The Art of Cross-Examination / With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases

Copyright, 1903, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published December, 1903. Reprinted January, twice, February, 1904.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To my Sons RODERIC and ALLEN WHO HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR INTENTION TO ENTER THE LEGAL PROFESSION THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

Cross-examination,—the rarest, the most useful, and the most difficult to be acquired of all the accomplishments of the advocate.... It has always been deemed the surest test of truth and a better security than the oath. —Cox.

In offering this book to the legal profession I do not intend to arrogate to myself any superior knowledge upon the subject, excepting in so far as it may have been gleaned from actual experience. Nor have I attempted to treat the subject in any scientific, elaborate, or exhaustive way; but merely to make some suggestions upon the art of cross-examination, which have been gathered as a result of twenty-five years' court practice, during which time I have examined and cross-examined about fifteen thousand witnesses, drawn from all classes of the community.