Springville Herald | 1936-03-26 | Page 10 | [First Edition], Fifth Lamson Trial Possible

FIFTH LAMSON TRIAL POSSIBLE SAN JOSE, Cal., March 25 i;.E While David A. Larason waited dejectedly, petitions were circulated circu-lated in at least two Santa Clara county communities today demanding de-manding that the state abandon its three-year-old effort to convict the former Stanford Press salesman sales-man of slaying his wife. The petitions appeared in San Jose and Willow Glen, a suburb. They supplemented a campaign already instituted by one of San Jose's two daily newspapers for dismissing the charge filed a few hours after Allene Thorp Lamson was found dead in her bath on Memorial day, 1933. Lamson Disappointed It was difficult to say which was the more disappointed defense de-fense or prosecution when Lam-son's Lam-son's fourth trial jurors filed into the court room yesterday, reported re-ported themselves hopelessly deadlocked dead-locked after nearly 98 hours' deliberation de-liberation of the case and were dismissed by white-haired Superior Supe-rior Judge J. J. Trabucco. Lamson took the announcement stoically, but his eyes betrayed him, he appeared to shudder when Foreman Milton Raymond informed inform-ed Judge Trabucco that in each of 10 ballots the seven men and five women had voted 9 to 3 for conviction. District Attorney Fred Thomas will announce whether the state will ask a fifth trial at a court hearing April 3.