Show l H MASON ABBOTT TRIED UNLAWFUL USE OF MAILS i 1 S I CHARGED Jury Unable to Agree After Being Out Several Hours Grand Central Motion Argued I The VnUed States court opened yesterday i yes-terday with Judge John A Rmer of Wyoming on the bench owing to the illness of Judge Marshall The case of the United States vs H j Mason Abbott for unlawful use of the I I United States malls In sending through the malls articles designed to prevent conception was the first case called 1 The Jury comprised Theodore Parley Alma Hardy J B Ingram J A Silver I I J G Mldgley T C Lewis Harrison Jenkins W S Barnes T W Sloan Henry Welsh 1 M 1 Deal and T S Watson Abbott was in partnership I with Lewis L Pratt In the manufacture of what they called Queencss suppositories supposi-tories said to be < compound of boracic acid and cocoa butter l is i charged I that they advertised apd sold her he-r through the mails Pratt was arrested and pleaded guilty to the charge In JS98 He Ava r sentenced to pay a line of ViOO The Incases I jCor the prosecution yesterday were United Stales Commissioner D If Twomey boforo whom Abbots preliminary examination ex-amination WLS held and Gcorgo H Sutton Sut-ton formerly pnstoftlcc Inspector for the district of Uluh Sutton suspected that Abbott was using the malls to deliver de-liver his preparation and ordered some of the stuff from Ogdcn under the name of Mrs Ole Owen The preparation prepara-tion was delivered to him by mall The witnesses for the defense were Abbot and PratL They testified that the preparation was designed for the icllef of certain female ailments Pmt said that ho filled the order sent to Mr Sutton alias Mrs Owen and thai Abbott Ab-bott hud nothing to do with It Abbotts testimony was along time same line In his charge lo the jury Judge Klner all the fact that one partner had nothing to do with the filling of the order when both were engaged in the manufacturing of such an article did not relieve him of guilt The Jury re llred at 130 They failed to reach a verdict at 11 30 and were then laken to the Kenyon for the night with instructions in-structions to report at the courtroom at 8 oclock this morning If an agreement agree-ment is reached The prosecution was represented by United SUites Attorney WhSttemoro awl Assistant Attorney Cherrlngton while A V Taylor appeared for the defense |