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Show STRAIN IN JURY MOM1 -S Bailiff Loses Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Pounds During Browne Case Chicago. June 28. One of the outward out-ward Indications of the strain under which everybody connected with the Lee O'Nell Browne bribery trial Is laboring Was shoftn In the appearance of Bailiff Whalen who has been In . personal charge of the Jury ever since It retired last Friday. The bailiff, who Is; not a corpulent man at best, has lost twenty-two pounds during his . eighty three hours of service. With j this loss of flesh to tho bailiff, who j Is experienced In criminal court methods, meth-ods, and Is accustomed to long waits. I it is believed that members of the Jury ' must have fared much worse. During the evening; nearly a dozen pitchers of Ice water were token Into the room, whether for drinking purposes pur-poses or to revive Jurors overcome under un-der the strain of the situation, the .bailiffs could not say. During the day the food allowed to the jurors was reduced to a marked mark-ed degree, Thig was not the result of an effort to starve them, however. The change was made because of tho fact that many of the Jurors, accustomed accus-tomed to active lives, had continued to eat their accustomed meals, with the result that they have all but collapsed col-lapsed under their imprisonment. Lack of exercise and fresh air Is supposed 1o have bon the chief trouble with the men 'who were sick. |