The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-04-18
M|STRIAL FOR THAW
The Jury Failed to Agree
and is Discharged.
DISAPPOINTMENT GREAT
Seven Jurors Were for Conviction and
Five for AeauittaI-Salacious
Rot Must Be Rehearsed
~; Again.

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+: A New York special says: Hope
lessly divided-seven for verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree
and i've for acquittal on the ground
of insanity-the jury which since
January % has been trying Harry
X. Thaw reported Friday afternoon
after forty-seven hours and eight
minutes of deliberation that it could
not possibly agree. The twelve men
were promptly discharged by Justice
Fitzgerald, who declared that he, too
believed their task hopeless. ThaW
was remanded TO the Tombs with
out bail to await a second trial on
the charge of having murdered Stan
ford White.
When this new trial will take place
no one connected with the case couldt
express an opinion. District Attor-
ney Jerome declared that there were
many other persons accused of homi-
eide awaiting trial and that ThaW
would have to take his turn.
As to a possible change OF venue
both the district attorney and counsel
for Thaw declared they would make
no such move. Thaw's attorneys
will have a conference with the
prisoner to decide upon their next
step. They may make an early appli-
cation for bail. Mr. Jerome said
that he will strenuously oppose it.
He added that as seven of the jurors
had voted for guilty." his opposition
probably would be successful. In
that event, Thaw has another long
summer before him in the city pris-
on, for his case on the already crowd
ed criminal calendar cannot posi-
bly, be reached until fall.
The scenes attending the announce
ment by the jury of its inability to
agree were robbed of theatricalism by
the general belief that after their
long dehberation anu the reports Of
8 wide division of sentiment, the jur-
ors could make no other report.
Thaw, surrounded by the members
of his family-the devoted aged
mother, the pale ycang, wife, the IT,
tied sister-the countess of Yarmouth
Mrs. George Carnegie and Edward
and Josiah Thaw, the brothers, re-
ceived the news in absolute silence.
Thaw's wife gripped her husbands
hands tightly as the jury foreman
spoke, and then when he sank down
by her side, she tried to cheer him
as best she could by saying that she
believed he would now be admitted
to bail, and that second jury would
surely set him free.
The mother, the sisters and the
brothers, pale and well-nigh exhaust.
ed by their tedious, nerve-racking
wait for a verdict, smiled weakly at
Thaw as he was led away again to
the Tombs. They were permitted to
speak with him for a few moments
to bid him be Of good cheer before
he crossed the bridge of sighs" to
the cell, which until a few minutes
! before he had hoped he was about to
quit forever.
Outside the big square criminal
courts building only a few hundred
persons were gathered. Thousands
had been there earlier in the day,
but the police had instructions to
keep every one moving, and this
soon tired the idly curious.
Thaw, when he had returned to
the Tombs, gave out the following
statement:
i believed that every man in the
jury possessing average intelligence,
excepting possibly Mr.. Bolton, COM
pretended the weight of evidence ard
balanced it for acquittal. All OF my
family bid me goadby with courage.
I trust ID. W we may all keep
WE'LL