Arizona republican., 1916-04-30
HAMMER JURY
 DEADL0CKED.
After Nine Hours Discus sion of Case, Jury Locked Up Until This Morning.; "Lovc Stuff Features Hearing

At I1:30 o'clock last night the jury in the case of Kate Hammer charged with raising a check signed by Guy Morgan from s2 to $2,OOO, was locked up for the night Taking the case during the afternoon the jury delib- eratcd for nine hours and was unable to reach a verdict.
 The afternoon session was occupied with hearing the final session and with summing up by the attorneys.
 Mrs. Ruby Nenable, who occupied the little house in the rear of Kate Hammers home, 21S East Van Buren street, on the witness stand yesterday told how tn woman charged with raising a check from S2 to $2.000 had come to her and said she had little scheme whereby she would get money from Morgan to pay her debts and have a vacation. She testi- fled that Mrs Hammer had brought the check to her to inspect after she had raised it, and Mrs. Nenable had said. it doesn't look good to me- She had drawn Mrs. Hammers attention to the line drawn from the two and the somewhat heavier lettering and stated Mrs Hammer took the check and when she saw it again the day il was cashed it looked better.
 Why did you not notify the bank or the sheriff or the county attorney? asked F. C. Stuckmeyer attorney for the defense.
 "I didn't want to get mixed up in it." said the witness. who showed plainly how she shrank from appear ing as a witness.
 There was no shrinking on the part of Kate Hammer when she took the stand and frankly told of alleged love scenes that most women would hesi- tate to reveal. Her recital called for the county attorneys Were you just as energetic in the love- making as he?" and her cool reply. Yes" Then she went into the "prelimnaries" of the signing of the check. Mrs. Ham, mer testified that she wrote the date on the National Bank of Arizona check at the table and then she went over to the davenport where Guy F. Morgan sat She kissed him. she said, and by the time the love making was over, the ink was dry on the pen and she had to return for more ink before he signed the check. The details oi another love scene were gone into be- fore the check was finally signed by
 Morgan who wrote his name to il with the check on his knees, as Mrs
 Hammer said she filled in the two thousand dollars on her knee as sine
 sat by his side. Mrs Hammer stated that after her sweetheart" left shC
 had shown the check to her sister and
 brother-in- Jaw, MT. and Mrs. Jacl
 Walker, and the members of the fam
 fly testified to the same effect. eXcep
 that Mrs. Walker said the sum O
 g. 900 had never been mentioned, jus
 as her sister said that the amount O !. S2 900 had not been talked about he
 tween herself and Morgan. nor hat \ they had any dispute relative to | loan on mortgage MT. Walker | however, had said when he had bee
 shown the check, according to hi own testimony, Well, he's given yo the s2.00 check"
 All this and much more was re viewed in the opening argument pre-
 scented by Assistant County Attorne Leon $. Jacobs. He touched upon tn loan on the property which had falle through because Morgan refused { give up s2,O00 unsecured by mort gage. He stated that Mrs Hamme
 had placed the money in q safety de : posit box at the Valley Bank and ha
 not aken 1t to the Phoenix Nation5 U Bank. where she was in the habit ( % doing her business. The star witnes in the case is the check" said NJ II Jacobs,
 '' Mir. Struckmeyer. for the defens v said he did not ask for special favor 1' because she was a woman. and the '' he proceeded to use that greatest - all arguments to q jury-woman. Il . gave q resume of her testimony an that of her relatives and declared tha : if she were found guilty the jur ~ would stamp her sister and brother ', in-law perjurers.
 The sole defense has been we '' man declared MT. Candy in h ' closing argument Whens she dc ' clared she was making love to Mol U gan, Kate Hammer was shooting wid VI of the mark" said the state. She wa u making love to Morgans bank at l. count" He compared the defendal
 to one of the sirens in Homer
 "Odessy.''