Show r om ahe OM F 0 06 A d I 1 0 1 eel 0 C 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 V 0 C 0 0 i HAT goes on behind the locked doors of the jury room ilow how to do twelve men sitting in judgment of evidence ota which rests tile the fate of a human being deport themselves lawyea and judges wt mt tell you because they are barred from jury service no one la supposed to know but the jurors themselves N aaion leaks out and in ma ny 1 casee eavesdroppers have over leard the entire proceedings in supposedly ceased jury rooms recently a jury was deciding the fate at af a murderer the citso caso had bad attracted national attention all through the night and on into the morning the jury cry remained out when the twelve men finally filed out of the stuffy room with alth their verd lit t they were amazed to seo see morning newspapers printed several hours earlier carrying news of 0 tile the verdict they were about to announce it wits was quilty and llie ille said gubity Gu lity 11 the only pirt part of the lie the I 1 pa papers pers I 1 locked lacked was penalty lar lat r revealed tile method by alij which newspapers thil had scooped the jury itself A reporter using a physicians stethoscope to a pipe connecting with it a keam radiator in thil th jury room had teen abi bie to overlie over lies fir r practically everything ery thing malj in the room above de cisi to tile the guilt of the defend mil ant had been arrived ut by the jury just ju st in hine to allow tile the r reporter to inform his before the presses ita I 1 ted rolling for the final edition in three more hirs the jury h had ad fixed the Pell penalty olty but the big news already was aa out tha secrecy that envelops tile the debates debate bates held within the frea frequently bently ald h dirty smoky spooky jury room k lius a told ll 11 aaion for almo almost a any don n says the new times just asat brought the decision in such ft t wel se what were the facts that tipped plied the scales in favor of a defend tally tw h hohall the lie world thought eulley rye wn judges them themselves selves vea are curious moat the 1 workings odthe of the jurys minds for r it l la q oj of many id like to hear those fellows deliberate once said a judge who had bad countless juries I 1 you can your lionor honor spoke up a wrt court we attendant jdant theres n crack in the ewall ivall where we often listen boeni to leni eni ill take you th tharo ere 11 somewhat incredulous teci Judge adt ebol fol W his guide tho crevice was falie faile 1 I placed ills his ibar ear to it laud nd voices issued forth ollai makes ea you believe that its not 1 you i who said bald so eo V rhe ih e judge judg well what does lie he klow 1 w about nebout it alie old fois dosall fo sall sil bl I think I 1 have head hea d enough enouf fh said n honor or aenlo removing ving ills car from the which by the wa way was ed UP op soon after OP oi how slim a thread the life of ft a aal anga only those hose know who lutye ml 41 around tile the table in the settled sealed camber boltl ber tile the slightest circumstance inky to save alive a man from or nr condemn mn him P prison yes and open even the chair alle weight of al lothe human beli beings existence rests heavily on tile tho shoulders of those who have it in their power to make or break it they grasp at any favoring evidence not long iong ago in a case tried in the criminal court of new york gomo men were accused of having thrown a waiter out of a hotel window the strongest witness for the plaintiff was n woman who testified that silo she had seen the act committed from her room window at a distance of about feet the jury had bad been out for hours they seemed hopelessly deadlocked half of the men were unwilling to believe that the woman could have seen so far the remainder were disposed to accept her testimony the dinner hour capie came and the controversy was temporarily brought to an end when the court attendants saw the I 1 guarded jurymen juryman return from their evening meal they sighed ex expecting pectin 9 nn all all night session the twelve returned to ilie jury room tile the night was hot and sultry like cared caged animals they paced back and forth snarling and flapping for they wanted to get home one man stepped to the open window for n breath of air briglia lights were ware jog in a printing establishment more than two iwo blocks pway away every movement booye ir ent of the typesetters was plainly visible here you fellows look I 1 ills companions crowded around him hila in less than half an hour tile the jury was of one mind any one fil familiar millar with juries and jury duty will tell you that with rare nire exceptions the men serving service in criminal benses are tremendously con scions of their responsibility there la is a n genuine effort to be fair