The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-03
THE M'REE JURY |S UNABLE ID AGREE: MAY BE M|STR|AL Locked Up for Night and Ordered To Report This
 Morning
DEPENDANT IS VERY
 MUCH DISAPPOINTED
Mrs. Mckee Appeared To Be Confi- dent During Morning But Shows Nervouness Under
 Continued Delay

l Opelousas, La, November 2-The jury
 in the Mckee murder trial was locked up
 at o'clock tonight with instructions to
 report to the court at g o'clock tomorrow
 morning when it is expected the court will
 order mstrial
 | Downcast and with sore disappointment,
 Mrs. Zee Runge McRee. was led back to
 her cell in the St. Landay parish jail.
 where she has been held without bal
 since the day in September. seven weeks
 ago today, when she shot to death young
 allan Garland.
 Tie case was given to the Jury at 12:1o
 D. la. After lunch was served they be-
 gan consideration of the evidence, and at
 s:14 reported to the court that they were | hopelessly divided They were ser. back fo further deiberation and at o'clock
 the court took an adjournment until to- | rIoircw.
 Acting District Attorney Dubusson an-
 rounced this afternoon that in the event
 of mistria rehearing would be set | soI Monday of next week. He said the
 state would oppose any motion for a
 change of venue and would insist on the
 secord trial being conducted in opelousas. hppedfeu SOnlluent
 Mrs. Mckee appeared to be confident thIs morning that the jury would acqui. | heI within few minutes even after lis
 tening to the bitter arTaigpment of herself
 as mnrderess and perjurer by Acting District Attorney Dubusson. She smiled and ohatted with her relatives and attor- neys as 1bough not in the least apprehen- sIve as b the verdict
 orIosvefer, after the jury had been out of > the courtroom for 25 minutes both Mg a.id l1rs, McRee began to sbow<signs Of uneasiness. Both had expected a verdict of acGuittal would be rendered immediate ly, and as the minutes passed they seemed to become anxious and engaged in sew Ieiai whispered eonserasttons. f1sile Naiieda Mckee, however. did rot worry her small self In thse ,v.. < but eoinped about the %ss <s~ieast'
 soous of the tria,s z6urtroom aA urcon- In hese moments, m that beset her Nmo,her
 Beore tho -yk of anxious waiting,
 asked that tfjury retired Juror Guidrsse crcunstan mi {,,e s,spurt's charge covering This wi AI*sfidence be read again. request N 6ofarst& with Then at the instructeoE dsfpdxs counsel the court
 or actionA the that insulting words
 warrant if sddIeiently violent would
 slaughter. 4ndue1pks the verdict to man
 be looked Ahatl tAs alleged insult must ,ss guilt of tirAthes derendant, and. that the
 whether sheA deIq<lent depended upon
 danger of greAbei{Sf40r herself to be in
 The court f.A f}1la%h harm at the time;
 favorable to A .sxSll be considered as
 that the mere cH(Rqant. but added led
 weapon carried ofl Ing with deadly
 of malice s.AithAf*the presumption court took a rece4 at fe3Q p. m, and the Ringing in th< Isl untx3 D. m.
 they retired vel Aar the jurors as the strong appe& &A6Nhe osing words Of torney Dubusson4& Dt1e District At the death sentenxe 0& imposition or to do your duty todfA Aisiau4 expects you
 Mr. Dubusson spokSYI4 half. Judge PeaWYkof2 hour ana law in the andfI. n eviewed the they had only the APMNh jurors that to the facts in reaeiN A IVY to apply The defense can appef tiN1r verdict of the written law. XW Ww outsiae sumption of innocence 'a fed the pre- three degrees of murder<X kiained the to consider. He then took upt they had of self defense and the question Skhe law mediate danger and told the juropf m the defendant was entitled to the bei that or anv reasonable doubt. .3eit MT. Dubusson reviewed the evidene = in the case at length and declared the story told by Mrs. Mckee was false in every detail.
 .Gentlemen of the jury. I yield to no one in my admiration and respect for women," said MT. Dubusson. There is nothing on this wide earth as worthy of respect as a good woman. But gentlemen, the majority of the worst, the most damnable, the most a,rocious crimes in the history of the world have been committed by bad won- en-" M Here he made reference to the famous Guinness farm murder.
 Mir. Dubusson reviewed the contradic- tons between the evidence of Mrs. Me Rec and that of Bullard Anderson. Syl- vester and Mouret. the three witnesses who testified variously that they hao seen Mrs. Mckee walking with Allan Garland under an umbrella in the corn field saw her with her arm on his shoul- der and walking hand in hand While hunting
 Has Bullard, Anderson, Sylvester Of Mouret any motive in swearing falsely? "This woman has a motive. She has tho strongest motive in the world to tell untruth because her fate is trembling in the balance and before her are the walls of the penitentiary or the gallows in the tower.'
 MT. Dubusson then said that Allen Garland was a gentleman; that the ac. ton alleged by the defendant as reason for taking his life was the action of q brute, of negro with an 1s-inch collar. a brute filled with animal passion But" and MT. Dubussons voice rose, "Allan Garland was no brute. He was a gentleman; he was scholar; he vas no brute"
 Mir Dubusson ridculed the idea that Allan Garland would have chosen such a time to make such a proposal to her when he had other and better opportunl- ties.
 "The state does not have to prove a mofive." continued Mir. Dubuisson. That homicide was committed by that woman getting that pistol from the back room. or some other place of concealment. She then stepped up behind the chair and shot him without giving him any chance to send the slightest word of prayer to his Maker.
 She says she doesn't remember how many times she shot him. Rather re-