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

by Francis L. Wellman

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "It was not true?"

Witness. "No, sir."

Counsel. "When you said that you continued with this circus for over a year, and went with it to Belgium, there was a particle of truth in that because you did, as a matter of fact, go to Belgium, but not with the circus as a public clown; is that the idea?"

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "So there was some little truth mixed in at this point with the other matter?"

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "When you wrote that you were introduced in Belgium, at the Hospital General, to Charcot, the celebrated Parisian hypnotist, was there some truth in that?"

Witness. "No, sir."

Counsel. "You knew that Charcot was one of the originators of hypnotism in France, didn't you?"