The sun., 1907-04-12

but the guards. with the help OF the police,
made n rush that swept the gang back
The jurors then marched up Lafaystts
sireet. two by two. keeping TO the east side
Of tho street as far as Grand street. A
crowd Of 200 or 800 boys and men escorted
.bem on tie other side Of the street. At
Grand street the twelve and their guards
turned west to Broadway. up which thor
oughfare they walked on the western side
walk. until they reached the Broad way
Central. The crowd dwindled rapidly after
1 Grand street was reached 90 that the jurors
attracted little attention in Broadway.
At the hotel private dining room wss
In readiness as usual The jurors left tho
4 hotel at $40 o'clock and marched back 70
1 the Criminal Courts Building over the same
route. Az before, they walked in couples
icolling neither TO tho right nor the loft and
maintuining perfect silence. They didn't
hook like very happy men. They got back
10 the Criminal Courts Building AT half
4 Cast =; sht and az once we're locked up in tho
4 jury room. The crowd had greatly fallen
uif by this time and the re.C.n OF the jurors
attracted little notice.
Upon the return Of the jurv from dinner
4 !, was noticed that Juror Dcnueo ami
follow member each carried rho travelling
bags they used 10 carry their belongings
4 ihe day they left home. This Gsve rise
to run,or that tie jury hli reached a
decision.
4 Night Of NnNiOu waiting.
Il was n night cS anXioua waiting ia the
Criminal Corr;a Building. When the Jury
went, 10 dinnpr a guard of policemen was
placed at cvcry entrance and any person
\ v.ho got in rf,er thc' had 20 show cause.
Il Brt there wcre enough persons OF that sort
TO wake the echoes IN the corridors of the
! hccr. one flight up, whore n" court room
is locate1. While m" sccne IN thc Offices of
the District Attorney on the third floor was
one OF feversh expectancy.
The District Attorney aud Francis y.
i Carvan, his assistant wers always either
in their Offices or within easy hail Oc-
cosionally some onc hurried in with a wise
laok and a more or le.- rlausihle story
that the Jury had agreed or had disagreed
or was looked mp for the night. hut when
called on for his authorities rhe news ds-
seminator had little or nothing to say.
About II O'Clock two Of the Thaw lawyers
lcft the h,:lding IN their way TO a nearby
Cal1. One Of them said he thought II sure
that IL the Jury had not agreed by mi dniGht
they would be discharged.
Justice FitzCiera IL returned 10 the building
at Do clock and went directly to his chambers
adjoining the court room. The members
of the Raw family spent the early part
u the evening string in the court room,
where only the reporters and few attaches
Of the court we're Es.hered Then they
went out ard upstairs 70 the pen. where
they joined Thaw who waS reported 70
be making more or less successful cfor
to maintain q cheerful deneanor, though
/ IL was said that he had about given up hope
\. cf being aCuatted
Once or twice the District Attorney made
trip from mis- Office to the court room. lie
was invariably surrounded by a group Of
anxious inquirers, who thought that his
appearance might mean that he had heard
something definite, AIr. jerome. however.
said that no was just as much in the dark
as ANYBODY else He declared that he
had not the slightest idea what to expect
" and that no result would surprise him
All this time the jury room remained locked.
n Nobody went in and nobody came out and
Y nobody knew what was going on inside,
"a Among those who awaited a verdict were
many men familiar with the history OF crim-
nal trials in this county They pointed
4 out the fact that the Thaw jury had been out
longer than any jury in recent years. By
1880 this morning the Jury will have been
out forty-one hours ami fifteen minutes.
~ Ii took only eight hours for the Jury
60 convict Molineux on his first trial The
4 third Kennedy jury was ont twenty-five
hours and five minutes, the longest of any
Of the Kennedy juries while the second
Nan Patterson Jury was out twenty -four
i hours before they gave il up. The jury
4 which convicted William J. Koerner at his
second trial in 1898 was out ffty-ninn hour4
a and ten minutes.
Thaw FaniI, Dinner SpIIIe1.
The entire Thlw family party remained
II IN the witness room for dinner, sending ont
NJ 10 a restaurant for something to eat. When
n the first waiter responded with A trayfUI
Il OF eatabes and started mp the flight og
stairs that leads from the ground floor 10 the
door of the witness room his foot slipped
4 before he had gone far and down came
waiter, tray. food and all in one horrid
xummy entree with all kinds Of dressings
sk The Thaws who included Evelyn, Mrs
NJ william Thaw, the Countess Of Yarmouth
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie and
IA Edward and Josiah ,haw had to ~ hun
K Kry until the waiter had time to rua"c an
other trip. Thaw had his dinner Hcur tC
him in the prison pen.
Tires OG Thaw Nu:O cut.
IN The Thaw automobile, which has beer
lspt in waiting outside the Criminal Courts
Building in case that Thaw be acquitted
had it's tires cut shortly after o O'Clock
4, This was about the time the jurors returned
4 Il from dinner. The cutting was said to have
IA been done by souvenir fiends. Newspaper
4 photographers were also declared by th'
police TO be- in the affair their object beinI
X 10 delay the prisoner in order 10 get pho
tographs. Another auto was procured
N quickly and stationed at the corner o
White and Elm streets guarded by twt
policemen.
eE A BIE Crowd All Day.
II All day long big crowd hung around
tho Criminal Courts building. much bigger
than on any previous day Of the trial. Il
began to gather before o O'Clock, and by
VI 10 the corridors OF the court building were