THE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
Q. "For you had to earn your expert's fee?"
A. "Of course I was paid for my examination, but that had nothing to do with it. I want you to understand that I made my examination most conscientiously."
Q. "Can you swear that you saw no more than you wanted to see?"
A. "I saw nothing."
Q. "And each of her ribs, on your oath as a scholar, was as good and sound as a daddy's dollar?"
(Outburst of laughter, and the judge used his gavel. Dr. ——— appealed to the court for protection, but Mr. Towns continued.)
Q. "You say you think she was malingering?"
A. "I do."
Q. "So when the poor creature ventured to cope with you and your science and your stethoscope, for her you'll acknowledge there was little hope?"
A. "I have come here to tell the truth, and I maintain that it would be very hard for a young woman of her type to deceive me."
(Renewed laughter and the judge's gavel fell with greater force. Counsel was admonished, but he continued.)
Q. "She might scream in anguish till the end of her breath, your opinion once formed you'd hold until death?"
Not answered.
Q. "Though she fell through a hole clear up to her arm, and that's quite a fall, it did her no harm; in
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