Max Steuer, counsel for the defense, might have been better pleased if the jury had not been that raritya New York jury without a Jew. He turned to his client, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, with a hand half-raised: "Look. Are they satisfactory?" Mr. Mitchell murmured grimly: "Satisfactory perfectly satisfactory." They were mostly men of the comfortable, educated middle class. The court adjourned; Mr. Steuer patted Mr. Mitchell's muscular shoulder, ending the first act of an historic trial.
Act II begins with two eloquent monologs. Both Mr. Steuer and U. S. Attorney...
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