The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-12
Noted Prisoner Maintained
Cheerful, Almost Gay
Attitude.
MANY GUESSES HAzARDED AS
TO PROBABLE VERDICT, THE
GENERAL BELIEF BEING THAT
JURY WILL FAIL TO AGREE
JURY LOCKED UP WITHOUT
SLIGHTEST COMFORTS.
BY Associated Press.


New York. Apr. 1I-Thirty hours
elaboration brought the Jury In the
Thaw case to no conclusion and at
1880 O'Clock tonight the jury was
locked up until 1890 tomorrow
Twice during the day the jury
asked the court for information and
Instructions; the jurors wanted to
hear again the evidence of eye wit
nesses to the tragedy; the conversa-
ton OF Thaw and James Clinch
Smith; what fhaw's wife said of her
husbands conduct thai night; several
portions Of the courts -eharge we're
asked for and read and the jury
asked for and secured several ex-
hibits of the trial including many OF
Thaw's letters All of these requests
were granted, but when Foreman
Smith asked to hear a portion OF
Lawyer Delmass speech, the court
admonished him that the evidence
and got speech of counsel was the
Jury's guide.
The entire Thaw family was early
IN court and remained until late at
night waiting for a verdict, and was
compelled to receive assistance from
the police to get past the surging
crowd outside.
Thaw is Cheerful.
Thaw maintained a cheerful atti-
tude during the day and when he
first came into court carried a large
package under his left arm, evident
~ expecting acquittal.
This morning found the twelve
men who are charged with the duty
of finding Harry Kendall Thaw guilty
or not guilty of Stanford Whites
swift death at his hand last June. still
locked up in the jury room in the
criminal courts building. They had
been confined there since I1:20 O'Clock
last night, and they had had the care
committed 10 them shortly after 5
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
Fewer rumors than usually filter
sfrom jury room when great case
IS near its end reached the outer air
last night or today, but scant and
comparatively Yalueless as these re
ports were, their trend was all in the
Ssame direction-disagree OF
course guesses, some of them based
on shrewd deductions and some OIL
them on mere hearsay, were not in
frequent.
; O'Reiily's Forecast.
Daniel O'Reilly, one of the prison
er's lawyers, who has been credited
with a successful forecasting of the
way the jury stood in the Nan Patter-
son case, said that the jury stood
ten for acQuittal and two for murder
in the first dssree.
As for the defendant. the cheerful
ness and even gayety which marked
his recovery from me gloom which
almost overwhelmed him WREN Lis
trict Attorney Jerome excoriated him
and his wife, and Justice Fitzgerald
solemnly adjured the jury to do their
duty, remained with him until late IN
the night. Indeed, through Clifford
w. Hartridge. mis- personal counsel.
he sent a message to one of the news
papers, which quotes him as declaring
that he had the absolute conviction
that he would be acquitted, and
added
Says Act Was JustitabIe
81 fear neither the electric chair
nor the madhOuse, for my act was
justifiable."
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. who
stayed with him until all the Hkeli-
hood that the jury would return
verdict last night hat vanished, ex-
pressed an assurance like his that he
would be acquitted.
A jury locked up 10 consider a case
Is given no comforts. The chairs in
the jury room adjoining Part l of the
trial term of the supreme court in
which Thaw had his hearing are hard
STRAIGHTFORWARD affairs. in which even
few moments of sleep for tired
jUryman would be well night impossi-
BILE. The one long table in the center
Continued on Fourth Paqe.)