Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-04-12
iTHAW JURY UNABLE
. TO Reach VERDICT
BODY ASKS FOR FURTHER IN
STRUCTlONS AFTER DELHI
GRATING 1s HOURS.
TESTIMONY ON SEVERAL
POINTS READ TO THEM
Plan of Roof Garden and Other Ex-
hbits in Case Asked For-Pris-
oner Passes Good Night and Is
Confident of Acquittal.

SOiiiiSElik VI rNSHdiitoI.
New York April 12-After delib-
Grating for more than Is hours with
out being able to reach an agreement,
the jurors into whose hands the fate
of Harry X. Thaw was given at SLY
Wednesday afternoon reported before
Justice Fitzgerald at IL a. m. Thurs
day and asked permission to examine
4 large number of exhibits introduced
during the trial and also asked to
have read to them the testimony of
several of the eyewitnesses to the
tragedy.
List of Exhibits Asked For.
The jury asked Justice Fitzgerald
to be allowed to examine the follow
ing exhibits:
Plan of Madison Square Roof gar
den.
The letters from Thaw to Attorney
Longfellow
The Thaw will and codicil.
The ComstOck letter.
Delmas' hypothetical question.
Jerome's hypothetical question.
The jury returned again to resume
it's deliberations at 1:30 p. m, after
having listened to the reading of tes-
timony for two hours and half. JUS
tice Fitzgerald went out to luncheon
shortly after the jury had retired, an
nouncing that he would not be back
until 2:15 or 2:30 o'clock.
AL far Ny;u ,nI HoL;cI
Among the exhibits called for were
the letters which Harry Thaw wrote
to Attorney Longfellow shortly after,
as alleged, Evelyn Nesbit told him
In Paris the story of her relations
with Stanford White, and the will and
codicil which Thaw executed the
night of his marriage in Pittsburg on
April 4, 1905 The letters and will
were introduced by the defense to
show the mental storm which, it is
claimed, was brought upon the de-
fendant by the story the girl re-
lated
Hear Testimony of Smith.
The jury also asked for the dia-
gram of the Madison Square garden as
it was the night Thaw killed White.
This diagram was held up before them
as the court stenographer read from
the off cial record of the testimony the
evidence given by James Clinch
Smith, the brother-in-law of Stanford
White, to whom Thaw talked for more
than half an hour the night of the
tragedy; the evidence of Meyer Cohn,
the music publisher, whom Mr.. Del
mas had quoted in his summing-up ad-
dress as saying that Thaw, after he
had sent Stanford White to his death,
held out his arms in the shape of
cross, as a priest might do at some
sacrificia1 ceremony; the testimony
of Henry S. Blaise; of Paul Brudi,
the fireman who disarmed Thaw; of
Warren Paxton, the engineer of the
roof garden and other witnesses.
Action Leads to Speculation.
The action of the jury in asking for
the particular exhibits and the testi-
mony indicated led to much specula-
ton as to what the trend of their long
discussion had been. One of the
widely discussed theories was that
the jurors either wanted to refresh
their memories as to testimony tend
ing to show either deliberation or
premeditation on the part of Thaw,
or they wanted to have the story of
Thaw's actions the night of the trag-
edy rehearsed once more in order that
they might Judge as to his nationality.
The suggestion of the latter purpose
seemed to be given weight by the fact
that they desired to examine the let
ters, the will and the codicil brought
forward by the defense in support of
it's claim of insanity.
Verdict Seems Remote.
1t was generally conceded that seri-
Gus differences of opinion had devel-
oped among the jurors as to the evi-
dence, and that verdict of any sort
was still remote. The examination of
the Thaw letters and the other docu-
ments called for will require much
time.
Thaw faced his judges with every
indication of confidence. He, of all
the HeInDeIS OI HIS COuHS6l anu HIS
family, is still hopeful of a favorable
outcome. The best that his counsel
expect is a disagreement of the jury
| They have feared from the time the
jurors retired that there might be a
compromise among them on some less
er degree of guilt than murder in the
first degree.
The action of the jury in calling for
! the testimony did not inspire the at
torneys to any new hope.
How Jury Passed Night.
After being locked in their con
sultation room from II o'clock Wed
nesday night with nothing except hard
chairs and a table to rest upon, the
jurors argued increasingly among
themselves. The few ballots which
were taken indicated, it is said, that
there was wide divergence Of
views.
Their confinement continued unit
seven o'clock Thursday morning, wheI
two by two the u men were marched
| to the Broadway Central hotel fol
breakfast. They looked pale anC
worn as they filed out of the crimina
courts building, but upon their re