Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-12
INTEREST IN CASE IS INTENSE,
Every Move of Jury to Meals and
To and From Jury Room Watch
ed-=-Reports Eagerly Sought.

New York, April 11-Thirty-one
hours Of elaboration and no verdict
Such was the condition of affairs at
11.40 o'clock tonight when the Thaw
jury was ordered locked up for a Sec
Old night at the Criminal Courts
nnilding. The fact that they had not
been able TO agree after devoting so
much time to a study and discussion
of the case has given rise to the belief
that the trial will end in Il disa gree
ment and the whole affair Will have to
be gone over again.
Although the II men have thus far
failed to reach 4 common opinion and
to all appearances are hOpcleSSly at
sea, Justice Fitzgerald has not given
up hope of having Il verdict rendered.
AS yet Deming i. Smith, foreman of
the jury, has not complained to the
court that the jurors are unable to
reach decision and until he does so,
il is not likely that Justice Fitzgerald
VIII discharge them. The general inn
preston prevails that if the Il men are
unable to agree at the expiration If As
hours they Will be released from fur
tner service. Tho very fact, haWcVer
that no intimation has been received
from the jury room that the men are
unable to agree has been construed by
many who have followed the proceed
lnSS closely as an indication that 4 YER
dict will eventually be reached.
The mother, wife and two sisters ana
brother Of the defendant Were in ta..
Criminal Court building up to ;h. last
minute ana when il was finally an
nounccd that the Jury hal been licked
~ ever night ami thorc ,yas 10 i,inlsrr
&Ey prospect Of 4 verdict before to
morrow, they returned to their hotel
crestiaIlen. They hnl hoped ana look
for 4 decision today ana the news that
they would have /" pass another night
in doubt ana anxiety was received with
keen disappointment.
Twice today the u men who took
their places in the jury box more than
two months and a half ago, filed into
the court room ana asked the assist
ancc "I the court in an endeavor 10
bring about an agreement.
The jurors wanted to hear tie cyi-
dcnce Of numerous eye witnesses to
the tragedy; they wanted To hear what
DIR. Allen McLane Hamilton had been
allowed to testify as to Thlw's condi-
tlon the night Of the tragedy; thew
wanted To hear what Evelyn Nesbit
ThaW had said as to her husbands
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