Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-12-24
MISTRIAL DECLARED
IN PATTERSON CASE
While Waiting For Verdict FAN
Prisoner Collapse.
SHE FAlNTs AT JuRY's VERDICT
After Being Out Nearly "a Hours, the
Jury Gould not Agree, and They
Were Discharged by Judge Davis.
:. Jury Stood for and Against.

Jury Gould not Agree, and They
Were Discharged by Judge Davis.
> Jury Stood for and Against.
New York, Dec. 23.-Nan Patterson
collapsed in the Tombs today so com.
pleteiy that efforts of the matron, the
warden and her father to help her were
of no avail and DIR. Levin, the physi
| clan at the prison, had to be called
She was revived considerably, but
it was feared that she would collapse
again when she went to the court
room.
This morning Miss Patterson asked
| for news from the jury. She became
| hysterical while waiting for an answer
| and the Tombs warden went to see
her. He assured her that there was
no news, and that she could not posi-
bly, hear anything until it was an.
| nounced in the court room before her.
Instead of assuring her, this news
made her worse. She had severe at
tack Of hysteria.
"How can l ever face those dreadful
twelve men again" the warden said
sne repeatedly cried. The fear oil
going back to the court overshadow.
ing everything else.
DR.. Levin, the Tombs physician, was
sent for in a hurry and prescribed for
her. About this time her father ar.
rived at the Tombs. Owing to her
state of collapse, he was allowed to
go up to see her.
With his presence and the efforts OF
the physician she improved considera.
bly, in a short time. AS soon as she
was somewhat composed she was led
across the bridge of sighs to the Grim.
inal court building. She was taken
to the "pen" in the court building to
await until a verdict had been reached
or until some conclusion should be ar.
rived at.
There was another giving way OF
overstrained nerves today when Will
liam Ryan, policeman on guard .at
the entrance to the jury room faint.
ed. He was sent to his station house
in patrol wagon. He had been do.
ing extra duty and this, with the ex.
element of the trial was too much for
him.
AT 1890, the hour which had been
set for the opening of court, word
came by telephone that Justice Davis
was delayed and he would not reach
the courthouse until 11:3O
Half hundred persons occupied
seats in the court room Among them
were only three women Promptly at
1870 John Randolph Patterson, the
prisoners father, came in and took
seat at the counsels table
A moment later the jurors, their
faces showing deep lines as a result
OF their all-night vigil, filed solemnly
in and took their places behind the
rail
Nan Patterson, gowned freely in
black and with a heavy black veil,
concealing her features, walked with
firm, strong step to the chair beside
her father AS she sat down she
placed one arm across her fathers
shoulders. With the other she raised
her veil and kissed the old man in a
very pretty, affectionate way. OF the
two, the father showed in far great.
er degree the strain under which they
had been for many hours, and for a
time the gorl turned comforter.
When Miss Patterson raised her veil
her face was flushed, and as she
waited for the final word of the Jury
the color came and went in rapid sue
cession. Every moment her eyes
were fixed intently upon the jurors,
but her gaze was not returned.
A deadly pallor spread over her face
when she bent towards her father.
This evidence Of weakness was ap-
parent for only a moment, however,
and from that time until the court off,
Ger touched her on the shoulder, she
sat bolt upright, her lips firmly COM
pressed and gazing straight into the
faces of the II men in the jury box.
The color of her face seemed to
deepen, If that was possible, and her
whole attitude showed that she was
undergoing keen suffering. When ths
jury reported their disagreement and
the justice discharged them, she lisE.
ened to her father and threw herself
on his shoulders, weeping bitterly.
Up to the last she had hoped to be
free in time to go home to Washington
TO spend Christmas with her mother,
and the disagreement was most poign'
ant disappointment to her.
Her old father tried to comfort her,
but she fell fainting in his arms.
The girl was revived from her faint
ing spell, but continued to sob hysteric.
ally. Justice Davis thanked the jury
and remanded Miss Patterson to the
Tombs. She was led out sobbing vio-
lentIy and in a state of severe nervous
collapse.
After the rest of the jurors left the
court room, the forman remained and
had consultation with Justice Davis.
| AS the foreman of the jury left the
| court room he said the vote through
out had been six to six. He said
six were for acquittal, but whether the
other six were for murder in the first
degree or not he would not say. The
prosecuting attorney would not say
what further course of the prosecution
] would be.
Nan Patterson collapsed again while
she was being taken across the bridge
Of sighs
It was said she was In serious con-
dition for the time being. She was
revived sufficiently to be taken to her
cell, where she again collapsed.
i The prison surgeon was called to
attend her and her father was sent