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...Word to the Foreman. Then Murphy took up the defense's explanation of where the Hiss typewriter was at the time the confidential documents were typed...
...reminded the jury of Pat Catlett's testimony that he had taken the Hiss typewriter to one of two Woodstock repair shops soon after the Hisses gave it to him-but one shop had not opened until May 1938, the other not until September 1938. "Those are facts you cannot change," said big Tom Murphy...
James, an executive of the General Motors Acceptance Corp., and the jury's foreman. Murphy had received a report from the FBI that James had admitted prejudice in favor of Hiss. "You are all individual jurors," Murphy said pointedly. "The foreman . . . has no authority other than to announce the verdict." Murphy talked directly to James: "Assuming that you told your wife, Mr. Foreman, or anyone else, that you thought so-and-so was lying, today I ask you as a representative of the U.S. Government to come back and put the lie in that man's face." Murphy...
Eight to Four. After the jury retired, Alger Hiss sat in the courtroom reading a magazine. He seemed unworried, even happy. As the evening wore on, he read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
...returned still undecided. Twice, the foreman reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...