The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
FITTED FOR THEIR TASK
Thaw Jury Noted as Remarkable
Intelligent Body of Men.

| New York, Feb. ia great many
lawyers of standing have visited the
Thaw trial, and invariably as they have
watched the progress OF the proceedings
their remark has been:
what fine jury-just the right, sub
stantial sort of jury for so great a
case"
Deming B. Smith, the foreman and
the first man selected, is perhaps the
calmest, most quiet man of the IL. He
has keen deepset eyes under Slightly
bristling brows that counterfeit the eff
feet of an otherwise mild and benign
countenance. He hears all that passes
without so much as moving in his
chair and no one in the court room
would so much venture to suggest
what effect either the dry or the inter-
esting testimony has upon him.
His bearing is only a trifie more calm
than that of his left-hand neighbor.
George Pfaff, a strengthened, smooth
shaver, fine headed man.
The recital of each witness he seems
to absorb rather than to pay minute
attention to, for his head rarely moves,
and his face never changes it's set ex-
preston.
Charles H. Fecke, who is juror No.
g. is inclined to nervousness. as the
blinking of his eyes and frequent pull
ings at his stubby black mustache in
dictate. He has the ruddiest. healthiest
color of all the jurors. His rounded
physique is in marked contrast to Os-
car A. Pinks. the juror who sits upon
his lett III seat NO. 4. 6lHhS Is not
pink at all. but brownish in mustache
and complexion. His head frequently is
inclined toward the rail-supreme in
terest is betokened in his eyes.
Gray mustached, military looking,
Henry c. Harvey, who is juror No s,
has a face as impressive as Bismarck's.
Reserve, poise, eQuanimity and force
are in the very air about him.
More serious than all the rest is
juror No. 6-Henry c. Brearley. the
thinnest man in the box. Breariey al
ways looks intently at the witness,
and he rarely faces to the front. The
side attitude makes it a necessity for
him to see many of the spectators
when he raises his eyes and peers
through the glasses that balance on
the bridge of his nose. He freque ntly
places his left elbow on his knee and
leans with his elbow upon the upturn-
The back row. with small nous
tached, round headed, pleasant faced
Malcolm S. Frazer at one end is juror
No. Z, and smooth shaver Bernard
Gertsman as juror No. IL at the other
is more animated. Gertsman has an
odd way when he listens intently of
placing the initial digit of his left
hand along the right side of his nose
with the nail pointed toward the sky
and his chin resting in the palm of the
hand. He assumes this attitude with
apparent inconsistencies whenever
the case drags. At other times he is
as keenly alert as John d. Bolton,
Juror No Il, whose blue eyes are new
err still. They wander from witness to
judge, then to Mr.. Jerome. Mr.. Del
mas and the spectators in turn. and
then back at the witness. His face is
kindly, and there is in it evidence of
the sense of humor which the counte-
nance of the quiet man to his right
seems to lack.
This is John S. Dennee. juror No. 10.
the southerner, whose expression of
cold. hard consideration never
changes. His smooth shaver face is
distinctly a southern face. He seems
small of stature beside Wilbur F.
Steele, Juror No. 9, who sits beside
him, and Steele Is the biggest man on