The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-07-24

One of the jurymen gave an account
Of the proceedings In the jury room
while a verdict was being considered.
Of which the following is a synopsis:
ION reaching the jury room w ar
ranged ourselves In q circle. men and
women being placed alternately. and
proceeded to consider the case. At first
there were remarks from men and wo
men alike. but gradually the men drop.
ped out Of the discussion. leaving it to
the women, Two women considered
%Iddleston's offer binding on him: two
women considered that be was absolv,
ed by Miss Fleming's being engaged to
another man. while the other two jury
women took the ground that Mr.. Iddle-
ston had been treated very badly BY
the plaintiff. .4s
1.-The discussion on the part of the
jurywomen lasted 80 long that some
Of Us began to yawn. First one WON
an. then another dropped out Of 1t IN
til but q woman remained to combat
for her opinion. Then one Of the wo-
men asked another II she had seen the
new skirt. This switched the coDver.
sat1on on to another track than the
ase In question. and in q few minutes
the women were debating the fashions
Seeing an opportunity. we men began
to consider the breach Of promise case.
We discovered that we all agreed that
the woman. having been engaged to
another during the time she was 10
gaged to Iddleeton. had 10 claim.
I'VE announced to fellow jury
women that bali Of the jury were
agreed on q verdict. requesting the
other half to follow our example. They
at once turned their attention to the
matter In point but az there were
three different opinions among them
and each woman stoutly maintained
her own view time passed without q
verdict At q O'Clock in the evening
supper was brought In, and after that.
since the women could not agree and
were tired Of the subject we paired
OF. each man With q woman. and sat
flirting till 10 O'Clock. when We were
marched OF to separate hotels for the
night.
The next day q messenger went
from % with q note to the judge, who.
supp0sing It to contain q question of
law. called the court together. aia
honor was much astonished at a e
quest for q clergyman. Since there
was no reason for denying the request
q dominic was sent to Us. and two OF
our number YER married
There IL something contagious about
matrimony. and as the parson wa
leaving he was called back to marry
another couple. That afternoon one
Of the men who had been making up
to another Of the jurywomen pro.
posed that we make 1t unanimous and
all be married. This was rushing mat
ters, and the only woman left IN,
pledged declined to take the only re-
naming unpledged nan While we
were trying to persuade her the Judge
sent to know II we had reached q ver.
dict The foreman sent back word
that we had a case Of an obstinate
twelfth jurywoman. but we hoped
soon to bring her to an agreement.
"Half an hour later we all fled into
the courtroom and were asked the
usual question:
"'Have you agreed to a verdictT
1--WE have agreed to something else.
replied our foreman.
What do you mean?' asked the
Judge, surprised.
"'Fonr Of u twelve have been mar
r1ed In the Jury room. and we have
agreed to make It unanimous. the rest
to be married here by your honor In
court
"'But the verdict In the ease that
has been tried before yonr exclaimed
the astonished judge Were yon On.
able to hiring thu Olmttnat. jnrywv,
man to AN agreement
I've brought ner t. IN agreement
yoor hOnOr. To marry ln+ eleventh
jurymAl.
.ACaae dismssasd aaid the iudcs-