Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-23

Judge but gave the judge the care OF
burro Then he rapidly caricatured others
OF the oficlals about the court room.
now. n Baker had allowed his sketching
10 20 at that everything would have been
all right The sketches weren't designed 20
pe seen BY anybody except his counsel
But having exhausted with his pencil all 81
the other countenances IN the court room.
jim, began on the female Jurors Some %
these women's exteriors offered fertile sug-
gestions 70 the pencil Of the caricaturist.
Jim caught their shortcomings OF form,
feature and expression, and he transferred
their likenesses to the slips Of paper with
all OF their incongruities magnihed hun
dredfold The forewoman OF the jury was
Ia most excellent person, but she was af-
ficted with very severe expression and a
large and most pendulous nose. Baker gave
her. in his sketch. the expression OF a
vlrago, and while he overdid the size OF
her nose, the likeness was one that any
body could instantly recognize. Seated
next to the forewoman in the Jury box was
AN elderly spinstcr who wore her hair IN
kinky, gingery ringlets, with a bunch Of
the ringlets suspended over each OF her
ears, and Jim made her headdress look like
NlldN VI "A fNhlllI WITHOUT IN the lehSL HnOll@
ing the effect OF the perfect likeness An
other OF the jurors was an extremely adj
pose woman who was koenly sensitive on
the subject of her stoutness. and Jim
drew her as a circus fut girl, seated on a
chair in a circus sideshow. with the living
skeleton and the dwarf beside her In out
line.
Jurors See the CuriCntures
"Jim had just about finished amusing
himself when the lawyers ceased their argu-
ments and the Judge began his charge TO
the jury. Jim knocked OF his sketching
work to listen to the charge. The charge
was pretty well on Jims side, and II
looked az II he would get OF with a light
sentence. II he were not acquitted.
but, unfortunately for Jim. when the
case was handed over 20 the Jury all the
slips Of paper upon which he had drawn
his caricatures were, without Jinl's noticing
It, gathered up with some legal papers
on his counsels table and taken to the
jury room.
Before the sketches caught the eye OF
any of the Jurors several ballots were
taken. Every last one Of the women voted
for Jln1's acquittal There were some stub
born fellows among the male Jurors. how
ever. and these voted to give Jim the verdict
of manslaughter.
ut was just at this stage OF IT, while
! the preliminary ballots were being taken,
that Jim's caricatures were discovered IN
the mass OF papers gathered from his coun-
| sells desk. There wasn't any doubt as to
who had made the sketches. All hands
! Of the Jurors suddenly remembered how
busy Jim had been with his pencil in the
court room, and, anyhow in accordance
! VT i'm, IN HIS
name at the bottom Of each sketch.
'wretohl Murderer were the instant
denunciatory terms with which the women
| jurors adverted to the unfortunate Jim.
! The women gathered about the table in
! the Jury room in a bunch and examined
I the sketches with flaming eyes. They
didn't let the male jurymen see the sketches
except at a distance. The male jurymen,
! however, quickly found out what had
changed the attitude OF their female COM
panions on the fury toward Baker, and
they exchanged glances with each other.
The One Best Bet.
I'm laying 10 to L. whispered Bill Nor
ton 70 another OF the male Jurymen, that
this here Baker ombrey is as good as
| stretched
There were no takers.
/ "Bil Morton's prediction was correct.
The very next ballot showed six solid ball
lots for murder in the first degree. Ballot
| after ballot was taken. with the same re-
| suit every time. ,.
THE men on the Jury expostulated. ex-
planned, argued and even pleaded but the
women were inexorabe, Finally the men
on the Jury held a consultation. ..... ...
att amt no square deal for Jim, said
Bill Morton, but here we are pulling down
two wheels a day on a jury when we
could be making $40 a day on the outside,
and these women sure never will craw-
fish, so what's the user
"'Yep, and Jim's only a half-breed, any
how suggested another male juror.
''''Like as not the governor'll pardon him
II we do slide along with the women, so
we might as well cave and save time,'
said another OF the male jurymen,
And It was all of with Jim.
"The Indian blood in Jim gave him
stolidity, and he took his medicine like a
man, even though the verdict was an i'm
mense surprise to him, as II was to every
body else in Cheyenne and the territory.
Jim wasn't pardoned by the governor, and
ne was hanged with oil Of the eclat and
dignity that the officials OF the newly-made
county could devise.
but the story OF those caricatures of
Jims soon got out, and It had its effect.
While women have voted and held once
| In Wyoming from the time the territory
was organized, the trial Of Jim Baker was
the first and last in which women have hg-
ured as jurors."-Chicaso Inter Ocean.
/