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October 12, 1926

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DISAGREEMENT ENDS TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY; JURY OUT 65 HOURS; Final Vote Is 7 to 5 to Convict Ex-Attorney General and 10 to 2 Against Miller. NEW TRIAL IS UNCERTAIN Daugherty Regrets He Was Not Acquitted -- His Brother and Mrs. Miller Jubilant. JURORS SET A TIME RECORD Two-and-a-Half Days' Discussion of Five Weeks' Case Was Amicable, They Say. DISAGREEMENT ENDS TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY

By Unknown Author

Jury discharged after 65 hrs' deliberation which ends in disagreement; new trial uncertain; Daugherty regrets he was not acquitted

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NOTED LAWYER SHOT IN CHICAGO GANGWAR; 2 KILLED, 3 WOUNDED; O'Brien, Ex-Aide to Prosecutor, Struck in Machine-Gun Hail From House and Car. VICTIMS GET NO WARNING Attorney Had Just Left Auto After Day in Court Defending a Gang Chief. MORE WARFARE PREDICTED Police Lay Shooting to Caponi Group and Believe O'Brien Was Mistaken for Another. NOTED LAWYER SHOT IN CHICAGO GANG WAR

By Special to The New York Times

E ("Hymie") Weiss and P Murray, gangsters, killed; W W O'Brien, criminal lawyer, S Peller and B Jacobs, wounded in machine-gun hail of bullets in gang war

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Notable Births

Eliška Misáková

1926Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (died 1948)[†]

Eliška Misáková was a Czech gymnast who was selected to attend the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Notable Deaths

Edwin Abbott Abbott

1926Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (born 1838)[†]

Edwin Abbott Abbott was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884).