The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-03
PARKS JURYMEN EAK OUT.
,r,rRI> no, Br, TO or THEN
SAY, or HIfr!Lr.
on. Juror Wa. VAS. and Couldn't Be
nc,e for while =, Brother Mss""
Gould DO such inss- Other Mason.
Oh the .Jur, III F View OF the STAY


Have for . while Uat Brother Mason
Gould do such pin9s-osher Mss"ns
o., IN. .,ur,-Ttxr view Of the stay.
~ ,bere are any jnadder men in town
.h., at least ten me( OF the twelve jurymen
~ tho parks cas-. I would be hard to find
,A.n, These menSyent into the case with
49,, any dednitely(ormed opinion Of Parks,
a. parkss counsel who were nothing II not
'nsncions were perfectly satisfied. The
acton ~ .Justioj Sewell in granting GER
,;sca,s Of reas<hable doubt to Parks, ADJ
thereby le,,inshim out Of Sing Sing Prison
on SO ooo baly ia taken by the jury as a
direct refec,n IN on its good sense and in
tegritv
There haS been meetings between sew
oral If the hrymen since Parks got out, at
which the natter has been discussed. Yes
,erdav SrN reporter met two OF them,
He had hSpn told by an obliging friend that
two Of fhe Parks jury are down in my
Mace aid what they are saying would
make mighty interesting reading Better
come orer.
The reporter found the two jurymen
For obvious reasons they didn't want their
names printed, but they were full OF wrath.
There was no question about that. They
had Joined each other to go on hunt to
fndout il II WAS true that one OF the Eustace
brothers OF Parks's counsel had referred
10 them before Justice Sewell as 'jurymen
not Intelligent enough to give proper con-
sideration to the trial. They hadn't been
able TO verify this, but they were none the
less wrathf,I
Perhaps" said one of them, "Eustace
didn't say that II it had been Robinson
who was accused Of saying that about us,
wouldn't have been surprised. One OF
nv friends was telling me this afternoon
that he knew Robinson when Robinson
and Justice Sewell were up STATE and that
in those days Robinson was great man
10 make sweeping statements.
Now, before the Parks trial began
there was every chance for Parks In the
world By the time the case was ready
for the Jury didn't want to leave the room.
| didn't want to get out ~ my chair. l
turned to the man next ME in the box and
said
Think we'll have to argue this rnuch|
Not for me- said he, I'm ready now"
There was a murnur right up and down
the jury box the same way. When we
got into the jury room one fellow the
Juryman named the man he referred toI
shouts out What's the use OF ballot ?
There's only one decision on this CASE
But we went ahead with the ballot. 1t
stood ten for Guilty one Undecided and
one Not Guilty
we got hold ofthe oGe who was undecided t a n
tks crime with which Parks was charged
was committed 10 New York or New Jer-
He had his doubts about the juris diction
Of the court Ten Of us reasoned with him
for . minute and cleared him Of his de-
sire to supersede the judicial functions
Of the Court and he voted Guilty
"Then we got after the other fellow
manning himl. We found that he hadn't
heard more than half the Recorders charge.
As a matter OF fact, he had been
asleep one-third of the time during the
trial, and we all knew it. We told him so
and told him that the Recorder had ruled
on the points he was standing out on
II didn't hear him, says he.
You were alseep,' we said to him
''NIebbe 40, says he, but, nevertheless
fidn't hear Judge Golf say that"
He finally took the word of the eleven
O.. ~ But he said he wanted 70 see the
evidence He said we'd better send out
Tor the evidence Hen one OF US got W
and said
No, by heaven, Inst case WAS TOO
clear Tor US 10 insult our own ifiteilRehce
ana the Court by ashihE 10 look az the
evidence" give ho'lce tiiat an PIepareo
70 sit here Tor mont II 10 settle tiis cast
a. II stands, There Ism gong 10 De any
hung jury business here. ana we aTeh
going to admit that we were all asleep
even II one OF lis was ,....,-,,,
men there came up li,c business apo",
the MaSons. Here, you .rii anou' l''a A.
Nad the first Jurymah' turning 10 'he
Well began the second WIalhi VI one
YOU know that raTks haa masonic en-
brm very prominently disllayeo on mr.
coat I'm Mason, ana hoticSu ~ II
turned out that every Mason on the JURY
and there were ten OF w III ailIho'hed II
he way we happehed 10 ma "u' 10"
many Of US were Masohs was inns
Tins one man who hung OUT Tor MOI
guilty SAD, after awhlie: nave PR
ucnIar reason; gentlemen, ior 9eiiea It
that this man Parks Is truthful and worthy
OF belief.
=. That started seVera! OF We 70 'hlhKlhg
h"n one man asks nus Fellow are you =
mason Hr says that d" II ana a. ihuci
D. admits that TINS u ms Rr0uhu ior f
herlhg mat Parks couidh teli lo ulurl
cath Inc fellow VINO NAG asken the
question rises rlght up III MS clia'' 'hei
ana SAYS
Now here I'm Mason ana J,is' u
GOOD u one AS you are. But II "" nag q
man m our lodge shown 70 be VIVA, thls