The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-03
JURY GOES OUT.
Nan Patterson's Case Given
Over to 10 Men.
They Left the Court Room at
1:2O 2. nj.
CHARGE OF THE COURT
The Verdict Need Not Be MUIR
der or Acquittal.
Crowds Fill the Streets Await
ing the Verdict.
OF THE COURT

New York, May s.-The Patterson
case went to the jury at 1920 p. m.
When the jury left the court room
they did not get a luncheon but went
directly to the jury room to begin de-
hberations.
Remarkable scenes were witnessed
around the court room, where the trial
of Nan Patterson is in progress today.
Early in the day crowds began to
gather and hours before the time for
the opening of the court the corridors
were filled with men and women, hop
ing to break through the Gordon of
guards around the court room doors
on the first rush. Even in the streets
around the building scores of persons
stood waiting. On the Tombs prison
side the street spanned by the bridge
of signs was jammed with people
wanting to catch one fieeting glance
of the prisoner as she passed the lit
tie, barred, half-open window which
overlooks the streets. AS the hour for
the opening of court approached the
regular force of uniformed guards
about the building was doubled, every
stairway was guarded and an officer
stood outside every elevator landing.
The Patterson trial is not the only
case being heard on the third floor of
the big building, however, and hun
dreds of persons toking advantage of
this gained temporary admission to
the upper floors. Time after time the
corridors were cleared and the crowds
streamed out into the streets only to
return to make other attempts, most
of them fruitless, to gain admission to
the room. Practically every seat in
the body of the court room had been
spoken for far in advance and it SEEM
ed as if every favored one used the
privilege accorded as there was hard
~ an inch of room to spare when the
prisoner came in and took her place
beside her counsel.
Charge to the Jury.
In beginning his charge to the jury
Recorder Golf said:
This case has nothing extraordi-
nary in it. So far as the testimony
goes, two persons most spoken of dur
ing the entire proceedings, the de-
ceased. a man by the name of Young,
a race track man, had this defendant
to live with him as his mistress. The
mans death, because of the person
atty of this man Young, had nothing
in it to excite your passions or your
| prejudices. He was a mere gambler,
a race track man. Therefore, you
should be able to consider the facts
calmly witho prejudice and passion .
Back to the Tombs.
Following the retiring of the jury the
prisoner was taken back to her cell in
the Tombs. The girl met her father
and embraced him.
AS time went by and the word came
that the jury had gone out, the crowd
around the criminal court building in
creased. A battalion of mounted police
was called out and succeeded in making
passage way through Center street
for surface cars and other vehicles, but
at Elm street it was different. The traf-
fie was at a standstill the street being
filed from curb to curb with persons
who had been unsuccessful in getting
into the court building a crowd
stretched for blocks along Broadway to
reach a point where they could hear the
news.
The jury went to lunch at 2:90.
When Warden Flynn of the Tombs
went to Miss Patterson's cell to tell her
that the jury had gone to luncheon he
told her that the first ballot taken by
them had been nine to three in her IA
VoT.