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...grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...
...conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales of justice. Various tales- have leaked out of what happened there. One thing is certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated man and a bank clerk...
Judge Julian W. Mack called the twelve jurors to him, explained to them the law and the charges, told them to start deliberating. That night they called for a section of the exhibits (evidence); pondered thereon; went to their rooms at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan. All the next day at the federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked...
...have not. . . . The situation is hopeless," said Juror No. 1, the foreman...
...Later Juror No. 8 told the press that the jury stood ten to two for conviction of onetime Alien Property Custodian Miller, and six to six on onetime Attorney General Daugherty...