The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Jury in Municipal Court Finds
Giles Not Guilty of Charges
Brought by Federation
PONDER LONG. OVER VERDICl
Final Agreement is not Reached Until
After Jury Had Been Out Over
"a Hours and Had Twice Ask
ed for More Instructions

The Kenosha Civic Federation has
lost its first real fight in the Municipal
Court for Kenosha county for just at
ter one p. N. Tuesday the jury
which heard the evidence in the case
of the State VS.. Jacob Giles, charged
with leasing a room for gambling pur-
poses by members of the Federation re-
turned Il verdict finding Gies " Not
Guilty and he was later formally dis
charged from custody by the, court.
fhe verdict was reached after more
than twenty four hours of wfangling on
the part of the jury, but it is admitted
THAT from the first ballot a. majority
T of the jurors favored the release of the
defendant on the ground that the evil
uence dia not show conclusively that
Giles was in charge of the place where
gambling was alleged to have occurred.
The people interested in the case had
Eexpected that the jury would disagree
when they failed to find verdict be-
fore midnight last night and neither
District Attorney Baker, tie defendant,
nor his attorney, Calvin Stewart were
| in Court when the verdict was render
ed District Attorney Baker notified
the court that he would waive his right
to be in court and later Attorney Stew
art appeared and waived the right of
the defendant to be present in person
and the verdict was opened Only a
few people were in the court room
when the verdict was read and it was
dent reached the court room just after
the jury had been discharged by the
court.
The jury was one of the busiest
iuries ever given q, case in the courts
of tins county and it seems that some
of the bitterness shown by the attor-
neys in the case was communicated to
the jury after it took the case under
consideration. During the first few
Ihours Of the consideration Of the case
there was great deal of argument in
the jury room, but later on the jury
settled down and this was the. begin
ming Of the dead lock. AS early as
/ four 'clock Monday afternoon it was
reported that the jury was unable to
agree. At that time the jurors came
into count and asked for further in
structions. Judge Randall was told
by the foreman Monroe Weeks, that
the jury was in doubt as to what
charge they could find in the case. The
court directed that the instructions be
read to the jury again, but gave no
specific instructions on the point raised
by the jurors. At this it was stated
badly divided on the question of the
guilt of the defendant, but the court
made no effort to discover how the
jury stood, but sent them back for the
night. Later on he instructed the
deputy in charge Of the jury to permit
them to go to hotel and get little
sleep. Early this morning the jurors
were out and discussing the case and
at ten CLOCK they came into court
lagain and stated that they were stuck
on the same point which bothered them
on Monday afternoon.
The foreman stated that several of
them had arrived at verdict, but that
the remaining members of the jury
could not see the case the same way.
The court gave some added instructions
turging the men to use every possible
effort to get together on the verdict
and the jury retired again.
Friends Of the defendant stated dur
ing the morning that they had heard
a rumor that the jury stood nine for
acouital and three for conviction, but
this is regarded as simply an idle
rumor.