The trial was notorious for Jones being asked to display a portion of her body to the jury in the judge's chambers. Wearing a coat over underwear, she dropped the coat to the top of her breasts so they could see her shoulders; then she pulled it up so they could see her lower legs. The question of "whiteness" was not litigated, but this was Davis' attempt to show what Rhinelander would have seen. (245 N.Y. 510). The jury viewed her shoulders, back and legs, concluding that she was indeed "colored" and that Rhinelander had to have been aware that she had some black ancestry, and thus could be reasonably sure that she had not tried to deceive him about her racial identity. The judge barred reporters from seeing the demonstration to prevent any photographs. The tabloid newspaper "New York Evening Graphic", which had regularly used composographs to depict various events, usually salacious in nature, created a photograph depicting a model stripped to the waist with her back to the camera being viewed by a group of lawyers and one woman in a courtroom. The photo ran on the front page of the "Evening Graphic" and boosted the paper's circulation.