COMEDY OF A JURY OF WOMEN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 6

COMEDY OF A JURY OF WOMEN.

VERDICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH FACTS. The first jury of women summoned to try "a"'case in San Francisco held that if a. woman throws a stone which breaks a window that fact is evidence that she did not break the window intentionally. • Mrs Minto accused Mrs Rodey _of breaking her window owing to spite. The evidence, showed that Mrs Rodey threw a stone and also that the window was broken. __ . . The women jurors then,"retired, and after a brief consultation returned a verdict of "Not guilty." The forewoman explained to the .surprised court that the jury wore only applying common sense to the case, and had unanimously concluded that no woman could hit a given mark with a stone. She added that as the stone hurled by Mrs Rodey smashed a window it ivus perfectly obvious to the jury that she was aiming at something else and that the .stoue struck the window accidentally.