The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-23
PATTERSON
 JURY HUNG No Agreement Can Be
 Reached. JURORS GO TO SLEEP Nerve of Defendant Seems at
 Last Broken. Confident of Acquittal an Utter Col- lapse Was Imminent When An- nouncement Was Made of
 Inability to Agree.

New York, Dec. 22.-The jury in the Nan Patterson case was locked up at 11:26 tonight, not having reached . verdict. At II o'clock the announGe- ment came from the jury room that nc decision has been arrived at and i'm. mediately following came a statement that Judge Davis would give the jury another half hour before locking them up.
 The hope of a verdict was djspelled, however, when a few minutes before 11:30 o'clock Captain Lynch of the court squad said that "It is all orr and the jury would be locked up for the night.
 Miss Patterseu heard the news in the pen" and 1t was so unexpected to her that she came near to collapse. . It was understood that the jury would continue consideration of the case in the small jury room containing only few tables and chairs and the jurors will have no opportunity to sleep unless they can nay in the small chairs.
 AS soon as the jury was locked up for the night Miss Patterson bade her father a fearful farewell and was es- cortsd from the pen" in the court building to her cell in the sToombs. The girl who showed such courage through the long trial is almost a nervous wreck. The great strength she formerly evinced has failed and she repeatedly exclaimed "Oh, how can those men doubt my word?"
 There will be no opportunity of hearing from the jury again until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, the hour fixed by the court for report from the twelve men who are to decide the fate of the chorus girl.
 Immediately after the announce ment that the jury was locked up for the night officers cleared the corridors of the court building of scores of newspaper men who had anxiously awaited news from the jury room. Murmurs of disappointment were heard from the crowd which seemed con- vinced that the jury would never reach a decision
 was that three men were holding out against nine who desired to acquit the defendant. It was reported that the three jurors were at odds as to the se- riousness of the crime. One juror Is said to be holding out for conviction of murder in the second degree and two others are reported to favor man. slaughter in the second degree.
 One rumor was so definite that It named a juror who had asked if he might have the revolver as the man who is holding out for the conviction of Miss Patterson of murder in the second degree.
 Crowd was Disappointed.
 Disappointed crowds in the street heard of the locking up of the jury for the night and joined in the vail of the persons who had been privi- legged to stand in the court building during the deliberations of the jurors. A few women were in the crowd which stood in White Street and watched the windows of the jury room until the announcement came that the twelve men must spend the night in deliberation.
 > That jury will never agree" was the verdict of scores of men who followed the jury from the court building to neighboring cafe at 7;30 o'clock for dinner. As they filed back into the jury room after dinner there was si- lence throughout the great building and gloom seemed to fall over the waiting crowd.
 As the hours dragged on and no re- port came from the jury room, the crowd in the building and in the streets became impatient.
 At one time a small company or men in the corridors broke into song. Miss
  and her nerves are said to have re- belled at the indication that any one could be gay when a question of such moment was under consideration.
 Nan Patterson, former show girl. sjent an anxious evening In the Criminal Courts building await ing the result of the delibera- tions of the twelve men who shortly after noon today were sent to a jury
 hn branded as the woman who fired the shot that killed Caesar Young, or lb- erated to join her family.
 She had expected a speedy verdict, and had even packed her belongings and left them in the cell which has been her home for several months. but evening came and the jury went to dinner and returned to it's delibera- tions with no sign of what the verdict would be.
 The suspense of the early days of the trial when Prosecutor Rand put witness after witness on the stand to complete a chain of circumstantiaI evil dence against her, returned, although outwardiy Miss Patterson seemed to maintain the same quiet demeanor that has characterized her from the begin ming.
 As the afternoon passed into the evening VdrlOuS "SIS cad about the Criminal Courts building as to the doings in the jury room.
 The jury stands ten to two for ac- quittal," was one of these reports.
 one man is holding out" was an other.
 Some had the hardihood to name the juror upon whose refusal to acquit hangs so much for the former actress.
 The fact that one of the jurors, after the charge of Judge Davis today. asked that he might take the revolver with which Young was killed, to the jury room, gave rise to stories that the iurymen were spending much time in experiments. But all these rumors were but idle talk, apparently, for not an authentic hint reached the crowds congregated in and about the Criminal Courts building as to what was actu- ally taking place.
 Crowd Was Excited.
 The great interest which the trial of Nan Patterson has attracted was never evidenced in a more pronounced way than this afternoon and evening.