The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-05-06
JURY DISAGREES
THIRD TRIAL 10 E yAN PAT
TERsoN THE ACTRESS, 4
PROVED Al FAILURE.


Morning.
Dallas, Texas, April 29.-Re-
ports have reached hsre of the cy-
clone that has swept the town of
Larned, Tex, this morning. AL
string of box cars was blown off the
international & Great Northern
tracks.
A long distance telephone mes
ga % from Cotulla says the bodies of
ten dead Mexicans have been recov-
cred. 1t is reported that fourteen
persons have been killed outside
Laredo.
Fifty railroad coaches belonging
to the International & Great North.
ern and Mexican Central railroad |
were blown away.
Superintendent Gates, of the
Southwestern Telegraph company,
with headquarters in Dallas, re-
ceived a dispatch from San Anto-
MO that the repair crew at Cotulla
had learned from a conductor of a
train northbound that the bridge
across the Rio Grande had been
wrecked by the storm. The con-
ductor stated that his train had
| just escaped the storm. There are
two bridges at Laredo across the
river and it is not known which
one was destroyed. They are built
Eof steel and are costly structures.
| Linemen making repairs to the
long.distance telephone have re-
ported within so miles north Of La
lredo. They report tonight terri
BILE state of devastation.
i New York. May <s.Nan pattss-
sons case went to the jury at I:o2.
| When Warden Flynn, of the Tombs
| went to Miss Patterson's S cell to tell
her that the jury had gone to lunch
con, he told her that the first ballot
taken by them had been nine to
three in her favor.
Nan Patterson left her cell in the
Tombs for the court of general ses-
sions today to witness the last
scenes of her trial on a charge of
killing Caesar Young. As Assist
ant District Attorney Rand had
finished his argument yesterday
and the defense had already spoken
, it's final word, Recorder Golf began
his charge to the jury, as follows:
"This case has nothing extraor.
:, dinary in it. So far as the testimo-
: iny goes, two persons most spoken
! of during the entire proceedings
the deceased, a man by the name
! Young, racetrack man, had this
. defendant to live with him as his
. mistress. The mans death, be-
; cause of the personality Of this
, , man Young, had nothing in it tt
a excite your passions or your preju
: dices. He was a mere gambler, {
: racetrack man. Therefor e yor
!. should be able to consider the fact
calmly without prejudice and pas
t sion.
!. .There Is no artificial atmospher,
K for you to be excited or distracted
: by. You must decide the eircum
J stances without any thought Of tn
n atmosphere. calmly and with 1
j. quiet mind.
"Of course, gentlemen, you mus
not think that, because of the hum
BILE position of this woman, yo'
should not give her the same con
). sideration as if sheoccupied a NOR
:, exalted position in society. What
. ever her position, she is entitled t
q the same legal rights as the mos
= prominent and most conspicuous
i If there:be reasonable doubt in thi
case on the evidence, this dout
g must be thrown into the balance fo
q the defendant. A danger lies i
Z the remarks of counsel which Nigh
e take your mind off the direct issue
Ct You must avoid this danger.
9. 81 understand that there is n
claim On the part of the defens
+. that if the defendant committe
10 this homicide it was either justifis
:. tble or excusable. I also under
stand that the defense claims ths
~ the crime was murder In the fir:
= degree or nothing. But you are nj
= bound to accept the arguments I
I" counsel as to the nature of th
crime. You are the judges Of tt
er fact, if there was murder, and
re- what degree. The crucial questio
gsIis, Did the man kill himself or di
4 this defendant fire the fatal shot