to quote man who lias has served in both crima calm inal and civil cases the juror in a 0 criminal court feels the gravity of the situation not so however the ope one in a civil court in tile the civil case lita his human qu qualities enter into plu piny he be Is priori to be swayed by prejudice garding tho the serious seriousness ness with pe which the juror takes his ity when he Is called on to judge be tween aveen right and wrong the well known example can be cited of a dozen who went out to determine the guilt or innocence of a youth accused of grand larceny they hegan began to talk ane matter over before the guard had fairly closed and lock locked ed tile the door they weighed filat the lawyers lind had said they spoke of the cast in the defend alias eye they removed their coats hild and as their conversation became more heated their collars they puffed great clouds of blue smoke into the dense atmosphere after four hours they were were still talking lets take a vo vote tei at t I 1 last t spoke up tip 8 self constituted t lender no ons ona had bad thought of that before they were all novices at c criminal jury of them mothers son d duty uty every wrote gul guilty lity on the page that thi he be tore from ills his note book I 1 I 1 gentlemen of tile lie jury fall into certain the most fialua distinct types the one who in tho the if f them la is ing ng is called vernacular of the courtroom lie Is it very email e the deewe at home und tind in ill his s place or of person business no one listens to him it is 18 when lie he gets inside of a jury room that lie has his innings 8 decided that 1 I was tile the guy that case care he tells tella his wife when lie he goes goca home you should have heard nib me talk it over with the judge afterward I 1 said to him and he agreed with me some peewees even bring their heir wives to the courthouse so that ladles ladies can behold them as an they stride majestically into the box with the alt of a toreador who Is about to confront otil the bull then there la is the th eJary jury lawyer the man from the business world who in hla his college days took a cour course sein in law lie ile remembers just enough of black stone to be convinced that he knows more of the legal aspect of the trial than the lawyers and sets forth his him knowledge in a lengthy oration many a time it to Is the member with a prejudice who forms the stumbling block in tile the way of a peaceful settle ment perhaps hla his prejudice la Is religious ligi ous perhaps racial last but not least there la 14 the naturally stubborn man the bugbear olevery of every jury in civil suits one of th thu difficult problems that confront jurors la is the awarding of just compensation in personal injury cases here prejudices of all kinds enter any are tw th Q tricks the gentlemen of the jury play on one another in the tha settling bottling of these disputes on one occasion a woman sued a trucking company her injury was waa slight and was largely due to her own carelessness careless nese most of the jury felt eleven voted to give her the twelfth held out 1 for 1000 1 lets compromise spoke a man having initiative svery every one of us will write down the sum we think should be given her well total the figures and divide by twelve they agreed much to the surprise of 0 the twelfths twelfth roan man the answer was BOO 1 I dont believe it lifts occurred to him that I 1 put down zero the speaker later whispered to his companions justice and fair play are on the whole the rille nila of the game says a business man who has served on seven juries several times I 1 have heard it discussed how a large verdict could be rendered w with ith the probable chance that the court W would permit it to stand and not set it mide A well man wit who 0 depends on his health and strength to 0 make his living for himself and family which Is it the position of nine ou out t of ten jurors cannot measure in his own mind the amount of damages that would compensate for the loss of such health A k man wa was s run into by a motor car that wn daiv driven en without proper regard for the rights of pedestrians ile he was waa injured so that lie he could not do any hard bard labor that required him his feet the evidence to be oa seemed conclusive save as to the injury naturalized citizen one of I 1 lle he was a the jury the his own rac race e was on i asked this juror what he foreman thought wits fair under the circum and tile the juror anaw answered ered hla ells stances will want at least 2500 it 11 lawyer probably cost the man about 2000 lias has thus fur far for the loss of time and for if lie had fiad it IE cush cash ile could buy a little business on OB which he be and hla his wife could support themselves soi so I 1 should say a verdice of would be fair the jur awarded him |