Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-16
Body Is Discharged by
Court After Deliber-
alton of Nearly
As Hours.
STANDING AT THE LAST VOTE.
Justice Fitzgerald Then
Adjourns Sitting of
Bench to April 20.
Big Crowds at Tombs and Court
House-Thaw Tells Why He
Went Armed.


New York, April 13-After deliber-
ating over the fate of Harry Kendall
Thaw for almost 4S hours, the jury
reported to Justice Fitzgerald Friday
afternoon that they had been unable
to agree upon verdict and were dis !
charged.
Court was then adjourned until
April 20.
1t was reported that the final vote of
the jury was seven for murder in the
first degree and five for acquital.
Planning Trial for October.
1t is said that Thaw would be
tried again next October and that
any effort by his counsel to obtain
bail would be vigorously opposed by
the district attorney
Apparently as far away from
verdict as when they retired at
5:17 o'clock last Wednesday after
noon, the jury in the Thaw case
continued Friday the task of try
ing to reach some sort of agreement.
No word whatever had come from the
jury room up to 1890 p. M, when JUS
tice Fitzgerald ordered luncheon re-
cess of court until 2 p. m. At this
hour MONDAY repast was also or
dered for the jurors and was served
to them in their consultation cham
Der
The most remarkable feature of the
jury's long consideration of the case
was the fact that not once during the
43 hours which had elapsed up to noon
had the jury suggested that it could
not agree and thus asked for a dis
charge from further service. The -
men who sat through the many weeks
of the trial apparently felt that their
consciences compelled them to do their
utmost in making some definite dispo-
sition of the case after such pro-
tracted trial and so much expense and
inconvenience to all concerned.
Justice Fitzgerald on his part deter
mined to take no step looking to a
dismissal of the IL men until they
made formal announcement of their
disagreement and requested to be re-
leased.
Crowds Block Streets.
Great crowds gathered about the
criminal courts building and the
Tombs, fully 5000 people blocking the
streets by IL o'clock They came not
only in the hope of securing quick
news of verdict but to catch
glimpse of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw or
some other member of Thaw's family.
When Mrs. Thaw left the building to
go to luncheon she was again all but
mobbed and several scores of police
men had to make a way for her
through the curious throngs.
Crowds began to assemble in the
streets about the criminal courts build
ing as early as $50 o'clock. Several
hundred persons gained an entrance
and took up vantage points along the
three tiers of balconies overlooking
the interior court of the big stfsuc-
ture, in the hope of catching glimpse
of Thaw or some member of his fam
lily.
AZ 1OOh tuC SloWu ClDOul luS COuIl-
house was so great that traffic was
practically stopped. When rumor
that any member of the Thaw family
was about to leave the building they
Surged from one corner to another,
sweeping the few policemen who were
trying to preserve order almost off
their feet.
A call for reserves from several
nearby precinct stations was respond
ed by half hundred men, who were
distributed on both of the streets on
all four sides of the building Inspec-
tor McClusky ISSUED orders that no
crowd was to be permitted to congre-
gate. No one was allowed to stand on
the sidewalks, all of the curious being
obliged to keep moving.
Prisoner Is Cheerful.
Mrs. William Thaw and her sons.
Edward and Josiah, were at the court
house early and as soon as they were
permitted visited the defendant in the
prisoners pen. They found him cheer
full as usual absolutely refusing to feel
depressed over the outlook. A dis
agreement of the jury, however, would
mean another long period of confine-
ment for him.
To the prisoners mother and wife
the anxiety and the strain of the long
wait for a verdict proved a far greater
hardship than to the man whose life Is
supposed to be hanging in the balance
The long delay of the jury's delib-
GRAFTON also proved very hard upon
counsel connected with the case, the
court officers and others whose bust
ness calls them to the trial.
Jurors in Good Spirits.
The Jurors went to breakfast short
ly after seven o'clock in the morning.
In spite of their long confinement the
jurors showed little evidence of the
strain they have been under. All OF
them seemed to be in good spirits
when they returned to the court
building at nine o'clock.
Juror Pink, who was i'll Thursday,
seemed much improved Friday morn
ing. The juror passed quiet night,
T according to the court officers who,