The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
COULD NOT AGREE.
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we had confidently looked for con-
viction- I will say for Mrs. Swope
that she is hoping that the case will
prove a lesson to Frances and cause
her to drop her connection with Hyde
and return to her mother"
Foreman Wirth said: THE jury
did their best. They worked hard
with some hope of an outcome until
Friday night. We took the last ballot
just before being taken into court to-
day. We took fourteen ballots in ALL
Force Way Through.
The crowd was so dense that it was
with difficulty that the accused pilysi-
clan and his wife forced their way out
or the grimy court room, in which al
most daily for two months they have
been seated for hours listening to testf-
mony or arguments or waiting for the
silent jury room to open. When they
reached the street they walked, ac-
companied by a half dozen relatives
and friends, uptown to where they had
as usual left their electric brougham
In front of the federal building
Government employees, who since the
jury went out, have wat Che 1 the little
electric car to see whether it depaI ed
With or without Or. Hyde, observe d
the physician and his wife and sister
enter the car and drive away to their
nome on The South side. The watchers
argued from thar circumst an.ca that
DIR. Hy.ie had bean acquitted or that
the julv Lad disagreed.
the largest crown o. the trial rack
ed the court room today. Every inch
or standing room was taken. Persons
stood on chairs AMI Oh the backs of
them and on window stills ard ratings.
The crowd ~t.s not deElonstrative. Tie
usual exclamation was:
We'll, it's over with, anyway
Courtroom Crowded.
When the jury was brought in at
noon the courtroom was crowded,
Mrs. Hyde sitting by her husbands
side, as she had all through the long
wait. Judge Porterfield repeated the
question he had put to Wirth so often
within the last few days:
Have you agreed upon a verdict? %
We have not" answered Wirth.
is there any chance for YER
dict?
None whatever" promptly replied
the foreman.
A moment later, as the judge began
a poll of the jury, it was apparent
that the end of the trial was close
MRS. Hyde, her features drawn, lean
ed forward. Hyde, chewing gum and
less concern than many 9TH
ers in the room looked calmly at the
Jurors. When the last of the twelve
men had given his assurance that fur
ther attempts at an agreement were
useless, the judge began a statement
to them and in another minute dis
e0u lAeAi. MIS- nyue SetIIeO
back with sigh, while Hyde smiled
and turning patted her on the cheek
Judge Porterfield said. the defendants
bond of $4,000, under which he has been
at liberty during the trial. held good
until the case is re-opened and set for
rial again.
Il will probably set the case for the
april term of court, depending largely
IN the prosecutions further action II
never have tried a case so hard in my
ife. 1t would have been much better
had it ended with a verdict
Later Judge Chrisman said:
. Il think the case should certainly be |
Prosecuted further. The plea made by i
some people that for the prosecution |
o spend further money 1T is Improper. |
Fhe prosecution should at least be able |
o push the case as long as has the |
License, which has been spending it's |
money so lavishly."