Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1915 — JURY DISAGREED IN BABCOCK LIBEL SUIT [ARTICLE]

JURY DISAGREED IN BABCOCK LIBEL SUIT

Out Several Hours and Reported That They Could Not Come to a Decision—Proved Quite Costly. The jury in the McFarland-Babcock libel suit failed to reach an agree; ment. After being out all of Thursday night the members reported that they could not reach an agreement. Judge McMahon discharged them. The principals and their attorneys returned from Crown Point Thursday evening, after the jury had been instructed and had gone to the jury room to deliberate. Attorney George Hershman, of Crown Point, a young democratic attorney who was formerly located in this city, and who assisted Attorney Halleck in presenting Mr. McFarland’s case, telephoned here shortly before noon that the jury had failed to agree. Nothing was learned from him as to how the jury stood.