The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-11
CINCINNATI STAR.
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months II, three months u ~, six mon. ~res
one year S8-payablc invariably 10 advances.
business-like and practical, Iyet suit
ficiently q politician. He Is of medium
height, strong shouldered, with black,
thick hair, thin m0usIache, and not un-
proposing oountenance.
ROGER A. PRYOR,
on the same side, is tall and lank, though
not excessively, with nearly black hair
falling straight behind, delicately san
guineous complexion, clean shaved, and
uneasy and embarrassed with self con.
seriousness. His hands distract hissat~
Jentlon, as do also his head and most Of
his joints, but especially his under lin.
whicH continually requires to be boosted
up into conference with the prominent
nose. His manner is suaye and com-
planning to an extreme. These unpre-
possessing weaknesses, however, are the
indications OF susceptibility which.is
often related to fine qualities and pow
ers, and Gen. Pryor has taken very re-
spectacle rank at the New York bar.
THE JUNIOR COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE
after Porter, are, General Tracy, OF
Brooklyn, a fairly abie-looking man, OF
EOO0 olLC anu idCCy Wlbu q kiiL.
zled beard, worn full and short. MIR.
Hill, rather elegant looking younger
gentleman, getting prematurely bald, and
who seemed TO make a trivially tedious
work OF examining jurors. Austin Alb
bOtt. a silent walking encyclopedia of
law and precedents; and last and chief,
THOMAS G. sHEARMAN,
one of the sharpest Of legal tacticians,
improved by much service with Gould &c
Fisk, under the generalshIp OF David
Dudley Field and the judicial patronage
OF George q. Barnard, in the palmy days
of the Erie and Tammany Rings. He is
a prominently devout member of Ply
mouth Church, intimate friend and aii.
wiser of Mr.. Be eecher, and buster, night
and day, hands and feet, tongue and
brains, than Old Mex IN a gale Of wind.
: / have laid out LOO much Tor this letter,
and you will have little room lett Tor
THE GREAT CONTEST OVER THE JURY,
when has occupied nearly week.
Nothing like it mas ever been known
since trial by jury began. The dificuIty
has not been so much to lind men un-
committed in oplnion-of whom there
has seemed to he reasonable prop0r-
tomas TO find men unpre JUDGED by as
sOcIation or sympathy, anu TO detect the
sometimes shrewd persons who were too
wi.iing to serve, for tue sake of serving
one or the other party, or else for the
distinction OF the thing. The sitting be-
fore the Court, of plausible candidates,
has been usually very. thoroush by one
side or the other, according to the direc-
tion Of the leaning, which the shrewd
lawyers seldom failed to perceive, and
contested accordingly.
But by lar tue sharpest tug OF war has
been out OF court and out OF sight, over
the s'records" OF the Individuals. prUvi-
sionaily seated in the box. 1t is, per-
haps. not too much to say That hundreds
of detective agents OF both sides have
been Kept securing the city, day and
Il, ,ght, ransacking the lie, associations,
acquaintance, mental, neral, and relisi-
Gus CHARACTERISTICS, and all the past
years conversation, OF every passed ju-
ryman, in order TO satisfy the counsel
whether he was man to be safely ac-
cepted by their side, or one who might
be successfully impeached by witnesses;
or ii neither OF these, whether he was
one of The two most dangerous men of all
on whom their right of peremptory chal-
lenge must be exhausted. (Curieus
some OF our leading papers.)
The amount Of evidence brought before
the Court against passed jurors, and its
success in upseatIng so many Of them,
bears witness at once 10 Inc energy and
the utility Of the c0unsePs labors. The
preparations tor this outside labor were
continually visible in the examination of
jurors. 1t was evident, in nearly every
instance, to which side man was.under-
stood to lean, by the assiduity of the OPP
posite side, it not in opposing him, LIN in-
quiring and noting down every particu-
lar OF his history, family, acquaintance,
and his business, religious and social af-
fliatlons-all for use in outside investi-
CATION.
If man was Catholic; no matter
how tair and unprejudiced his answers
seemed, it was the obvious enaeavor OF
the defence to examine him off il possi-
bic, or at least to get the amplest data
for further investigation. Reason-all
Catholic organs have eagerly assumed
the truth of the scandal, for the sake Of
controversial advantage. A strong Cal
whist was regarded with hardly less
suspicion. On the other hand, these
classes were peculiarly acceptable to
the plaintiff. But there was one slgniti-
cant exception, illustrative OF this stage
OF the contest, in an Iiish Catholic who
Went on the jury Professionally, in spite
OF the severest tests the plaintiffs cOun-
sci were able to bring against hlm, and
with hardly a form OF examination by
Luc uclcuccs LII ldCb IL was -LuO tulus
Considering that the man was Cath
olic. Mr.. Shearman might just as well
have said, me Is one OF our men," as to
have asked the questions he did. Both
sides it was clear understood the man
and what he was there for, and yet
nothing could be got for him more COM
promising than somewhat overemysta-
tic denial OF the tampering with hlm by
one OF Sherman's Well-known agents,
which was implied inthe examination.
STEPHEN LEWIS CASE
was curious one. Passed on Wednes-
day afternoon. Thursday morning saw
a deputatIon Of voluntary witnesses on
hand IN court, from a. distance in New
Jersey, TO prove that he had been an ar
dent partizan out there all the time. Yet
it was probably true, as he said, that he
had not expressed an opinion" He had
become noted in Bricksburg as a cham
pion Of Beecher, by simply inyeighing
against his neighbors for condemning
the man without trial and without proof.
His vehement defense could not be dis
tinguished by them for ian opinion as
was an opinion" Probably it originated
in strong, even If unconscious, bias.
He was unhesitatingly thrown out OF
the Court, as well as Robinson at the
same time--the chamDiOn whose opin-