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Show jut in racy CASE FAILS TO REACH AGREEMENT After deliberating several hours, the jury in the case of tho city against W. Tracy, which was tried in Judge J. A. Howell's division of the district court yesterday, disagreed and were discharged. dis-charged. The disagreement was reported re-ported at 12 o'clock last night. In the proceedings the city sought to prove tho charge that the defendant defend-ant had a bottle of chloral hydrate in his possession on July 25, tho date of his arrest on a charge of disturbing the peace. Possession of the chemical, it was stated, constituted the offense. The charge of disturbing the peace was the outgrowth of an allogcd as. sault on a person whom the police did not find. Tracy, after his arrest by W. E. Moore of the local police department, attempted, it is alleged, to dispose of the bottle, but was prevented from so doing by the officer who caught him In the act Moore with other members of the police department wero witnesses wit-nesses introduced by the state. The defense ondeavored to prove that the case of the Btato was a "frame up." no |