in 1904, James Noble Tyner was on trial for various charges of fraud linked to his position of Assistant Attorney to the United States Post Office. The central image is Tyner the blankets on Tyner's legs and the cushions behind him; these are because, as the result of an illness in 1903, Tyner was paralyzed from the waist down and his wife, Christine Hinds Tyner. To the far right, the man with a mustache is Tyner's nephew, Harrison J. Barrett, a law clerk -- and Tyner's assistant -- who was implicated in the fraud. At the lower left is Holmes Conrad, who was involved in Tyner's prosecution. Uppermost is Jeter Connelly Pritchard, who served as judge.