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At our next meeting we unanimously elected Miss Katherine Burke McDermott an honorary member of the Rifles . Tom Ryland 's sister drew up the resolutions , and they were very beautiful . * * * * * `` It was a sultry afternoon , and the little jury-room was suffocating . The fight for a life which had raged out in the gloomy court-room for two weeks or more was now transferred to the ten by twelve cubby-hole where we had been cooped up since noon . The evidence against the prisoner was overwhelming , but some of the jurors still wavered as to their clear duty . Eight of us were for murder in the first degree ; the others were in the same frame of mind , I am sure , but tantalizingly slow about saying so . It looked like an all-night struggle .