Show WILL SPEND CHRISTMAS IN THE TOMBS PRISON ij new york dec 23 fainting in her fathers arms her frame with the accumulated buffering ot months ot anxious waiting nan patterson today heard the announcement that the jury men trying her had disagreed soon she was revived and sobbing hysteric i cally and hardly able to walk was halt 1 led half carried back to her cell in the 1 l tombs her vision of a christmas at home so bright the past few days was gone before the uncertainty as to what the next step in her case might be before her trial the district attorney offered to accept bail in 20 but this could not be raised and the prosecuting officers declined to indicate today what their attitude on this point would be district attorney jerome said ho had nothing whatever to say at present as to whether he would agree to a lower bail or whether he would accept bail at all the jury stood eix tor acquittal and six for conviction but so far as can be learned there was no juryman in favor of a first degree verdict the keenest disappointment was felt in the court room and in the great crowd outside when the disagreement was announced not since the case has there been so much in terest taken in a criminal trial in this 4 city new york dec 23 even in the face I 1 certain knowledge that news of tho result of the jurys deliberations would jl not be forthcoming until after 10 egl today scores of people remain ed all night around the criminal court m building hoping to be the first to hear H the verdict in the case of nan patter w son driven from the building just be tai foie midnight when the jury was lock of cd up for the night the curious crowd djs 1 gathered in little knots in sheltered places in the vicinity to wait and spec i and ensure for themselves an ad j position in alio llio line when tho doors were again opened today kven when the dim light that camo through windows of the jury room ini fe i the jurors had given up their r tle and were at tempting to sleep rumors from inside elbs tho building found their way to tho patient waiters the source of these rumors no one knew and little faith was placed in their truthfulness in the early night mysterious information had it that the jury stood farm on the side of nine for acquittal one tor conviction of murder in the second degree and two unable to agree upon the lagree of manslaughter of which they believed tho prisoner guilty i before daylight however there had been a decided change in the sentiment of the jury according to report at that time a story which gained consid erit ble circulation li a d eleven furors favoring acquittal and one holding out for conviction of murder in afie first degree the first sign of life in the big building came just before daybreak when a bright light flickered up in the window ot the jury room scarcely moro than a dozen feet away from the court house end of the bridge of sighs A little later the officers who had been on guard all night came out one by one for breakfast and a little after 7 ehg jurors guarded by court officers 1 marched out to a nearby restaurant for their morning meal As they came through franklin street the jurors met a crowd of not less than two hunted persons including the self ap pointe 1 guard who had remained on duty all night if the crowd had expected to learn anything aiom the faces of the jurors they were disappointed for there was nothing in their expression save weariness it was learned that the room in which the night was spent was entirely without furniture with alie exception of a table and a dozen amah wooden chairs whatever rest the jurors got therefore was obtained under far from ideal conditions they suffered from cold during the night too the officers said and the engineer was roused in the early morning hours with a request for more steam after the hardest dav of her life a day which opened with the brightest hope and ended in darkest les patr kanj patterson retired to her cot in the tombs half an hour after midnight it has been from the little pen over the jury room where she spent the long hours of waiting yesterday and last evening that she vas on the verge of nervous prostration and that even her aged father who had been constantly at her side through all her trouble was unable to calm her according to the matron of the tombs however the girl haj hardly touched her cot in the cell before she was asleep her sleep was troubled and she awoke many times during the night but on the whole got a much better nights rest than might have been expected 1 I dont see how she does it said the matron she has the most wonderful nerve of any woman I 1 ever knew this morning miss patterson asked or news from the jury she became an answer and the tomb warden went to see her he assured her that there was no news and that slie could not possibly icar anything until it was announced in court instead of assuring lier this news made her worse she had a severe shock of hysteria how can I 1 ever face those dreadful twelve men again alie warden said she repeatedly cried the tear of going back 0 the court overshadowing everything else dr levin alie tombs physician was sent for in a hur prescribed for about this time her father ar livid at the tombs owing to her state of collapse he was allowed to go up to sec her with his presence and the efforts of the physician she improved con As soon as she was somewhat composed adf was led across the bridge of sighs to the caim inal court building she was taken to the pen to wait until a verdict had been reached or some i conclusion arrived at william ryan a policeman on guard fit the to the jury room faint ed today and was sent to his station hou in a patrol he had been doing extra anty and this with the excitement cit ement of the trial was too much for him during the forenoon the crowd around the cour house increased until the streets were blocked 1 and the corridors within the building were so admed that no less than h alf a dozen times police reserves were forced to clear out the building at 1030 the hour which had been sst for the opening of t court word came by telephone that justice davis was delayed and that ho would not reach the court house until 1130 in the meantime the police stationed about the court corridors had serious difficulty holding in check the crowds clan loring for admission at 11 SO john randolph patterson the prisoners father camoin and took a seat at counsels table no word had come from justice davis to that time A moment later the jurors their faces showing deep lines as a result of their all night vigil filed solemnly n and took their places behind the ail miss patterson had not reached he court up to that time but as the |