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Witness (hesitating). "Yes, sir. I made, of course, a working diagnosis."
Counsel. "Do you remember the case you had before that?"
Witness. "I remember another case."
Counsel. "When was that?"
Witness. "It was a still longer time ago. I don't know the date."
Counsel. "How many years ago, on your oath?"
Witness. "Fifteen, probably."
Counsel. "Any others?"
Witness. "Yes, one other."
Counsel. "When?"
Witness. "Twenty years ago."
Counsel. "Are these three cases all you can remember in your experience?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel (chancing it). "Were more than one of them deaths from morphine?"
Witness. "No, sir, only one."
Counsel (looking at the jury somewhat triumphantly). "Then it all comes down to this: you have had the experience of one case of morphine poisoning in the last twenty years?"
Witness (in a low voice). "Yes, sir, one that I can remember."
Counsel (excitedly). "And are you willing to come here from Philadelphia, and state that the New York
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