The same lawyer not many years ago defended a client named Abraham Levy.

In like manner he managed to get an Abraham Levy on the jury, and on that occasion succeeded in getting his client off scot-free.
No method is too far-fetched to be made use of on the chance of "catching" some stray talesman.

In a case defended by Ambrose Hal.
Purdy, where the deceased had been wantonly stabbed to death by a blood-thirsty Italian shortly after the assassination of President McKinley, the defence was interposed that a quarrel had arisen between the two men owing to the fact that the deceased had loudly proclaimed anarchistic doctrines and openly gloried in the death of the President, that the defendant had expostulated with him, whereupon the deceased had violently attacked the prisoner, who had killed him in self-defence.
The whole thing was so thin as to deceive nobody, but Mr.Purdy, as each talesman took the witness-chair to be examined on the voir dire, solemnly asked each one: "Pardon me for asking such a question at this time--it is only my duty to my unfortunate client that impels me to it--but have you any sympathy with anarchy or with assassination ?" The talesman, of course, inevitably replied in the negative.
"Thank you, sir," Purdy would continue: "In that event you are entirely acceptable!" Not long ago two shrewd Irish attorneys were engaged in defending a client charged with an atrocious murder.

The defendant had the most Hebraic cast of countenance imaginable, and a beard that reached to his waist.

Practically the only question which these lawyers put to the different talesmen during the selection of the jury was, "Have you any prejudice against the defendant on account of his race ?" In due course they succeeded in getting several Hebrews upon the jury who managed in the jury-room to argue the verdict down from murder to manslaughter in the second degree.