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Show II Mitt VERDE; ! The Jury After Loner and Te,lior.s IVlib-, eration Fronour.w it Voluntary M.:ns!iiUer. SCII.E3 DUEIN3 TEE LAST ACT. i The Final Oaapter in a C.w That lias j Loo All O'htrs iti Praisalic , Interest. Tho spectacle that erected tho visitor to the district conn room this morning was oppressively weird. The light that Imrstcd through the window panes mantled everything in ghostly pallor. The rotracted absence of the jury ami speculation as to the verdict upon vv hieh they would agree, if they had in t agreed to disagree, had intensified popular interest in-terest in the result. They had been out lor nearly twelve hours ami the tax on the. bailiff's (.(institution w as making its effects apparent. They both remained at the portals of tho chamber in which fate was weaving its doubtful web, however, and now ami (her; rose to answer some l ap from the interior. The prisoner sat silent ami nervous in the marshal's oll'ico, and w as still attended by his venerable sire ami his brother Harry, To them he occasionally occa-sionally addressed some remark hearing hear-ing on the contents of a news-no news-no per. They hud little interest inter-est in news -literature :it this hour, however. The jury room in which a life w as upon tho balance absorbed ab-sorbed their entire wits. Aboo the shoulder of the defendant as he hat In the marshal's chamber w as a bird cage, its yellow occupant whistling, iu shrill contempt for the solemnity of the occasion. occa-sion. No authentic word had yet reached the loungers w ho alternated between tho court room and hallways. hall-ways. Young Kellcy was equally anxious to learn something, but the "stillness gave no token." Young Kellcy, the son of deceased, who had sal through the trial as the avenging spirit, was calmly waiting ro-i ro-i turns from the jury room, and haunted the jury room from early morning. Hi mother was not upon the scene that had taxed her nerves beyond control, and who fouud it impossible to hold tho gales against the xtorm of viiidietivencss that had blown uj) during the argument. Condon who had invoked the flaming, blue-streaked blue-streaked wrath of counsel for tho do-fensu do-fensu did not seek contentment In the court room but was conspicuious by an unbroken absence. Eleven o'clock came. The jury had now been out twelve hours ami it was evident that they were clashed in a dead lock. Bailiff Bail-iff Parsons w-ho had (imply snatched a chunk of sleep when an alternate buililT relieved him began to show his fatigue and vainly appealed to the columns of a morning paper for something sulllel-ently sulllel-ently thrilling to keep the faltering eyelids eye-lids above timber line. THK VKItOH T. It was at 1:20 this afternoon when the rumpled locks of Foreman Crow were thrust from the door of the jury room and he said: "You may inform the judge when he comes that wo have agreed on a verdict." The suspense that had grown so dense throughout the building had finally fin-ally broken, and the fact soon spread through the hallways and el i- hers. Tho news was unfolded to the prisoner by a TlMhs reporter. re-porter. He received il without visible emotion only remarking that h "preferred almost anything to a dis- mrr nent." Judge Powers and the father of defendant, grave and concerned, con-cerned, were the first to report, followed fol-lowed by Judge Dickson, ami then Mr. Critchlo'vv for tho 'prosecution. A moment mo-ment later the jury, In charge of Bailiffs Parsons and Spruge, tiled with tirm tread into the chamber and were polled. An immense crowd ha I colli eted in the meantime, and stood wailing for the decree of fate. 'There was but a moment more, however, how-ever, when Foreman Crow stepped forward for-ward and submitted the following ver diet: We the Jury flnl the rt'cela'if. Charles Wjr-limn, Wjr-limn, iruilty ! voluntary n.;in-i!.uiKt'-r. Judge Powers We woeid liketo have the jury polled in order to determine whether the verdict is "voluntary" or "involuntary" manslaughter. 'I he jury was polled and were iinani- nious in reaffirming the verdict. For the lii st time the prisoner yielded to the grim embarrassment of hi position, po-sition, and hung his head in iimittered despair. WVMAM I HKNTt.XI KM. 4:00 p. m Wymaii has just received senteuce ' one year in the penitentiary |