The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-23
NAN PATTERSON JURY
 STILL. CELEBRATING
HAD FAILED TO REACH VERDICT
 AT I1:26 LAST NIGHT.
Jury Locked Up for Night at That Tim,

Jury Locked Up for Night at That Time
 Young Actress Nearly ColIapses
 When She Hears the News-Bids Her
 Father Fearful Farewell and is
 Taken Back to the TOmbs--Jury Said
 to be Nine for AcauittaI.
 New York, Dec. 22.-The jury ils the Nan Patterson case was locked up al 11:26 tonight. not having reached a verdict At Il o'clock the announce ment came from the jury room that no decision had been arrived at, and im- 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 dispelled, however. when few minutes before 11:SO Captain Lynch, of the court squad, said that it 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 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 a few small tables and chairs, and the jurors will have no opportunity to sleep unless they can nap in the small wood en chairs.
 As soon as the jury was locked up for the night Miss Patterson bade her fath- CT a fearful farewell and was escorted 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 nervous wreck. The great strength she formerly evidenced has failed. and she repeatedly exclaim- ed: "Oh, how can those men doubt my word ?'
 There will be no opportunity of hear- ing from the jury again until 10:30 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 the 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. Murmufs of disappointment were heard from the crowd, which seemed convinc- ed that the jury would never reach a decision.
 The latest rumor from the jury room was that three men were holding out against nine who desire to acquit the defendant. It was reported that the three jurors were at odds as to the seriousness of the crime. One juror is said to be holding out for conviction of murder in the second degree and the two others are reported to favor man. slaughter in the second degree.
 One ruaor was so definite that it named the juror who had asked if 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.
 Disappointed crowds ill the street heard of the locking up of the jury for the night and joined in the vail of the persons who had been privileged to stand in the court building during the, deliberations of the jurors. A few Wo- men who were in the crowd which stood ip White street and watched the win- dows of the jury room until the an- nouncement came that the twelve men must spend the night in deiiberation. That jury will never agree, was the verdict of scores of men who follow ed the jury from the court building to a neighboring cafe at 7:50 o'clock for dinner. As they filed back into the jury room after dinner there was silence throughout the great building.
 As the hours dragged on and no re- port came from the jury room, the crowd in the building and in the street became impatient, At one time a small company of men in the corridors broke into song. Miss Patterson heard this sign of merriment and her nerves are said to have rebelled at the indications that any one could be gay when a ques- tion of such moment was under consid-3 eration.