The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-10

DtdctlclnB ia Inc Criminal courts wa
waiting impatientiy late one night fo
the verdict of jury In case he ha,
just tried. The case had been an in
tricate one, with many exhibits. an,
tie jury had been out long time.
In the courtroom and outside of i
lounged the usual crowd. Relative.
and friends OF the prisoner lawyer
who he'd followed a crooked legal trai
prayed and hoped for his vindlca
ton. Outsiders, there from curiosity
alone, laughed and chatted of other
trials. A young assistant district at
torney. 10 whom a conviction meant
praise from his chief, sat OFF in a
corner and muttered to sympthetic
companions:
What can be the matter with those
fellows? What's keeping EN- so long
IL there ever was an open and Shut
case this it it,
A court officer hurried from the
jury rom with message for the Judge.
The jury has agreed it was wh!s-
pered. The defendants lawyer stop.
ped his impatient tramping up and
down the corridor. A victory would
please him, but even if the jury's yer.
dict was against him his work was
done for the night
II waiting around Ike the this
makes fellow 10 fretful and nervous.
he remarked. 4 wonder how the pris.
oner must feel while the jury is decid-
Ing
There was q sign of disappointment
when the court officer hurried back
from the jt,lge, saying thar there had
been no agreement the Jury had ask
ed the judge for instructions en- a point
of law. Dan Kelly, deputy sheriff and
veteran prison guard, became reminis
cent.
How do they feel those men ana
women to whom a iury's verdict means
muchsn he repeated What are tha
emotions of d prisoner while awaiting
the verdict or 4 B 1neng
Kelly leaned back and closed Ills
eyes For Il score of years Id has had
charge of most Of the famous prison
ers on trial i'll the criminal courts
bniiling. While the Jury Is out the de-
PENDANT IL kept in pen within easy
reach of the court room.
They All take Il differently,n said
Kelly III all depends did the physical
ann mental makeup of the prisoner.
And Won never can tell how they wilt
net, While the trial III going Oh some
XII them show lots OF nerve, hut that
IA while they have their lawyers Al
their side. Hut when the lawyer las.
made his last plea, the prosecutor
has put HI his best licks for convic-
fion and tho Judge has delivered hts
charge then many prisoner who has
shown great nerve during the trial be.
comes tho very opposite They even
become hystaerical. and many of them
almost collapse iss.I
s'0f course. That III not always ING
case, but II frequently happenss Often
the weak, frightened creature who
gets your sympathy Turing the trial
II calm and apparently uneoncerned
while the jury II celebrating.
The ignorant and uneducated pris
oners, dts rule, are affected more
than the intelligent and educated. |
suppose that Is because the educated
have better contrcl of their minds.
maybe they are better able To conceal
their feelings, guess 1t amounts to
tho same thing.
You can't help feeling sorry for |
some Of the ignorant prisoners. u have
seen cases where wouLl have sworn
that this prisoner became temporarily |
insane while witifg for the jury. They
tear around the PEN pulling their hair |
anu ready to butt their heads against |
d wall Ait the same time, have hand
led some ignorant prisoners who were
M stoIid that they didn't seem to care
about the outcome
Are women worse than men? Not
as a rule. You'd think 80. wouldn't
your But it's not the case. i've seen |
many women who had tho men beaten
mn I'd pieces On nerve. remember
one woman who was tho cooleHt thing
I ever had anything I'd do with She
was charged with larceny, thiny, and
the prosecution had made out d good
case The jury had been out a couple
IA hours and she hadn't displayed THE
least concern Why. rye cot thisf
beaten, she said to me- The worst I
can Tut Iii disagreement i've got /
that jury conned even II am guilty
"She surprised me, for II was the
flrst time she had been arrested, and
there was nothing W show that she
had been assoclating with crooks. yet
sho acted like an DID timer. Sure
enough. the jury disagreed but she
was tried again ana convicted.
slt's funny the way some of them
speculate cn the length of time a juryl
Will be out. "A criminal who has been
through The mill generally regards It
as h good omen when the Jury doesn't |
hand him verdict right away The |
criminal decides taat when u takes 4
Jury long time III agree they arc
doubtful about his guilt, ana that he
Wall either be acquitted Or there Will
he n disagreement When criminal
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