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Show HOLMES NOT CONVICTED Jury Disagrees After Trial of Government Govern-ment Statistician. WASHINGTON. July 3 After being out for almost iwenty-slx hours, the jury In the case of former Associate Statistician B. S. Holmes, Jr.. of the department of agriculture, on the charge of conspiring to defraud the government by giving out the department's crop Information, In-formation, was today at 4:15 p. m. discharged dis-charged from further consideration of the case. The jury was summoned to Ihe criminal courtroom at that hour by Judge. Stafford, who after ascertaining that" they had been unable lo reach an agreement dismissed them. Earlier In the dav the jury had made a visit to tho courtroom In quest of further instructions on the subject of conspiracy. |