JURY OF WOMEN.

Mataura Ensign, 25 January 1911, Page 5

JURY OF WOMEN.

YKKDICT IN 20 SECONDS. AVidespread comment has been excited by vhe action .it San Francisco of the first jury in America ever composed exclusively of women. The ease which they were called on to decide was one in which a divorced husband was sued by his former wife. There were two children of the marriage. The daughter had been consigned to the care of the mother and the son to that of the father. On the petition of the mother the ease was reopened, and the judge summoned twelve "good women and true" from among the spectators to act as a jury. After a deliberation lasting for 20 seconds, the jury of women decided that the divorced man was not a fit person to have anything to do with the upbringing of his offspring. Newspaper comment on the "twenty-second verdict" discloses a comic state of alarm at the prospect of juries of wo- , men being allowed to decide the fate of men in matrimonial disputes.