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Show When He Stopped Payment. The bullying manner sometimes assumed as-sumed by certain barristers in cross examination, in order to confuse a witness wit-ness and make his replies to important questions hesitating and contradictory, is notorious, and many are the tales told of ' ' cute' ' witnesses who have turned the tables on their persecutors. The following fol-lowing relates to a case of this kind : In a civil action on money matters the plaintiff had stated that his financial finan-cial position was always satisfactory. , In cross examination he was asked if he had ever been bankrupt. No, was the answer. Next question was, "Now, bo careful; care-ful; did you ever stop payment?" "Yes," was the reply. "Ah," exclaimed the counsel, "I thought we should get at it at last When did that happen?" "After I paid all I owed," was the answer. London Tit-Bits. |