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Show AGREED ON THEIR VERDICT. Jurymen Had Made Up Their Minds, and So Affirmed. , At Fort Scott (Kan.) the other day a jury in the District court returned a verdict finding a certain accused person guilty of larceny. The verdict jhadv not been prepared in the technical tech-nical form desired and the Judge sent ft"6 Jury tack to make the necessary corrections. The Jury was gone for . . jhalf an hour, and when it returned it ,. ... jbrought in a verdict acquitting the ...... prisoner. But a verdict even more amusing was perpetrated by a Jury at Pittsburg. The case was a criminal .,one, and after a few minutes' consultation consul-tation the Jury filed into the box from Its room. "Have you agreed upon a -verdict?" asked the judge. "We have," , ; : responded th foreman, passing it over. "The clerk will read,'- said the Judge. And the clerk read, "We, your Jury, agree to disagree." |