Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-15

ANNtNAlN 10 not entertain very NAto0tAliN
recollection Of what judges call "a ciu-
zens patriotic duty" The case on which
they sat was that Of a fellow who had
been indicted for assault. revolver
figured in the episode, and the defense
was that the prisoner undertook to com
nit suicide, but the shot went wild be-
cause one Of the two women he was &C
cused Of terrorizing had stricken up his
arm The Jurors thought that while the
defendant had been guilty OF disorderly
conduct and some offense against the pub
lie peace, they could not agree that he
was guilty as charged in the indictment"
Reporting this view to the court they re-
ceived additional instructions and. once
mere considering the case, finally re-
TUNED a verdict of not guilty. Thereupon
the court relieved its mind at their ex-
pense and ordered their names to be
stricken from the jury list The man
they set free was indicted the next day
for attempted suicide and carrying con-
cealed weapons and. after a fifteen min
utes' trial, was found guilty and com
mitted TO the reformatory for an indefln-
lite period.
During the weeks that have since
elapsed the Jurors who were made the OBJ
jects of public reproof have been debat-
ms their grievance, and they have now
Issued a temperate statement of their
rights and duties. They assert that the
verdict which they rendered was the only
ono they could conscientiously give; they
intimate that the judges proceedings upon
the receipt OF that verdict were "unwar-
ranted, illegal and oppressive. an impo-
sition upon said jury, and misuse Of
the temporary power, which a court holds
only in the capacity Of public servant"
and they submit that, II the verdict of
Jury In criminal case must needs be the
verdict OF a presiding judge. then every
issue Of fact may be left with the court
and people may save themselves the empty
formality of providing iuries."
Curious SWANS OF Glenwood. L. l., who
were anxious TO see how their young
woman friends would look at a hobble
skirt party given by Miss Lillian Hahn
were barred from the Hahn home by the
hostess own orders
| Some Of the young men tried to gain ad-
mittance to the house while the party was
in progress, but the, hostess stationed two
strong young women friends at the front
door, with orders to repel, by force, IL
necessary, all attempts at entrance by any
man.
Miss Hahn besides being socially promi-
nent is an athletic girl She thinks nothing
Of taking a three mile swim across Hunt
ington harbor on a summer day. and sew
eral years ago she had the reputation of
! being the fleetest runner of either sex in
\ Glenwood.
! week ago she sent out invitations to
her hobble skirt party. She furnished games
for her guests until they had become &C
customed to travelling from one side OF the
room to the other in their skirts Then
dancing commenced.
Young men gathered in the roadway near
the house, waiting TO accompany the guests
home, say they heard many a dull thud, ac-
/ companed by laughter. When the music Of
| the Virginia reel was heard one hardy
youth ventured to peep through a window
He told his companions that he saw three
young women lying on the floor in a heap
A heated discussion between two coro-
ners at Burlington. N. j. as to which should
take charge of a, case, was interrupted by a
| supposedly dead man, who suddenly sat up
| threw off blanket that covered him and
| exclaimed:
! Haven't got anything to say about this Z?
| What's the matter here, anyway
/ Then he fell back apparently dead again
This time, however, the work of physicians
was successful and he was revived. He dis
/ charged the coroners and resumed charge
of his own body.
The man was a farmer named Buzby,
who was found by his own brother face
downward and apparently hfeless on the
! floor of a room In the Metropolitan hotel
DIR. ]. b. Cassidy and other physicians
after working over Buzby for a long time,
pronounced him dead. An undertaken ar
rived and Coroner Bsbing and Coroner
laaa T.aa koI
The physicians say Buzby was in a state
of coma, with complete cessation Of resp ra-
ton and pulsation for at least ten minutes.
His hands and feet, they say had begun
| to grow cold before stimulants had effect
Mrs. BETH Kupferman, a widow with a
small business in the williamsburg section
OF Brooklyn, has fallen heir to a great for
tune, left to her and her children, Just as
she was becoming discouraged in the
struggle to educate her pretty daughter
and her two sons. Just before her husband
died, thirteen years ago, leaving her with
the tree children to support he said:
BETH, you viii be rich some day, you
and the children. My rich relatives back
in the old country will take care Of
you"
About two weeks ago stranger came
! to the house saying that he was cousin
OF her husband, and that relative had
left a small amount Of money to Mr.
Kupferman. He said It would be trouble
some fdr her to collect the legacy in Aus
tria, and offered to have her assign her
claim to him for $500 Mrs Kupferman re-
fused, and the next week the stranger
came back and offered her $500.
A few days later she got letter from
Alexander Won Muller, the consul general
here Of Austro- Hungary, which told Der
that her dead husbands uncle had died
leaving a large estate to her.
1T Is 50 big that l don't know how big
It Is" said Mrs. Kupferman when she re-
| turned from the consulate. He left us
thousands and thousands OF florins and
miles and miles of estate, can't re-
member where 1t is, for the name is 80