The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-26
ADAMS JURY FAILS
To AGREE AND IS
DISCHARGED
SAID TO HAVE STOOD ELEVEN TO
ONE FOR CONVICTION BUT 16
HOURS pELIeERATIoN DOES
NOT WIN OVER HOLDOUT.

After being out since o'clock
Thursday afternoon, the jury in the
case OF John A. Adams, alias Dr.. An
ton Weichers. charged with deceiying
Miss Rosa RentZ b. means OF ! fake
marriage, reported at O'Clock, Friday
morning. that IL VAS unable 10 agree
ana was discharged by Judge Con-
molly.
At 2 o'clock "A. M. the jury reported
to the Judge that il stood IL to |. and
the foreman asked IL a verdict OF gull
Ity could be rendered If the original
crime were committed in Ohio and
afterwards continued in Detroit Judge
Connolly instructed them on this point
and sent them back. 1t is said that
one man hung out for acquittal.
Only standing room was available
in Judge Connolly's court, Thursday
morning. when the trial OF John A.
Adams, alias DR.. Anton Weichers, was
resumed, and Attorney Thomas j..
Navin rose to make his last appeal
for the liberty OF his clients IL meant
another hour and half OF torture for
Rosa Rentz, the pretty. golden-haired
Louisville girl whom Adams il
mock marriage, and Rosa sat weeping
throughout Navin's address. as she
has done most OF the time since the
case has been in progress.
Mr.. Navin made the most OF the in.
sinuating testimony that has been in
troduced as 10 the relations existing
between Adams and Miss Rentz in
the various cities they visited before
.t..rr Tl..f I'D II I'D ftaF-
ors. as fathers, what they thought or
girl who would travel around with
man as Rosa did with Adams and
pose as his sister in the boarding
houses where they stopped. He dwelt
particularly on the fact that Rosa had
kept her mother In ignorance of these
facts and asked II Rosas conduct had
been such as would be expected from
girl who claimed To be innocent and
unsophisticated He referred. also. to
the fact that Rosa, in her letters to
Adams, had sent him kisses.
Il don't believe there is man on
this jury" he added, who kissed his
wife until he had known her at least
month"
Prosecutor Van Zile, in his closing
argument To the jury, replied TO Mr..
Navin in his Vigorous style, asserting
that IL was Adams. and not Rosa, who
had practiced deceit. and he read from
the girls letters TO the defendant ex-
tracts showing that she had invited
him TO come to her home in Louis
Vile and mad assured MIN a kind re-
ception from her mother.
IF Rosa Rentz is to be blamed for any
thing" he said, lit Is for falling into
the web so crafty woven by this gen
tieman' with the deliberate purpose
of Turing her to her ruin"
The defense rested quite unexpect-
eddy. Wednesday afternoon, taking IN"
prosecution by surprise. Mrs. Nina
Kingsbury, OF Cleveland, and George
Hamilton. OF Columbus. were the only
witnesses sworn. Dispositions had
been taken by the wholesale and some
of them reflected seriously on the
girls character, but the defense de-
cided for reasons known only to the
attorneys, TO dispense with them. u
had been expected that the mysteri
Gus Or. Profert would be sworn. but
he disappeared soon after the unpleas
ant quizzing given him by Prosecutor
I Var Zile off the witness stand the
other day. and has not appeared
since.
The prosecution put on In rebutta'
| Mrs. Mary Heye the mother OF Rosa
Rentz, who testified that Rosa he'
been a dutiful and obedient daughter
and had never gone out nights Test
mony along the same line was give1
| by Miss Elizabeth Harriet. CIR
friend Of Rosa. Detective George Lar
kIns took the stand TO deny the state
merits made earlier in the day by
Mrs Kingsbury to the effect that tn
officer had tried to get her to chang
her testimony.