PEEL COATS IN VERDICT ARGUMENT
Item
- Title
- PEEL COATS IN VERDICT ARGUMENT
- Source
- The Seattle Star [WA]
- Date
- 1/30/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_bainbridge_ver01/data/sn87093407/00200290823/1920013001/0729.pdf
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- hit; child abuse
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- trial
- Location
- in state; Seattle
- Length of story
- 283
- Description
- Split Six to Six in Boy-Beating Case; Are Excused by Judge - After a stormy debate lasting nearly 12 hours that at times threatened to break into a fist fight, jurors in Superior Judge Everett Smith's court Friday noon announced they were hopelessly disagreed in the case of Policeman Urich Carson, accused of beating his 10-year-old son, Philip, with a stive cleaning rod, November 8. At one time late Thursday night two Jurymen shed their coats and were on the point of settling the argument with bare knuckles when others with cooler hands interfered and prevented an actual clash. Carson is charged with second degree assault, for which the penitentiary, or both. The jurors explained to Judge Smith, after he had excused them from further duty, that they had been agreed that Carson had beaten the boy, but thought the penalty too heavy to fit the case. FINAL VOTE SPLIT SIX TO SIX. The final vote, taken just before noon, is said to have been split six to six, after which the jury gave up its task, unable to reach a verdict. Philip, the boy, called as a witness for the state Thursday, startled the prosecution when he declared: "I didn't get half enough beating. I had stolen money, stayed out all night, smoked cigarets and neglected my studies." SAY CLOTHING STAINED BY BLOOD. When humane society officials found the boy after the alleged beating, his clothing was stained with blood, his scalp cut open and his body covered in black and blue blotches. The jury retired at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and adjourned at midnight, resuming again Friday morning, continuing the argument for more than three hours before announcing that they were "hung."
- Site pages
- The Geography of Reporting
