The Archive · 1908

AW 201 Y. WOODRUFF

Mr. Fleming stated that counsel for terser or more just language that that used by his Honoar, the turpitude and a lie. Mr. Fleming had told the plaintiffs wanted " discontinuance. worthlessness of the evidence of Chang story about a fly-speck. It might Mr. Newman, clerk of Messrs Drum-Kwei-sun. Counsel took it that in the that there was speck on that docu-mond, White Cooper & Phillips, moved former trial the Court would not have ment, but if not, there was a speck on for a discontinuance. convicted the defendant at all but for the character of the witness, That was Mr. Fessenden stated that the case the evidence of this very witness. Now how it stood. What stood between had been settled out of Court. him and contradiction? A fly speck.

His Honour accordingly dismissed if it were eliminated from the case upon what other basis, if any, was there There was a fly-speck between him and the case.

Tofficient proof to convict an American his good reputation. Where was the citizen who had stood by Roosevelt on brother in law of the chief counsel

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