A better witness never took the stand. Unguided, without a single interruption from his counsel, he foiled the great Apache of the prosecution at every turn. If he did not win his case, it is because the case is past winning. He won, at all events, the sympathy of the swarming spectators. He impressed, in any case, the wearied jurors.
Again it was rapier first and bludgeon second.
[1]. See the very humane recommendations of the Hon. Cornelius V. Collins, Superintendent of State Prisons, in his report for 1901.