Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-01

move for a commission at this time,
or a transfer to another asylum.
New York. Feb. 1.-After having
argued and balloted all night long IN
the stuffy little jury room adjoining
the chamber of the criminal branch
of the supreme court, the Thaw jur-
ors this morning heartily welcomed
their release from confinement. when
shortly before o'clock they were tax
en- up town to breakfast. Several of
the iurymen are well along in years
and the all night session seemed to
have gone~nadly with them. Their
faces were drawn and tense, and the
good natured companionship which
had been SO noticeable in the jury ever
since the panel was completed was
gone.
No report with any degree of au-
thenticity was received from the jury
room this morning. Thaw. altho late
to bed, was up with the gray of dawn
this morning. and to his keepers in the
Tombs he expressed the hope that the
verdict had been reached. He was
thoroughly convinced before retiring
last night that the rumor Of divid-
ing jury, eight to four in favor Of
acuuittal on the grounds of insanity
was true. He felt today that the
minority might be won over. Thaw at
last seems absolutely reconciled to
the fact that the best he can hope for
Is a term of confinement in an asy-
lum. He Is convinced, however, and
SO are his attorneys, that he would be
able to win his way out of the asylum
in a short while, as the tests he stood
last year when arraigned before the
commission in lunacy We're quite con-
vincing as to his present ability to
prove his soundness of reason.
Thaw Spends Bad Night.
When the jurymen returned to the
criminal court room from their hotel
at 10 o'clock, all seemed physically lit
to continue their deliberations for
some time to come. Never since the
killing of White has Thaw spent so
restless a night as he did last night
and during the early hours of morning.
During the early hours of the night
Thaw smoked a good deal. He seemed
to think the jury would return Ver-
dict before midnight. When he learned
that the jury had failed to agree be-
fore he had been locked up for the
night, he became restless. Altho he
tried to sleep he was Wakeful, and aft
er doze would wake again and ask
the warden for news Of the jury.
Mrs Evelyn Thaw' visited her hus-
band during the morning and reported
he was quite detected over the out
look. Thaw is reported to have said:
II am afraid that despite the vigi-
lance of my counsel, there are two or
three men on the jury with innate
prejudices against me. l have in mind
one particular juror whose name ii
shall not mention. But no one who
has followed the trial with any degree
of interest can have failed to notice
the significance glances this juror
exchanged with member of the pros
ecution. This was particularly notice.
able at the conclusion of Littleton's
address,"
When Justice Bowling reached the
court room at IL: 35, there was no word
awaiting him from the ThaW jury. The
justice announced that he would not
send for the jury until he received
some definite word from them.
At the request of Littleton, Justice
Bowling has delayed execution of the
order committing Thaw to the asylum
until 3 p. M, to allow counsel to confer
as to whether or not a writ of habeas
corpus will be sued out to have his
sanity tested by the commission before
he is taken to Mattewan. Thaw was
called back from prison, and had
luncheon with his wife in an ante
chamber of the court room. The jury
men all refused to divulge the secrets
of their deliberations, further than to
say that fourteen ballots were taken.