Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1915 — NO VERDICT YET IN LIBEL SUIT [ARTICLE]

NO VERDICT YET IN LIBEL SUIT

Deadlock Caused by Juror Who Favors Division by Principals of the Costs and Disbursements. Syracuse, N. Y., May 21.—The jury in the trial of William Barnes* suit for libel against Theodore Roosevelt was deadlocked tonight, after once having returned a conditioned verdict in favor of the former president, which Supreme Court Justice William S. Andrews refused to receive. The condition, which made the verdict an improper one, was the trifling court costs and disbursements should be divided between the two principals in the action. ' That the jury would be held over until Monday, should it fail to find a proper verdict by tomorrow, was considered improbable by attorneys in the case. The deadlock was the result of Juror No. 11 —Edward Burns, a Syracuse motorman and a republican—announcing in substance that if the costs and disbursements were not divided he favored a verdict for the plaintiff. Tonight after the proposal of putting the costs upon one of the principals had been under consideration for more than ten hours o word had come from the jury room to idicate that the jury stood otherwise than it did when it was sent back to its room.