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Show JURY MASIISMREBB'IHE TEIit 'OF NM PATTERSON; Af IOfflEY: jEHOME' : .SAYS TIECASB f ILL PtOBABK" MOP Some of the Twelve Not Sus-, Sus-, ceptible to Argument; Big Crowd Remains Up All Night to Hear Verdict. - BULLETIN. NEW YORK, Dec 23. The Patterson jury has disagreed. BULLETIN. NEW YOKK, Dec. 23. Judge Da via arrived at the Criminal court building Just before 11:30. He immediately Bent an officer of the court to summon the Patterson jury to the courtroom. The jury reported to the Judge that they were unable to agTee upon a verdict. The Judge then sent them back for further deliberation. District Attorney Jerome said today: ' "in the event of a disagreement I shal make an investigation of how the jury stands. If the overwhelmin g view of the Jury is for acquittal, there is a possibility that she will never be tried again." -The foreman of the jury told Judge Davis that he did not think the jury would be able to reach a verdict, and that he complained that several of his associates were not susceptible to argument. The Judge told them to reach a verdict if they could do so conscientiously. The jury then retired. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Even in the face of certain knowledge that news of the result of the Jury's deliberations - would not be forthcoming until after 10 o'clock- today, scores of people remained all night around the Criminal court building hoping to be the first to hear the verdict in the case of Nan Patterson. Patter-son. Gather in Sheltered Places. k Driven from the building Just before ; J midnight, when the Jury was locked up - for the night, by order of Justice Davis, Da-vis, the curious crowd gathered In little knots In sheltered places In the vicinity to wait and speculate and insure for themselves an advantageous position In the line when the doors were again " opened lay. iiven when the dim light that came through windows of the Jury-room Jury-room Indicated that the Jurors had given up their arguments for the night . and were attempting to sleep, rumors from" inside the building found their way to the patient waiters. The source of these rumors no one knew, and little - faith was placed in their truthfulness. Bumors About Jury. In the early" night mysterious Information Infor-mation had It that the Jury stood firm on the basis of nine for acquittal, one for conviction of murder in the second degree and two unabre to agree upon -' the degree of manslaughter, of which they believed the prisoner guilty. Be-' Be-' fore daylight, however, there had been a decided change In the sentiment of the Jury, according to a report. At that iLtlme a story which gained considerable circulation had eleven Jurors favoring acquittal and one holding out for conviction con-viction of murder In the first degree. Of course, there was absolutely nothing to ' substantiate these rumors, but every bit ) of gossip was anxiously seized upon by j those who had waited so long. . Jurors Go to Breakfast The first sign of life In the big court i building came Just before daybreak, ! when a bright light flickered up In the Window of the Jury-room scarcely more than a -dozen feet away from the court-! court-! houfe end of the bridge of sighs. A lit-! lit-! tie later the officers who had been on ! guard In the building all night came out J one by one for breakfast, and a little f after 7 o'clock the Jurors, guarded by ' court officers, marched out to a near-! near-! by restaurant for their morning meal. :, As they came through the Franklin I street exit the Jurors met a crowd of not ' less than 200 persons, including the self-I self-I appointed guard who had remained on I duty all night. ! If the crowd had expected to learn , anything from the faces of the Jurors they were disappointed, for there was '. nothing in their expression save wearl-, wearl-, ' ness. It was learned that the room in -which the long night was spent was en-I en-I tirely without furniture with the excep- tion of a table and a dosen small wood- ' en chairs. Whatever rest the Jurors got, therefore, was obtained under far from . ideal conditions. They suffered some-: some-: -what from cold during the night, too, the officers' said, and the engineer was roused in the early morning hours with " a request for more steam. , , Girl's Sleep Troubled. i After the hardest day of her life, a : day whlcrT-opened with the brightest hope and ended In darkest despair. Nan Patterson retired to her cot In the ; Tombs half an hour after midnight. It - had been reported from the little "pen" ; over the Jury-room where she spent the . ; Jong hours of waiting yesterday and last ' evening that she was on the verge of nervous collapse, and that even her aged father, who had been constantly at i her side through all her trouble, was unable to calm her. According to the matron -of the Tombs, however, the girl ' had hardly touched her cot In the cell "l ,' -before she was asleep. Her sleep wa -4 j troubled, and she awoke many times . during the night, but on the whole got ' a much better nisht's- rest than might have been expected under the clrcum-' clrcum-' stances. j "I don't see how the does It," said j the matron. ' She baa the most won derful nerve of any woman I ever knew." Actress Has Hysterics, This morning Miss Patterson asked for news from the Jury, She became hysterical while awaitlnr an answer, and the Tombs warden went to see