at 9:45 a.m. the wheel was turned the lid was unlocked with jacket removed and right shirt sleeve rolled up a blindfolded clerk Charles H Carpenter reached in as he did the room went deathly silent William Jones 46th Street near 10th Avenue was the first name each drawn name was shouted and it was shouted out into Third Avenue after each announcement there were Snickers jeers Galls swearing and abusive comments about abolitionist Lincoln and the rich occasionally a girlfriend or wife shrieked or swooned but there was no real disorder