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Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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There is abundant proof,nevertheless, of his skill in this particular, and itis conceded by all his contemporaries that as across-examiner he had no equal at the bar. In the trial of a case he moved cautiously,said Judge Weldon, and never examined orcross-examined witnesses to the detriment of hisown side. If the witness told the truth, he wassafe from his attacks; but woe betide the unluckyor dishonest individual who suppressed the truthor colored it. Another of his associates testifies that hewould not tolerate the evasions of his own wit-nesses when they were being questioned by hisopponents, and more than once he openly re-proved his own clients for dodging and sulkingin the witness-chair. He was a great cross-examiner, Mr. JamesEwing remarked to the writer, in that he neverasked an unnecessary question. He knew whenand where to stop with a witness, and when aman has learned that he is entitled to take rankas an expert questioner. 222 3=3 3 O ct3 3 2S ? X 7; » X s s> X llq = ~
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THE CROSS-EXAMINER I shall never forget my experience with him,observed Mr. James Hoblit of Logan County,Illinois, one of the few men now living who everfaced him in the witness-chair. I was sub-poenaed in a case brought by one Paullin againstmy uncle, and I knew too much about the matterin dispute for my uncles good. The case wasnot of vital importance, but it seemed very seriousto me, for I was a mere boy at the time. Mr.Paullin had owned a bull which was continuallyraiding his neighbors corn, and one day myuncle ordered his boys to drive the animal out ofhis fields, and not to use it too gently, either.Well, the boys obeyed the orders only too liter-ally, for one of them harpooned the bull with apitchfork, injuring it permanently, and I sawenough of the occurrence to make me a danger-ous witness. The result was that Paullin sued my uncle,the boys were indicted for malicious mischief,Mr. Lincoln was retained by the plaintiff, whowas determined to make an example of some-body, and I

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