her. He assured her that there was no news, and that she could not possibly hear anything until It was announced In the courtroom before her. Instead of assuring her, this news made her worse. She had a severe attack at-tack of hysteria. .v - "How cao I rver-f acf tnowdreadful twelve men again?" the warden said she repeatedly cried, the fear of going back to the court overshadowing eyery-thlng eyery-thlng else. Improves in Short Time. Dr. Levin, the Tombs physician. Was sent for In a hurry and prescribed for her. About this time her father arrived ar-rived at the Tombs. Owing to her state of collapse, he was allowed to go up to see her. With his presence and the efforts ef-forts of the physician she Improved considerably in a short time. As soon as she was somewhat composed she was led across the "Bridge of Sighs" io the Criminal court building. She was taken to the "pen" to wait until a verdict ver-dict had been reached or some conclusion conclu-sion had been arrived at. Policeman Faints Away. William Ryan, a policeman on guard at the entrance to the Juryroom, fainted today an3 was sent to his station house in a patrol wagon. He had been doing extra duty, and this, with the excitement excite-ment of the trial, was too much for him. Police Disperse CroWds. During the forenoon the crowd around the courthouse increased until the streets were blocked and the corridors cor-ridors within the . building were so Jammed tht no less than half a dozen times police reserves were forced to clear out the building. Justice Davis Is Delayed. At 10:30, the hour which had been set for the opening of court, word came by i telephone that Justice Davis was delayed de-layed and that he would not reach the oourthouse until 11:30. In the meantime mean-time the police stationed about the courthouse corridors had serious difficulties diffi-culties In holding in check the crowds clamoring for admission. The court's order that spectators be rigidly excluded ex-cluded from the courtroom was carried out almost to the letter. Half a hundred hun-dred persons occupied seats In the courtroom. Among, them were only three women. Promptly at 11:30 John Randolph Patterson, the prisoner's father, fa-ther, came In and took a seat at the counsel's table. Jurors Look Worn. No word had been received from Justice Jus-tice Davis to that time, however, and there followed another wait of ten minutes min-utes before a stir Indicated that the court was about to resume its session. A moment later the Jurors, their faces showing deep lines as a result of their all-night vigil, filed solemnly in and took their places behind the rail. Miss Patterson had not reached the courtroom court-room up to that time, but as the Jurors marched down the aisle her father, half turning in his chair, gazed Intently up-I up-I on their faces. As he turned back an fumbled nervously a paper which lay upon the table his hands shook as if with palsy, and It seemed apparent that he saw little to arouse hope In the faces of the Jurors. Kisses Her Father. A moment later Nan Patterson, gowned entirely In black, and with a heavy veil concealing her features, walked with a firm, strong step to the chair beside her father. As she sat down she placed one arm across her father's fa-ther's shoulder. With the other she raised her veil and kissed the old man In a very pretty, affectionate way. Of the two the father showed In a far greater degree the strain under which they had been for many hours, and for a time the girl turned comforter. There was scarcely a moment's delay when the usual question .was put to ths Jurors. The fpreman replied that no decision had been reached. Justice Davis Da-vis said that under almost any other circumstances he would discharge the Jury at that point, without further delay, de-lay, but this case he considered one of great importance. Girl Breaks Down. When the Jury came in at 12:50 Miss Patterson became very nervous. The color of her face seemed to deepen, If that were possible, and her whole attitude atti-tude showed that she was undergoing keen suffering. When the Jury reported their disagreement and the Justice discharged dis-charged them she turned to her father and threw herself on his shoulders, weeping bitterly. Up to the last she had hoped to be free In time to go home to Washington to spend Christmas with her mother, and the disagreement was a most poignant disappointment to her. The old man tried to comfort her, but she fell fainting In his arms. - The girl was revived from her fainting faint-ing spell, but continued to sob hysterically. hysteri-cally. Justice Davis thanked the Jury and remanded Miss Patterson to the Tombs. She was led out sobbing violently vio-lently and in a state of severe nervous collapse. Six for Conviction. After the rest of the Jury had left the courtroom the foreman remained and had a consultation with Justice Davis. The foreman said that only one ballot was taken, standing six for acquittal and six for conviction. It was then found there was such a vast difference of opinion that the remainder of the time was taken up in argument. It was reported that the six votes for conviction stood as follows: One for murder In the second degree, two for manslaughter In the first degree and three for manslaughter In the second degree. It' Is said there was no vote for murder In the first degree. Prosecuting Attorney Rand would not say what ths further course in tha prosecution .would b |