Milford chronicle., 1907-04-19

sister. countess of Yarmouth; MRS.
George Carnegie and Edward and Jo-
siah Thaw, the brothers-receiVed the
news in absolute silence.
When It became kaown that the
fury was about to make its report and
that the case would be disposed Of,
Thaw called his wife to a seat by his
side and sat with his right arm thrown
about her until he was commanded to
stand up and face the jurors. Smiling
and confident as he entered the court
room, he sank Imply into his chair
when Foreman Deming B. Smith, in
response to a question by Clerk Penny
as to whether a verdict had been
agreed upon, said: 1--WE have not"
The mother, her features hidden be
hind a dense veil of black, sat stolid
and motionless. In I'll health of late.
she had felt severely the strain and
stress of the long hours of anxious
waiting. The wife, by her husbands
side, gripped his hand tightly as the
Jury foreman spoke, and then, when he
sunk down by her side, she tried to
cheer him as best she could by saying
that she believed he would now be ad-
mitted to bail and that a second jury
would surely set him free. The mother,
the sisters and the brothers, pale and
well nigh exhausted by their tedious,
nerve racking wait for a verdict,
smiled wanly at Thaw as he was led
AWAY again to the Tombs They were
permitted to speak with him for few
moments to bid him be Of good cheer,
before he crossed the Bridge OF
Sighs" to the cell in the prison, which,
until a few minutes before, he had
hoped that he was about to quit for
ever.
Thaw. when he had returned to the
Tombs prepared and gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
81 believe that every man in the
Jury possessing average intelligence,
excepting possibly Mr.. Bolton, cOmpre-
bend the weight of evidence and bal
anced it for acquittal. All my family
bid me goodbye with courage. trust
I'd. w we may all keep well"
To his attorneys Thaw said he was
deeply disappointed.
'But l could hardly expect anything
else in view of the events of the past
few days" he added.
The story of the proceedings in the
fury room as they were learned FAR
outranged in interest the brief court
proceeding which brought the famous
trial to a close. It developed that the
iurv had considered everything CON
nected with the case except the I'M
written law" Basing their judgment
entirely upon the evidence they voted
either for or against murder in the
first degree when they cast their first
ballots. The first vote was s to in
favor OF conviction. Then the jury
tried to reach a common ground upon
a verdict of manslaughter in the first
degree, the punishment for which
ranges to a maximum of 20 years i'm
prisonment. The men in favor of ac-
guittal-largely on the ground OF in
sanity it is said-would not change
their ballots, and in the end won over
to their side one of the eight who
favored cOnVlcllOn. Dul iH5 IHS HS''i -
4S hours of deliberation only eight
ballots were cast. The jury spent the
two night sessions doing in their
chairs. The entire story of what tran
spired in the jury room from the time
the u men retired at 5.17 o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon until they finally
decided that the prospects of YER
dict we're too remote to warrant longer
discussion of the facts. was told by one
of the jurors, Henry G. Harvey, No. 3,
a manufacturer of pianos. The final
ballot-taken Just before the Jury re