Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-23

of certain knowledge that news of the result of the jury's deliberations would not be forthcoming until after 10 o'clock to-day, scores of persons re mained all night around the. criminal court building hoping to be the first to hear the verdict in the case of Nan Patterson. Driven from tho building just before midnight when the jury was locked up for the night by order Of Justice Davis, the curious crowd gathered in little knots in sheltered places in the vicinity to wait and spec ulate and insure for themselves an ad- sYanfageous position in the line when the d0ers were again opened to-day. Even when the dim light which came through the windows of the jury room indicated that the jurors had given up their arguments for the night and were attempting to sleep, rumofs from IF, sideJ the building found their way to the patient walters The source ot these rlinaors no one knew and little faith was placed in their truthTulness, In the early light mysterious informa' ton had it that the jury stood firm on the basis of nine for aequittal, one for conviction of murder in, the second de gree and two unable to agree upon the ]. degree of mapslaughter of Whic1 . believed the prisoner guilty Before daylight, however there had been decided change in the sentiment oL the jury according to report. At that time q story which gained cireulatlop had eleven jurors favoring acquittal with one holding out for conviction ot murder in the first degree. Or course there was nothing to substantiate these !. rgazHors, but every bit of gossip was !. seized upon by those who had waited so lopgA
 The first sign of life in the big court building came just before day Dreslk when bright light dfckered up in- the window of the Jury room scarcely more than d dozen feet away from the court house end of the Bridge of Sighs. Al little later the officers who had been on guard in the building all night came ont one by one for breakfast, and little after 2 o'clock the jurors, guard- cd by court officers, marched out to; nearby restaurant for their morning neal As they came through the Franklin street exit the Jurors met crowd Of not less than POO persons, lnl 4udfnE the SCI lgea pp0inted guard who mud f6malnRd on duty .M aAl M M tiht N N At the crowd had expected to learn any thiag rom the faces of the jurors they d were disapnoInted, for there was noth- ! iae -iff their. expression save weartness, Tt xv.l s learned that the room in which the long night was spent was entirely without furniture with the exception Of a table and a dozen small wooden chairs. Whatever rest the jurors got, therefore. was obtained under far from ideal eondit itions. They suffered some what from cold during the night, the 51 fEa froused in the early. morning hours with !. q request for more heat.
 Afterstlae hardest day of her life, a. day which opened with the bTightea hope and ended. in darkest, despair, Nan Patterson retired to her cot in the Tombs, haif an hour after midnight It had been reported from the little sspen over the Jury room where she spent the long hours of waiting yester- day and last evening that sne was on the verge of nervous collapse and that even her aged father, who hHs been constantly at her side, was unable to calm her. According to the matron s0f t9a Tonlbs. howeyef, ,Tthe girl had hard- IF touched her cot in the cell before she was asleep. Her sleep was trou- f1fgd and she awoke many times during the night, but on the whole. got q much better nights rest than might have been expected under the circumn stances. 'I don'ts see how she does said the rnatron.
 She has the most wonderful nerve or any woman eEeE knew
 Nan PattersonN collapsed in the Tonbs to-day s completely that eff f3rts-~of the nzdtron, the warden and her father .to ftelp her were of no avail. and pr Levin, the physician at the prison. had to be called. She was revived considerably, but 1t was reared that she would collapse again when she went to the court room.
 This mornFag Mss Patterson asked for news from the jury. She became hysterical while waiting. for an an aver and tue, Tombs warden went to ace her. He assured her that there was no news, and that she could not possibly hear anything until it was announced fn the court room before her. Instead of reassuripg her, this news made her worse and she had a severe attack of mysteries.
 How can ever face those dread fiil twelve men againg' the warden aald she repeatedly cried. the fear Of going back to the court overshadow- ing everything else.
 pr Levin, the Tembs physician, was sent for in a hurry and prescribed for her. About this time her. father ar rived at the lTombs. Owing 10 her state of collapse he was allowed to go ID to see her and with his presence and the efforts of the phy NeianA she irnptoYed considerably in a short sTne. As soon as she was somewhat com posed she was led across the Bridge of Sighs to the criminal court build ing. She was taken to the pen in the court building to wait until a yer dict haS beei9 reached or some coneiu- sion had been arrived at.
 There was another giving way of overstra ined nerves to-day when Wil- liam Ryan, "a policeman on. guard at the entrance to the jury room. faint ed. He was sent to his station house in a patrol wagon. He had been doing extra duty aHd this. with the excite nlent Of the trial was too much for him.
 When the jury came in at f2:50, Miss Pstferson showed much nervous
 q. ts.