The Washington times., 1905-06-22
CRAWFORD JURY
STILL IN SESSION,
HOPELESS SPLIT
Court May Discharge
the Members This
Afternoon.
FORTY HOURS DEBATE
Justice Wright Presents Ger
tain Questions to Aid
Deliberations.
FORTY HOURS DEBATE
The Crawford jury is still out.

The Crawford jury lis still out.
There is no agreement in sight and
the members are hopelessly divided as
to the suilt or innocence of the man
who stands accused of eonspiring to de-
fraud the United States Government
Certain questions submitted to the
jury by Justice Wright With the hope
that the twelve men would be aided in
arriving at a decision are still in their
possession 1t is expected the jury will
be discharged this afternoon and a mis-
trial declared.
Jury Hopelessly Divided.
At 1920 this morning the jury, tired
and haggard-looking. filed into court in
response to a summons from Justice
Wright. Mr. worthington. counsel for
Crawford had been notified of the in
tention to summon the jury into the
presence of the court, and was present
with his client. The report that the jury
which had been endeavoring to deter
mine the guilt or innocence of Craw-
ford for more than forty hours was
comino into court spread rapidly, and
when 1t made its appearance the room
was crowded to its greatest accommo-
dation capacity
Crawford, whose fate was hanging in
the balance, entered tae courtroom
smiling 1t was apparently. however, a
forced smile, and soon faded from his
countenance when he took his seat In
front of the court, waiting to hear What
the jury had to say as to his guilt or
innocence. He was not, however, kept
long in suspense. for the foreman OF the
jury informed the court 1t was nope
lessly divided and there was no prooa-
bility of its arriving at an agreement.
Al.
In response to Justice wrights dues-
ton whether the jury had agreed TO
verdict. the foreman replied:
Your honor, the jury has not been
able to agree and l am afraid, your
honor, that it is a hopeless case. 1t IS
utterly impossible. We have been at IL
for forty hours. now, and 1t is utterly
impossible for this jury to agree
Justice Wright shall submit two Sc
ries of questions TO the jury They are
contained on separate sheets, one marx
ed mage / and the other naked page
3 and l shall ask the jury TO answer
one or the other of these series o.
questions from the evidence. You neec
not answer both. but one.
..The first question is, In the mrs
series: Did Crawford agree. with Lor
enz and Machen, Oh, either of them, tha
a portion of the proceeds received o!
Lorenz should be paid TO Machen
Then there is a blank space for th'
answer to be written in
Second. If yes. then did the parties
to the agreement intend To influence
either the award OF the coatract Ioi
satehels or the execution after 1t was
awarded by the payment o. money u
Machen Then there is blank for ths
answer. The other series is this:
AS to Machen's Guilt.
"E;rst did Crawford agree with
Machen and Lorenz, or either of them
that Machen should use his official po
sition for the purpose of Influencing
either the award of the satchei contrac
to the Postal Lock and Device Comptii.
or the execution of such d contrac
after IL was awarded. there is blanl
space here for the answer for thai
after you find 1t.
..If yes, then did the parties to tn,
agreement agree that portion of the
proceeds received by Lorenz shoult
be paid to Machen. There Is a bianl
answer to that.
Now, understand. gentlemen. what
mean by this There are two question
on this sheet. and there are two ques
evidence. answer, If you can. one 0
the other of the questions on one o
these sheets: not on both of them.
Mr.. Worthington-One moment VII
your honor ask this jury II they ar
agreed upon any one of the three count
which have been submitted to them?
Justice wright-No; not at this time
Mr.. Worthington Objects.
Mr. Worthington-Very well. To III
submission of each of these ques
tions TO the jury, the counsel 10
the defendant objects and excepts tn
action of the court in overrnling the OF
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