Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-04

VI hhS -shA dltsisoll IT sdl pf- fore Recorder Golf on the charge Of having murdered Frank T. Young, the l well known turfman and bookmaker. in cab last June.
 When the foreman had finally as- | sured the court that there was no pos slbility of reaching an agreement, the prisoner was ill a dead faint. At 2:2S o'clock the recorder declared the jury | discharged and ordered Miss Patterson returned to the Tombs prison. She was carried out in a chair by several attendants and two doctors had hard time restoring consciousness. When ! told the result she smiled faintly. In the streets below thousands of persons. | held back by mounted police, cheered the news. but were somewhat disap- pointed They evidently favored the young woman and had expected her acquittal.
 Various rumors gained currency as | to how the jury stood. Information re- ceiyed by the Associated Press is that the poll was to , in favor of acquit- tal
 It is quite certain that the former show girl will be given her liberty on nominal bail and that the indictment will be auashed. She has faced trial | three times: twice the jury disagreed and once there was a mis-trial owing | to the collapse of juror.
 In the court annals of this city noth- ing has yet approachef the tensity of I the climax i'll the Patterson case When Recorder Golf was summoned to | a nfo filled with spectators. two of whom were women. Only those possessing permits were allowed to enter. but in the streets surrounding the Tombs and the court house were thousands await ing the outcome. With their eyes riv- eted on the bridge leading from the prison they watched for a possible glimpse of the prisoner, who. they hoped, might pause at a window mo- mentarily should she be called to court. Mounted police forming the traffic squad kept the people in order and maintained passageways for the street cars.
 When the recorder reached his desk and ordered the prisoner brought from her cell the nervous tension in the
 
 jury had filed into the court room. the recorder was on the bench. Assistant District Attorney Rand was restlessly pacing back and forth, and Attorney Levy for the defense eyed the jurymen with the keenness of hope of despair, but the central figure of the tragedy was nowhere to be seen. For mo- ment the recorder did not notice her n0n-arrival and was about to call on the foreman for the verdict. Informed that the prisoner was ill. Mir Golf de- clared the court could not proceed: that she must be present The minutes dragged slowly along Ten of them passed and then Miss Patterson ap- peared. leaning heavily on the arm of deputy sheriff. She showed more strength than even her lawyers had hoped. In crossing the bridge of sighs" she had heard the shouts of the watchers below and seemingly every voice was attuned in her favor. Upon reaching the dock she grasped the rail- ing for support. and gazed fixedly at the jurymen. When they announced their failure to agree and were sent back for further consultation. she al- most collapsed and practically had to be carried from the room.
 At 2:l5 o'clock the same scenes were enacted.
 Miss Patterson was then in a state bordering on coSapse. She trembled like leaf when the jury filed in the second time and when the foreman finally made q personal poll of the jury. announced that its members were fixed in their opinions and the formality of the discharge had been completed. she was in dead faint. AS the curtain fell. strong court attend ants lifted the chair in which the un- conscious woman sat and carried if away to the hospital ward of the prison.
 Physicians were hurriedly sum- moned. but she could not be revived by ordinary methods. The prisoners aged father clasped her fin his arms. chafed her cheeks and called her name repeatedly. but she did not utter 3 word. Finally. after nearly twenty minutes. she became semi-conscious and ten minutes later was able to speak.
 
 among the other prisoners. adding the unusual touch to one of the most re markable nights in the history of the Tombs. Outside the crowds melted slowly away. and an hour after the fury was discharged the neighborhood had resumed its normal quietness.
 In the eleven months passed beiiDd the prison walls Nan Patterson has had many disappointments. Insisting from the first that she was innocent of the crime with which she was charged. that she loved Caesar Young and would do him no harm. she waited all through last summer for the first chance ta face her accusers in open court. Then. after a trying period in which practically the whole case of tha prosecrfion had been shown. the illness of a juror set at naught all that had been done Another tiresome wait. more tryinr weeks in the courtroom. and the girl was brought face to face with the bitter truth that she had been unable Co convince twelve men of her innocence. six it was said. had be Iieved her story. but the other six stood with her sccusers. That was inst before Christmas. the day she had ho1<-i to pass with her invalid mother in Washington Then followed more months of waiting and hopes which were to be dashed by another disap- pointment-
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