Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-01-26
.SCHENK POISONING
CASE IN HANDS
OF JURORS
NO VERDICT REACHED
AT NINE LAST NIGHT
Twelve Ordered Locked Up to
Report This Morning. Closing
Argument Bitter Anaignment
of Fainting Woman.
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wrestling more than four hours dur
ing an afternoon and night session.
with the evidence In the easeNof Mrs.
Laura Farnsworth Schenk. charged
with poisoning her husband. John o.
Schenk, the jury was unable to reach
an agreement. and at 10 o'clock to-
night Judge Jordan ordered the men,
bers sent TO their hotel. to be locked
up for the night.
The jury will resume considera don
Of verdict at 0 o'clock Thuralay
morning, though II "A possible inevr-
NAL consideration win be continued
tonight. ~
After the jury had been excused
for the night a large crowd packed
the street ana sidewalks near the
courthouse, The crowd swarmed
from the adjoining square where II
had stood from 1880 until 10 o'clock.
A squad OF policemen and all the
available deputy sherlffs had to be
called upon to clear the streets be-
fore the Jury was taken out OF the
courthouse.
When Prosecutor J. B. Hanlan con-
cluded his argument to the jury this
afternoon the end of the trial OF Mrs
Laura Farnsworth schenk. charged
with poisoning her husband, John O.
Schenk. was reached. and the Jury
Immediately retired.
At o'clock the Jury had not re-
turned verdict and when deputy
sheriff went to the Jury room to take
It to supper. ne found them with theil
coats Off and apparently In the height
of heated discussion. The jury asked
| for half an hour more before supper
In which they expected to reach some
| decision. At the end Of the half houl
they had no definite answer to sub.
nit and were taken out to the even
ing meal with Instructions to return
lat 730 and continue deliberations
Judge Jordan rnounced that h,
would walt until 3 o'clock when II ne
verdict was reached the jury would
be locked up for the night.
Shortly after Prosecutor Hanlan
finished his argument and as the
Jury was retiring. Mrs. schenk coli
lapsed. Her face was swollen and
distorted almost beyond recognition
by her constant sobblng
Mr.. Hanlan asked the jury to show
no mercy to woman who had delib-
erately violated her marriage vows,
snaring young Dan Phillips with her
wiles and had then calmly plotted TO
kill by slow poison her husband, who
lavished her automobiles, costly cloth
ing-.and Jewels.
Her heart is flint" he shouted.
utterly incapable of human SYM
pathy, love or affection.
'One OF the most horrible things
Il has ever been my lot to come In
contact with was when this woman
looked upon the murder of her hus-
band In cold blooded light OF sim
pie business proposition When un-
successful herself. she offered anoth-
er q thousand dollars to do her vile
work for her.
but even this was not the climax
OF the fiendishness Of that woman
sitting there. That came when she
contemptuously referred to the Sis
ters of Charity at the hospital where
her husband was lying at the point
of death, who were going about on
their errands Of mercy anu charity.
as black yelled hypocrltes.'
s. o. O'Brien concluded the argu-
ments for the defense at the morn
ing session and dwelt Principally upon
the unreliability Of circumstantial
avidaurQ