Francis L. Wellman of the New York Bar
WITH THE CROSS-EXAMINATIONS OF IMPORTANT
WITNESSES IN SOME CELEBRATED CASES
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1904
All rights reserved
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.