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Mr. Wellman is famous for following this precept himself and,
with one eye significantly cast upon the jury, is likely to
lead his witness a merry dance until the latter is finally
"bogged" in a quagmire of absurdities. Not long ago, shortly
after the publication of his book, the lawyer had occasion to
cross-examine a modest-looking young woman as to the speed of
an electric car. The witness seemed conscious that she was
about to undergo a severe ordeal, and Mr. Wellman, feeling
himself complete master of the situation, began in his most
winsome and deprecating manner:
"And how fast, Miss, would you say the car was going?"
"I really could not tell exactly, Mr. Wellman."
"Would you say that it was going at ten miles an hour?"
"Oh, fully that!"
"Twenty miles an hour?"
"Yes, I should say it was going twenty miles an hour."
"Will you say it was going thirty miles an hour?" inquired
Wellman with a glance at the jury.
"Why, yes, I will say that it was."
"Will you say it was going forty?"
"Yes.
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