THE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
Witness. "I don't remember."
Counsel. "How many years ago was it?"
Witness. "I couldn't say."
Counsel. "What is your best memory as to how many years ago it was."
Witness. "I can't recollect."
Counsel. "Try to recollect about when you were married."
Witness. "I was married twice, civil marriage and church marriage."
Counsel. "I am talking about Miss Sadie Cook. When were you married to Sadie Cook, and where is the marriage recorded?"
Witness. "I tell you I don't remember."
Counsel. "Try."
Witness. "It might be five or six or seven or ten years ago."
Counsel. "Then you cannot tell within five years of the time when you were married, and you are now only twenty-five years old?"
Witness. "I cannot."
Counsel. "Were you married at fifteen years of age?"
Witness. "I don't think I was."
Counsel. "You know, do you not, that your marriage was several years after this arrest in Bridgeport that I have been speaking to you about?"
Witness. "I know nothing of the kind."
Counsel (resolutely). "Do you deny it?"
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