| Show SIX fO ± CONVICTiON I 1 Brigham i Roberts Had aVery a-Very Close Shave WILL BE TRIED AGAIN After Being Out Over Seventeen I Hours tho Jurors Returned Into Court Yesterday Morning and Notified Judfjo Norrell that They Could Not AgreeJudge Expressed Regret and Discharged Them Stood Four to Four Nearly AU NightJury Disliked Method IJ I After deliberating for over seventeen hours the jurors in the unlawful cohabitation co-habitation case against D II Roberts returned into court yesterday mornIng morn-Ing and Informed Judge Norrell that they were unable to agree upon a verdict ver-dict They were discharged The jury when discharged stood six for conviction and two for acquittal Almost from tho start the Jurors divided di-vided equally four being for conviction convic-tion and four for acquittal and remained re-mained so nearly all night Samuel Allen Jr who voted for acquittal was the llrst to change which made the ballot live for conviction and thre6 for I acquittal Then those for conviction were joined by John H Thorn and I that was the status maintained till J the end I I nov THE JURORS STOOD J I Tho two who stood for an acquittal I at the close were William Hart Jr j I and John F Edwards and those for I conviction were Joseph Knight foreman I fore-man Robert Graham CoHn 33 Stokes I I John II Thorn John Spencer and Samuel Sam-uel Allen Jr I When court convened at 10 oclock I yesterday morning It was announced r that the Jury had not agreed and other oth-er business was proceeded with At 1 3040 Judge Norrell sent for the Jurors I and after hearing the statement of tho foreman that there was no likelihood I of their arriving at a verdict the court 1 discharged them after expressing regrets re-grets at their failure to find a ver dict DIDNT LIKE METhOD PURSUED Tho mode of submitting the case on an agreed statement of what witnesses witness-es would testify to If called it Is I said was not liked by the Jurors and they would have much preferred to have had the case tried in the ordinary I ordi-nary way by witnesses being put on I thu Itl 1 n I l 1 i 11 oiiiiiii uuu LAUII1 IIICU i 11 HI U1OSS examined It IB an unheardof mode of procedure pro-cedure said a prominent attorney yesterday for a defendant to be tried on an agreed statement submitted to a jury and not approved by lawyers County Attorney Putnam says that Roberts will be tried again during the present term of court The Graham unlawful cohabitation case Is also scheduled to come up at this term |
