The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-04
Eight Said TO Have Voted to
Convict Nan Patterson,
NO THIRD TRIAL FOR HER
II This One Falls TO Settle Il, She
viii Soon Go Free.

Close the Street Crossed by the Bridge
OF siGhs-HOOdlums Cry 10 the Jurors
in the street. "Aequit Her"-LAst Days
Proceedings in Court and Recorders
Charge 49, Prisoner watts In Cell.
The Nan Patterson jury had failed to
agree up to 80 O'Clock this morning and
It was Understood that the Recorder would
shortly direct that they be locked up for
the night.
He had returned TO the Court House after
being away most Of the evening and was
in his chambers, waiting for the chance
| OF message from the jury.
The jurors had not bean heard from
since early in the evening, when they sent
for the pistol with which Young was killed
the coat he wore, the skeleton and other
exhibits in the case.
At 1870 o'clock, when they had discussed
the case for an hour and a half after their
dinner, It was understood that the vote
had been eight to four for conviction on a
ballot strictly to decide on conviction OF
| acauittal 1t was not definitely known
| for what degree Of homicide the eight stood,
! but there were stories about the Criminal
| Courts Building that three votes were for
murder In the first degree, two for murder
| in the second degree and three for man
slaughter.
Information pmporting 10 come from
the jury room had 1t that some Of the jurors
who had been for acqmttal were wavering
and that at least one had gone over 20
conviction after P. NJ.
PRISONER SAYS SHE CAN'T UNDERSTAND II.
Nan Patterson and her sister, Mrs. Morgan
Smith, spent the evening In the same cell
| In the Tombs. They heard such rumora
as came from the vicinity Of the jury.
Early in the evening lawyer Simpson
OF the Arm Of Levy & Unger visited the
women. He told them that the jury had
not agreed,
Il can't understand It = said Nan Patter-
son. L thought they would have agreed
long before this and that would be free.
Hush, Man. said her sister. Some
times no news Is good news
At midnight about /, 900 people were hang
ing about the court house, buttonhoing
every one who came out and asking TOR the
| latest rumors.
4 ne July 81 llC lllbN u IA "tlD ANNNNN ~
for the night and in the morning we're dis
charged, still unable 70 agree. II this
! fury cannot agree there will be no third
trial. and the prisoner will shortly be re-
leased on her own recognizance.
SYMPTOMS OF a decided difference Of
/ opinion ia tho jury room had appeared
in the early evening, when the jury, which
had been out since / O'Clock In the after
| IA piafnl mud the
other exhibit.
The last day Of the trial was marked BY
the persistence with which a crowd, some
times Of extraordinary size, hung around
the Criminal Courts Building trying to get
sight Of the prisoner and pursued the jury
out to lunch and TO dinner and back again
TO the court house. At one time the police
had to close Franklin street, so great was
the mob that was watching the Bridge Of
Signs
JURY, GOING OUT, MEETS PRISONER.
There had been many vacant seats IN
the court room when at II O'Clock the Re
corder began his two-hour charge. He
had ordered that all persons who had no
| business there be kept out The pOliOs
formed lines far away from the court
room door, aud no one got through.
Nan 1dlueIbont beellulklg CulppoE ana
confident of freedom, swung across the
Bridge Of Signs, escorted by a deputy
sheriff. As she entered the court room
il was noticed that she had put on no rouge.
Long before the Recorder finished his
charge her face bad turned a greenish
hue. With the Recorders last words
Il submit the case 10 you, gentlemen the
fury filed out at o'clock, only 10 meet the
I ~, a. A,v
10 await their verdict. There was delay
Of a second or two 10 lot the chorus girl
pass them and then the jury went In 10
deliberate. L feel that / will be ao-
Quilted she said, as she went TO her osll.
the Recorders charge was kind and
favorable
PURSUED By A CROWD GOING TO LUNCH.
The jury went TO lunch at 2So O'Clock.
| Outside, in Franklin street they were sur
rounded by a crowd that had been waiting
all the morning 10 get a glimpse Of tho
chorus girl as she crossed the Bridge Of
Sighs. The crowd fought 10 get a look
at the jurors and their trip 10 Hams res
taurant was a stormy one.
whats up7' asked one man who APP
parently bad had something else on his
mind than the Nan Patterson trial.
"They just raided poolroom and caught
twelve men, was the answer Of one man
In the crowd.
When the jurors returned TO the Criminal
Courts Building a squad Of police guarded
them fore and aft and mounted police
man rode along in the street, But even
with the two score policemen the jurors
had trouble with the crowd
SEND FoR PISTOL, COAT AND SKELETON.
At 5:I6 O'Clock the jury sent a message 10
the Recorder asking for the coat and waist
coat worn by Young and the pistol with
which he was killed, all exhibits in the case.
The coat and waistooat show the holes.
high on the left shoulder made by the
bullet.
Recorder COT sent the exhibits 10 the
Jury room without calling the jury into.
Insist uPoh havinG BurnsttS vahinA.-Adf.