is expected to do, and it is one of the burdens they bear as jurors. In this case it is an extremely heavy burden on what apparently is an emotional lady, or at least a lady who has shown less strength in that regard to make heavy decisions than her fellow jurors, but I don't submit that it is grounds for a mistrial."

Apparently Eagan, too, believed that Brickle was a holdout. He suggested that the jury be called in and instructed to consider the views of their fellow jurors. This is a standard lecture designed to break a deadlock---the so-called "Allen instruction," also known as "the dynamite charge."

Paul denied the motion for a mistrial, and he told Eagan that he was not ready to deliver dynamite. He sent the clerk of the court to bring Irma Brickle back into the jury room.

It was 2:50 p.m.

*

Tommy Zeigler passed the afternoon in a holding cell near the courtroom. Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, bailiffs had allowed him to wait with the defense team in an unsecured room. This was contrary to procedure, but in Jacksonville, as in Orange County, Zeigler had won the trust of his jailers.

On Thursday afternoon, however, a reporter noticed the arrangement, and mentioned it in an article that Judge Paul read on Friday. Paul ordered Zeigler kept behind bars.

It didn't matter anyway, one of the bailiffs told Zeigler; an acquittal was in the works. Having attended hundreds of trials, he said, he was never wrong.

At 5:00 p.m., the jury announced that it had a verdict.

Zeigler was brought in from the cell, nervous and a little dazed. Another bailiff had told him that the clue to a verdict was in the jurors' demeanor when they came into the courtroom. If they looked directly at the defendant, it meant that they had acquitted. If they avoided looking at him, they had found him guilty.

Zeigler studied them as they filed in. Most of them averted their eyes. Irma Brickle looked at him, but she was crying, and the look in her eyes was pity.

The foreman was a black man named Charles Ashley. He handed the verdict forms to the clerk, who gave them to Paul, who gave them to the clerk to be read.

In the death of Eunice Zeigler, guilty of murder, first degree.

In the death of Charles Mays, guilty of murder, first degree.

In the death of Perry Edwards, guilty of murder, second degree.

In the death of Virginia Edwards, guilty of murder, second degree.