The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-11
FATE OF WHITES
SLAYER NOW IN
HANDS OF JURY.
Fail to Reach a Verdict
After Deliberating Six
Hours
UNABLE TO AGREE
Jerome Concludes Argu-
ment, Styling Prisoner
a Rich Illiterate
SCORES ACTS OF WIFE
Unbiased Charge of Court
Startles Family Who Fear
the Result
SCORES ACTS OF WIFE

NEW YORK. April TO-
Charged with the responsibility of decid-
ing the fate of Harry K Thaw. the
jury which since January . has been
sitting In judgment on the young slayer
of Stanford White retired at 5:I5
p. m today to begin the consideration Of
its verdict. Six hours later they had
failed to reach an agreement. and
shortly after II p. m. they were
locked up for the night In the Jury
room OF the Criminal Courts building.
Justice Fitzgerald. who had been wait
ing for some word from the Jury
room, became convinced at that hour
that the chances OF receiving verdict
tonight were too remote to warrant
his remaining up any later Justice
Fitzgerald had earlier In the evening
gone to his club uptown and had held an
automobile in readiness to make a
quick trip to the courthouse should
he be needed. His instructions regard
ing locking up the jury were tsls-
phoned-
DISAGREEMENT Is EXPECTED
1t is said that when Justice Fitzger-
AIDS message was received at thu
courthouse the officer on duty there put
the matter up to the Jurors themselves.
asking II there was any possibility Of
verdict within the next three hours.
The reply was strongly negative. The
jury was said to be almost hopelesslv
divided and nobody connected with the
case tonight would venture the hope OF
anything better than disagreement as
the climax Of the long drawn out trial.
Harry Thaw sat in the prisoners pen
adjoining the courtroom during the
long hours OF the jury's deliberations.
BY his side was his wife and his coun-
sci. who remained with him until ALI
hope of a verdict tonight was aban-
doned. During the early evening all OF
the Thaw family were with the pris-
oner. but before 10 o'clock they made
their way up town to their hotel
Thaw, who was much depressed at
the close of District Attorney Jerome's
impassioned attack on him as a cow
ardly. brutal murderer rich illiterata
who always had his own way until he
fell into the clutches OF the law" re-
vived his spirits as the evening wore on
and the chances OF an unfavorable YER
dict seemed TO him TO become more and
more remote. He was reluctant to
wend his way back over the dinIy
lighted bridge Of sishs to his cell in
the Tombs and to say goodnight to his
wife
CHARGE ALARMS FAMILY
The disagreement OF the jury is the
most unfavorable outcome that Thaw
had at any time anticipated during the
progress OF the trial. His family and
counsel werezn znuch alarmed this after
noon. however. lest the Jury under Jus
tice Fitzgerald's charge might md
verdict of some less crime than murder
in the first degree. The prisoner to-
night did not share this gloomy out
look. and laughed and 1oked to dispel
the serious looks on the faces OF his
mother and wife
Justice Fitzgerald is not expected at
the courthouse tomorrow until 1890.
the usual court session hour. II the
jury should notify him earlier OF an
agreement he might consent to come
down at an earlier hour. but this is not
considered at all likely.
After considering the case for an
hour and a half. the jury was taken to
the Broadway Courthouse Hotel for
dinner. and in the meantime Justics
adjourned court until
o'clock He did not Indicate how late
he would remain at the courthouse.
In the life OF Harry Thaw this day
will go down as the most trying bs
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