Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-28
F|ORE MURDER
Jury DISAGREES
Nine Vote for AcquittaI After
21-Hour Deliberation.
Discharged.

After being out all night, the jury
( in the Antonio Fiore murder trial
unable 10 agree. was discharged to-
day by Justice Martin.
The jury had been celebrating 81
hours and Is minutes. y stood 9 for
acquittal and 5 for conviction.
The jurors absolutely refused to
discuss their deliberations or to
tell on what part of the testimony
they had split. Likewise they re-
fused to tell Who the three We're
who held out for conviction but it
was learned nevertheless than San
ford w. Drake the foreman. car
penter of COS Summer avenue;
George Checkley. a butler, of 500 Mt
Prospect avenue, and Palmer G.
Crane, hardware dealer, of $50
South Thirteenth street, we're the
three who stubbornly insisted that
F'iore was guilty Of murder in the
first degree.
There was not a change from the
first ballot TO the last. 1t could not
be learned how many ballots were
taken, but one of the jurynen said
that the jury took a ballot on an
average of once an hour during the
p hours they were out.
Fiore is accused of having forced
Mrs. Ciccone to murder her husband.
| The woman said Fiore had supplanted
her husband in her affections, and
that she was powerless to resist his
bidding She said he threatened to
| kill her unless she slew her husband.
/ She is under sentence of death for
the act.
After being out from 3:t5 O'Clock
/ yesterday afternoon until 1915, with
nothing to eat but sandwiches, the
| jury were brought before Judge Mar
| tin and asked If they had agreed.
/ I'VE have not" was the reply of
Foreman Sanford w. Drake.
Does there seem TO be any pros
poet of reaching an agreement"
asked Judge Martin.
NO prospect that ] see, was the
reply
1T is a great disappointment said
Judge Martin, ito have a jury dis
agree. after trial lasting four days
at a great cost to the county and a
loss of time for all concerned. No
Juror for that reason, should give
up his own opinions, but the court is
unwilling at this time to accept
decision that you cannot agree. You
will please return, gentlemen, and
give further consideration TO the
case"
! without protest. but with sullen
| looks, the unsmiling twelve men once
more wended their way upstairs TO
/ the Jury room, once more 10 resume
the weary effort to get together.
Deadlock Is Hopeless.
II is not expected that the jury will
reach an agreement, as it Is known
they are hopelessly split on the qnes-
/ ton of the guilt or innocence of Fiore.
At midnight last night the jurors
/ sought information from Judge Mar
| tin as to whether the visit to the jail
made by little Annie Ciccone, when
she IS alleged to have received the
message from Fiore, You tell your
mother to poison her husband, ana
tell her If she don't | will kill her
when ! get out" had been corrobo-
rated or not.
Judge Martin said Annie in her cor
roboration of her visit had described
the interior arrangement of the jail,
but that against that there was the
denial made by Fiore and Mrs Fiore
that Annie had ever visited the jail.
Annie's testimony was that she had
visited the jail in company with her
aunt, Mrs. Fiore.