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Show MIGHT BE CALLED EVIDENCE At Least Participant In Fight Had Reason to Believe He Was Telling the Truth. Two colored soldiers at a frontier post had a fight, during which one of the combatants lost aa ear, and the other was accused or having bitten It off. The case was tried by a general court-martial, and the counsel for the defense, in cross-examination of the one-eared man, tbe principal witness tor the prosecution, asked: "Where 41d this light take place?" "In Mista Nelson's co'n field, jes' outside de reservation," reser-vation," answered the witness. "What was the condition of the ground?" "Hit arm covered wid stubble co'n had all been cut." "Now," said the counsel, glaring at the witness, "you are on ath, and will gt into serious trouble If you tell anything but the truth. Could not your ear have been torn off by the sharp stubble?" "Yaas, sah," Bald the witness, "hit mought." "Then what io yon mean by stating under ath that the accused bit it off?" " 'Cause," said the witness, "I done leen him spit it out." |