Arizona republican., 1906-05-10
JENKS JURY
 HANGS FIRE
No Verdict Was Reached
 Last Night
The Third and Last Day Consumed by Expert Testimony and the Ar- kuments.

The jury in the case of Hallie Jenks, charged with the murder of Sadie
 Jones' an inmate of the insane asylum,
 on the evening of March 19, went to
 bed about 10 o'clock last night without
 having arrived at a verdict. No hint
 of the attitude of the members had reached the outside wirld, but there
 was an impression that a majority of
 the members were in favor of acquittal.
 Indeed. that kind of verdict had been
 expected by a majority of those who
 had been attending the trial during the
 three days it had been in progress.
 The trial lasted throughout the third
 day and it was not until nearly 3
 o'clock that the arguments were con-
 cluded and the case was submitted.
 The day was given largely as the day
 before had been, to the hearing or tne expert testimony of the physicians,
 bearing largely upon the character of
 turpentine with reference to its deadh- ness or harmlessness. In rebuttal, the territory adverted for the first time to the possibility that Mrs. Jones might have died of suffocation. It was, how
 ever, not cOntended that she had so died, nor was there a strenuous effort to show the possibility of suffocation as the direct cause of her death. The condition of the lungs at the autopsy had not suggested strangulatiOn, and reliance was therefore mainly placed upon the turpentine theory.
 The trial was resumed yesterday morning with Dr. Duffield on the stand. The testimony of the doctor had been interrupted the evening be- fore by adjournment He was a strong witness for the defense and ne was subjected to a rigid cross examination which lasted an hour. His testimony in substance was that the death of Sadie Jones could not have been caused by the use of turpentine. Tur- pentine could not in any way have produced those symptoms. discovered | by the post mortem examination nor | would it have been possible for the | woman to have been killed by the use | which had been made of the drug
 Death he believed to have been due | to a variety of causes. The woman | was sufferer from syphilis in an ad- | vanced stage. For years she mad been l addicted to the use of morphine. CO., | caine and chlOral. All these had been ! withdrawn from her and for at least | four days she had had none of them. | Such a condition would leave ner dan | gerously weak. The struggle which | preceded her death would very natur- ally have produced a fatal exhaustion. |
 Other witnesses for the defense were | Dr. Craig, Dr. Dysart pr. Bell and Dr. | Thomas, all of whom were inclined | against the turpentine theory. Miss | Jenks was recalled and questioned re- garding matters which had been gone | over and pr. Ford was put on for the defense. He discussed turpentine from a chemical standpoint. The doctor did | not regard turpentine as poison It had he said the effect of absorbing the ozone in the atmosphere and of rear ranging the atoms of oxygen but was regarded rather as a promoter of oxy- gen. The burden of his testimony was that turpentine as it was applied to Sadie Jones could not have been fatal
 Dr. Palmer and Dr. Plath were re- called for the territory. Both of them were asked regarding the demonstra- uon made by Dr. WyIie the day before Dr. Palmer said that it could have no since the conditions under which it was made were quite differ ent from those under which turpentine i had been applied to the dead woman pr. Plath took the same view and went l on to class it with those spectacular intended to influence juries.
 Both physicians touched upon a new theory in the case-that of suffocation or strangulation. It was not stated by either of them that death had come that way but they both testified in re- ply to questions that the woman might have been suffocated
 Both sides now rested and Judge Kent delivered the instructions. In the beginning he eliminated entirely the of the charge of murder in the first degree from the considera- ton of the jury The instructions bearing upon murder in the second degree practically cut that charge out and left nothing but the subjects of