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Show v o o o o & . & o I BURCH JURY TEN TO TWO FOR CONVICTION FATE STILL IN i DOUBT AFTER MANYJOURS Ten Women and Two Men on Jury Out Since Four Yesterday BURCH IS HOPEFUL, I Judge Instructs Twelve on Ho to Handle Insanity Question LOS ANGELES. Calif.. Jan. 14 The jury of ten women and two r.en resumed deliberations today In the easel of Arthur C. Bnrch of Evanston. III.. I charged with .'.he nfut'dcr of J Bolton ; Kennedy, a brok&r. Indications were I I that tho jury was no nearer an agreement agree-ment than at aJ i ui c . lent last night "after four and a hid hours balloting I J for one of the women jurors sent a message to her husband requesting I ih.t he cancel a.t .n?rigment that had I been made for hor tonight. The Jury, composed of ten women and two men. went out at 3 57 p. in. j yesterday and was in the Jury room I until 10:15 p. m. with the exception1 of an hour and a half taken for din-! ' ner. Shortly before len o'clock Judge I Sidney N. Reeve directed It oe taken to I ' hotel for tho night and after! Burch had been brought to tho count room while hl counsel agreed to thM arrangement, the twelve were taken j to their quarters In a motor bus. Rumors about the hall ot Justice1 i were that the Jury .stood ten lo .'.wo. i with the majority adverse to the defendant. de-fendant. BURCH sMli.i - Burch smiled as th" ten women and; two men tiled out of the courtroom.' He often had said he hoped hl fate j would be put in cb, hand- of ten jurors Ion a Friday, the thirteenth day of tho I month. The case went to trial eight weeks! ago. Burch seemed In high good humor as he was led away to jail. Me ex-I ex-I pressed confidence that ho would be found nr. guilt . ' Judge Sidney N; Reeve's Instruction) to the Jury occupied half an hour and i included, besides definition? of first,! and second decree murdei, the slate-1 ment that for the Jury lo determine that Burch was inasne it would have, i to find that he did not understand the nature of the act alleged to have been committed in the slaying of Kennedy. Ken-nedy. REFUSES TO OOMM1 v i Mrs. Belle Harris the thirteenth, or alternate Juror, was excused at thj con-I con-I elusion of the arguments, Sh declined de-clined 'o discuss the evidence, saying that she was not called upon to render I u verdict and had none lo give. Both today's sessions of co.irt were given over, in the main, to arguments! i by the ditrli attorney, who called Burch a "miserable, coacflly llt,tl as- IsaSSln," operating In a "foul conspir-1 acy." He called Mrs. Madalynne ob- I enchain, indicted jointly w ith Burch and who Is In Jail awaiting trial, the I'Mivh conspirator" in a plot whereby Kennedy was slain. |