn of Terror Is
still ON at jackson.
Jackson, KY, June 1S.-As expected
here, the jury in the cases of Curtis
Jett and Thomas White, charged with
the murder of j. w. Marcum, has been
unable to agree on a verdict. The
case has been in the hands of the jury
all the afternoon, and tonight it is
stated that at least two jurors are
holding out for conviction. while the
others are divided. most OF them fav
orng acquittal.
The jurors went to bed early and
there will be no report before to-mor-
row
During this suspense there has been
intense anxiety about the Court House
and throughout the town in discussing
what might follow a verdict either of
guilty, acquittal or of compromise on
Imprisonment. The indications are that
the jury finally will report that it has
disagreed and ask to be discharged.
All hope of conviction seemed to be
given up here tonight.
State VIII Not Rest.
1t is not expected that the prosecu-
ton for the murder of Marcum and
others will stop with this jury. AL
though court has been in session some
weeks at great expense to the county
and also to the commonwealth on ac-
count of the troops, it is believed that
State Inspector Hines will make such
a report to the Governor as will secure
other trials under different conditions.
1t is not likely that the county will
soon find such another witness as B. ].
Even, who has removed to Lexington,
or another such prosecutor as Com
monwealth's Attorney Byrd, who ex-
poets to locate at Winchester, KY.
There are some who even expect Sc
rious trouble when the troops shall be
withdrawn. Business was practically
suspended to-day as yesterday, with
crowds about the town everywhere and
considerable earousing, although the
provost marshal with troops doing po-
lice duty, is attempting to keep the
blind tigers" closed. The reign of
terror still continues with all sorts
of apprehension as to the future and
no hope of any convictions under the
present official conditions.
Horufs Eacffon IuhfIanf
The members of the Hargis faction
were almost juhilant tonight over the
unofficial reports from the jury room.
It was claimed confidently that ten of
the jurors were firmly for acquittal,
and that the other two would be in
duced to join them tomorrow in a YER
dict of acquittal. 1t is mentioned that
all the men brought in for the panel
from which the jurors were selected,
were brought in by deputies or elisors
who are connected with the dominant
faction, and that they can be depended
upon for the result that is now anticl-
pated.
After the jury reported no agree
ment and was instructed by Judge
Redwine to continue its deliberations,
he stated that he had never expected
a verdict on the first night, and that
he will hold the jury in it's delibera-'
tons at least until Saturday, unless a
verdict shall be rendered before that
time.
While verdict is not generally ex-
pected the course of the jury in oc-
cupyng so much time may not be
taken as a positive intention of no
agreement. In the mountain countries
in important cases it is a custom Of
iuries to deliberate at length probably
to lend weight to their verdict. It rs
evident that Judge Redwine expects d
verdict tomorrow.
The jury spent the night at the Ar
lington Hotel, under a heavy guard. A
heavy guard was also placed tonight
around the home of Commemorative
Attorney Byrd.
Denounced by Byrd.
In making his concluding argument,
Mr. Byrd asked the jury to be willing,
if necessary to make the same sacri-
fees that Capt. Even had made for
justice Raising his hand aloft and
shaking it threateningly toward two
prominent men who sat in court, he
said:
II want to give warning to you and
all of your followers that your blood
thirsty duels must stop in Breathitt
county. I leave this county and it's
people. God knows they have suffered
enough; God knows the day has got
to come when the arch assassins, the
men who are the controlling powers
behind the Jetts and Whites. will be
exposed to the world and either sent
to prison or to the moose"
The case went TO the jury at II 80
a. m.