Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
THAW JURY CAREFULLY STUD
les EVIDENCE.
TRYING TO REACH VERDICT
No Complaint Yet Made That Jurors
Despair of Agreement-Ask AS
sistance From Court-Not Al
lowed to Have Delmas' Speech
Locked Up for Second Night.

New York, April 12.-Ihurty-one
hours of deliberation and no verdict.
Such was the condition OF affairs at
l1:40 last night when the Thaw jury
was ordered locked up for the night.
The fact that they had not been able
to agree after devoting so much
time to the study and discussion of
the case has given rise to the belief
nat the rial will end in a disagree
ment
Although the jury is hopelessIy at
sea, Justice Fitzgerald has not given
up hope of having a verfict rendered.
As yet Delling P. Smith, foreman of
the jury, has not complained to the
court that the jurors are unable to
reach a decision and until he does so
it is not likely that Justice Fitzger-
aid Will discharge them. The fact
that no intimation has been received
from the jury room that the men
are unable to agree has been con-
strued as an indication that a verdict
will eventually be reached.
Jury Asks for Assistance.
The mother, wife and two sisters
and brothers of the defendant were
in the criminal courts building up to
the last minute and when it was
finally announced that the jury was
locked up over night and there was
no longer any prospect of a verdict
before today, they returned to their
hotel crestfallen. Twice during the
day the jury tled into the courtroom
and asked the assistance of the
court in an endeavor TO bring about
an agreement The jurors want d to
hear again the evidence of numerous
eyewitneSses to the tragedy. They
wanted to hear what DR.. Hamilton
had been allowed to testify to as to
Thaw's condition on the night of the
tragedy and wi at Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw had said as to her husband 5
conduct that evening; they wanted
to hear repeated again the conversa-
tons Thaw had with James Clinch
Smith just before he committed the
homicide; they wanted to hear sew
several portions of Fitzgerald
charge once more and, finally they
asked permission to take possession
of all the writings of Thaw which had
been introduced into the trial as in
dlcative of the defendants state OF
mind when he heard the story OF
Evelyn Nesbit's alleged wrongs al
the hands of White.
Wanted Part or DeImas' Speech.
All these requests were gladly
granted by the court, but when Fore
man smith, on behalf of the jury
asked that certain portions of Del
mas summing up address be read,
Fitzgerald called halt. He admOn-
ished the jurors that they were to be
guided only by the evidence and were
not entitled to hear again the clos
ing speeches of the lawyers.
,.az..Ssere we're all sorts of rumors and
@sueSses yesterday as to how the jury
stood. None OF the reports had any
degree of authenticity 1t seemed
evident from the jury's action that
their deliberations were Ringing
upon the sanity or insanity of the de
PENDANT as shown by the defense.
From the manner in which the jur-
ors wished to go over the evidence
in all its details, it was surmised that
the verdict, if reached at all, would
be predicated entirely upon the evil
dence and not upon the unwritten
law.