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Cleveland State UniversityEngagedScholarship@CSUMasthead LogoAll Articles Newspaper Coverage11-6-195454/11/06 Women Jurors Give Colorful Backdropto Drab, Grim Scene at Murder TrialCleveland PressFollow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverageHow does access to this work benefit you? Let us know!This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspaper Coverage at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion inAll Articles by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact library.es@csuohio.edu.Recommended CitationCleveland Press, "54/11/06 Women Jurors Give Colorful Backdrop to Drab, Grim Scene at Murder Trial" (1954). All Articles. 307.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/307Women Jurors Give ????????Backdrop ??to Drab, Grim Scene at Murder Trial By RICHARD McLAUGHLIN Housewives all, mothers all but one, the six women on the S am Sheppard jury have pushed into the background their normal family routines to serve -how long nobody knows-as judges of evidence in the nation's most sensation· al murder trial since the Lind· bergh baby kidnap-murder case. band at 7010 Pearl Rd., Mid· dleburg Heights. Mrs. Feuchter, 54, oldest member of the jury but not lacking in pep and enthusiasm, wore a golden, long-.sleeved tailored blouse as she sat as Juror No. 5. Her skirt was beige and she had on a brown crown-style nat. Mrs. Feuchter has no children, lives at 3541 Warren Rd. Mother of Five Not far from her, at 2u!ll Ave. She was wearing a two- pleasant interludes between piece gray suit with white now and the day they hand cuffs and a white collar with down a verdict and take up broad lapels. Pearls were their normal lives again. tight about her throat and But everybody who has right wrist and she had on a spent much time in the Shep-black off-the-face hat, which pard trial room knows they set off her bangs and long curling brown hair. There's nothing pleasant about the business these six women have been going about for three weeks. And there won't be many have one thing in common. Despite the tenseness, the bitterness-even the horror-surrounding them-All these lady jurors have real nice smiles. In a trial in which, so far, only grim-visaged men in their drab blue or gray clothing have been featured, the women jurors o!fer refreshing relief as a backdrop· for the court; room scene. Warren Rd., Lakewood, lives ---------Mrs. Ann W. Foote, mother of They are attractive, intelli· gent-looking and pleasant. They are as pert and snappy-looking as any group of six women picked · by lot in a community of a million and a half. They dress attractively-but for comfort - in conservative clothing to keep them warm outdoors and at ease during the lDng hours in the jury box. All like Small Hats They all favor small, off-the. face hats and all wear earrings. Four of the six have short hair trims, the other two let their hair-dos frame their faces. Take Mrs. Elizabeth Borke. She likes to wear white five children. She sat as Juror o. 7 yesterday in a vivid blue-violet wool dress with white collar and cuffs and black belt. Running under the collar was a short necklace. Her black pillbox hat featured a veil, a perky feather curling forward. Next to her sat Mr . Beatrice P. Orenstein, 33 • year • old mother of two. She wore .a tur-quoise sweater with a white cardigan over it, and a light colored skirt. A string of pearls was knotted in front and her hat was well back on her brown hair. She lives at 12712'Phillips Ave., East Cleve: land. ' blouses. Yesterday's outfit in- Mrs. Louella WilliamS", 50-cluded a black tailored skirt, year-old divorcee and mother a black ribbon tied at her col- of four, wa dressed in a cocoa-lar. Over the blouse was a colored shirtwaist dress. A peach colored cardigan sweat- creamy sailor-type felt hat er. · perched on her black hair. Mrs. Hardly discernible against Williams lives at- 2209 E. 71st her black hair was a black St. pillbox hat. Her earrings were The alternate juror is Mrs. huge pearls. :Mrs. Borke goes Lois H. Mancini, outhful, at· !home at the . end of the day tractive mother of two girls. to her two children and hus· She lives at 16920 Stockbridge 

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