New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
NEW HAVEN JURY
 STILL UNDECIDED
Possibility Of Absolute Deadlock
 Discussed By Counsels
HAVE MEMORY REFRESHED"
Men Had Been Out for Tuentv-for Hours When Brought Into Omen
 rC to Hear Reading of Parts of Aestlmony--Also Ask for Exhihits


 New York, Jan. S.-The fate of inc eleVen former directors of the New York, New Haven and Har+fora Dol, tt1 Deu, accused of criminal violation of -o sherman antitrust law, still hune
 ehe oa1ance today. The jury at .:oo clock had been out twenty-four
 u,s wltnout reaching a verdict, and Iilhe were listening to the reading of certain parts of the testi- mony in open court
 Doubt was expressed bv co,1nse, that they would reach an aereeuen+ II at all, before night. The testimony mad to do with the operations of the Joy Steamship Line, which the New riaVen IS alleged to have bought in oFoer to suppress it's competition. The request to have their memory re- 1reshed on the testimony was made apout an hour after the jurors re- assembled today to renew their de- liberation of Wm. Rockefeller. one or the defendants in negotiations. as the result of which, according to testimony in the case, the Joy Line was prevented from puchasing two steamboats from the Florida East Coast Railway company.
 Whether the jury had reached a deadlock, or had not yet satisfied themselves as to the bearing of the testimony on the numerous phases of the case, was the subject of much speculation among counsel.
 Deliberations Resumed.
 The jury arrived at the federal building shortly after 10 o'clock and resumed it's deliberations The de- fendants, with the exception of Wm Rockefeller, who was still i'll, were no hand early. Many rumors were in circulation to account for the delay
 Shortly before II o'clock the jury sent for additional exhibits Several of them related to the participation of Vim. Rockefeller in the alleged con- spiracy, being correspondence be- tween him and Henry M. Flagler of the Florida East Coast railway in re- gard to the sale of steamships to the Joy Steamship, Line, while it was a competition of the New Haven. Ac- cording to the testimony in the case John M. Hall, while president of the asking him to use his influence with Flagler to prevent the sale of two of the boats owned by the Florida East Coast company to the steamship line, and Rockefeller forwarded Halls let ter to Flagler. The foreman of the jury, however, in making his request, erroneously referred to the letter as having been written by Charles s. Mellen to Rockefeller. There being no such letter, the clerk of the court declined to comply with the request without the consent of the court. Judge Hunt was accordingly sent for.
 The jury also asked for the testi- mony of Frank M. Dunbaugh, presi- dent of the Joy Line, and for a copy of the United States supreme court de- cision in the northern Securities case, which was in evidence.
 Summoned to Court Room.
 Judge Hunt after a conference of counsel, ordered the Hall letter to be given to the jury, but summoned the jurors to the court room to hear the Dunbaugh testimony. They filed in and listened with close interest while the testimony was read by Frank w Swacker, of counsel for the govern ment.
 The testimony had to do with com petitive conditions that existed be- tween the Joy Line and the New Ha- ven before the railroad acquired it and dealt with the negotiations be- tween Dunbaugh and Mellen for it's sale.
 The record of Dunbaughs cross ex animation was read by John G. Mill burn of counsel for the defense. The reading of the testimony was concluded at o'clock and the jury retired to it's room for lunch and to