The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-27

New York, December 22.-The
jury in the Nan Patterson case
was locked up at 1925 tonight, not
having reached a verdict. At II o'clock
the announcement came from the jury
room that no decision had been arrived
at and Immediately following came a
statement that Judge Davis would give
the jury another half hour before lock-
ing them I'D.
The hope of a verdict was dispelled,
however. when a few minutes before
1880 Captain Lynch. of the court squad.
said that lit was all off,, and the jury
would be locked up for the night.
Miss Patterson heard the news in the
pen" and it was SO unexpected 10 her
that she came near to collapse.
1t We understood that the jury would
continue consideration of the case in
the small jury room containing only a
few tables and chairs and the jurors
will have no opportunity to sleep unless
they car nap in the small chairs.
Az soon as the jury was locked up
for the night Miss Patterson bade her
father a fearful farewell and was es-
corted from the pen in the court
building to her cell in the tombs. The
girl who showed such courage through
the long trial is almost a nervous wreck.
Tho ~-aof o4-n--4L - F0-r,1~I.y vino
ed has failed and she repeatedly ex-
claimed "Oh. how can those men doubt
my word?"
There will be no opportunity of hear
ing from the jury again until 1880 to-
morrow morning the hour fixed by the
court for a report from the twelve men
who are TO decide the Fate of the chorus
girl.
Immediately after the announcement
that the jury was locked up for the
night. officers cleared the corridors OF
the court building of scores of news
paper men and attorneys who had anx-
iously awaited news from the jury.
Murmurs of disappointment were heard
from the crowd, which seemed %conVinc-
ed that the fury would never reach a
decision.
The latest rumor from the jury room
was hat three men were holding out
against nine who desired to acQuit the
defendant. 1t was reported that the
three jurors were at odds as to the seri-
BUSINESS OF the crime. One juror is aid
10 be holding 1ut for conviction for
murder in the second degree and two
others are reported to favor man
slaughter in the second degree.
One rumor was 50 definite that II
named a juror who had asked il he
might fire the revolver as the man who
is holding out for the conviction of Miss
Patterson of murder in the second de-
gree.
Nan Patterson. former show girl.
spent an anxious evening in the crim-
inal courts building awaiting the re-
suit of the deliberations OF the twelve
men who shortly after noon today were
sent to a jury doom to decide whether
she should be branded as the woman
who fired the shot that killed Caesar
Young or liberated to join her family.
She hal expected Il speedy YER
dict and had ever packed her be-
Iongings and left them in a cell which
has been her home for several months.
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to dinner. and returned to its deliber-
atoms with no sigE of what the YER
diet were to be.
The per of the early days of
the trial. when Prosecutor Rand put
witness after witness on the stand to
complete a chain of circumstantial
evidence against her. returned. al
though outwardly Miss Patterson
seemed to maintain the same quiet
demcanor tina has characterized her
from the beginning
As the afternoon passed into even
ing various rumors were spread about
the criminal courts building as to the
doings in the jury room.
The Jury stands ten to two for ac-
QuittaI." was one of these reports.
.'One mar is holding out" was an
other.
Some had the hardihood TO name
the juror upon whose refusal to &C
quit hangs so much for the former
actress.
The fact that one of the jurors after
the charge of Judge Davis today. had
asked that he might take n revolt
yer with which Young was killed to
the Jury room. gave rise tn g
that the jurymen were spending much
tune in experiments But all these
rulsors were but idle talk apparently,