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Show Gillespie Jury Cannot Agree Have Been Out Forty-Eig-ht Hours, and Chance for Verdict Is Very Remote, RISING SUN, Ind., May 2S. Tho Jury in the Gillespie murder case, which has been out since early Friday morning, has not agreed and the chances for a verdict are very remote. The twelve men came Into court this morning and reported that they wero unable to agree, but Judgo Downey sent them back to the jury room to resume deliberations. At 10 o'clock tonight the Jury not having reached an agreement. Judge Downey sent them to their boardlng-houso. boardlng-houso. with Instructions to report at C o'clock tomorrow' morning. If no verdict ver-dict Is rendered by noon the jury will be discharged, it Is said. In case of a disagreement as to James Gillespie's guilt, the defense will bring habeas corpus to admit him to ball the same as the other three defendants. The GUlesples are among the best-to-do citizens of southeast Indiana. Tho tragedy and the subsequent arrest of James Gillespie, twin brother to tho murdered woman, charging him with the crime, is one of the great sensations sensa-tions of Hoosler history. Myron Barbour, who with his wife, Carrie, was held and tried as an acces- sory, Is a banker, and thoughout the trial treated tho affair in the lightest manner possible. It wan claimed that his feeling against the murdered woman was due to a charge made by her that James Gillespie was Intimate with his wife. It was held that Mrs. Barbour incited James Gillespie to kill his sister because It was believed the elder Mrs. Gillespie had arranged to deed to Miss Glllesplo her property. Miss Ellzaboth Glllesplo was shot whllo sitting at a window In her home. Her body was riddled with bullets. James Gillespie and tho Barbours lived across the street. They heard the shot, they claimed, and supposed the sound camo from a different direction. When, it was found Elizabeth had been murdered neither of tho defendants defend-ants showed any grief. James was suspected because It was known he had been on 111 terms with his sister. He attended the funeral, knowing he was believed to have fired the fatal shot, and was arrested immediately imme-diately afterward. Since hla arrest he has been a disagreeable dis-agreeable prisoner. Once he attempted to stone a photographer who tried to get a snap shot at him as the Sheriff was taking him from the courthouse to th jail. The case has been bitterly contested. Noted lawyero appeared on both sides. Doctor Thad A. Reamy, a Cincinnati millionaire, is on uncle to Mrs. Barbour and Is paying tor her defenw. He was constantly beside her during the trial. Prominent among the features of tho great case was that so far as Is known Jameo Gillespie Is the only person who has been charged with the murder of his twin. |