The Archive · 1929

Ascot Apartments

Law to Work Both Ways

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Witness:—I know naching of the! ter whatever.

Mr. Bryan:—Well, did you ever} sce Garcia there?

Witness:—Not once.

Mr, Bryan:—Say, what did you tell the police?

Here Dr. Fischer objected, "I want a ruling on whether Mr. Bryan can threaten his own witness like this. He can't intimidate him when the answer is not as he expected. Such fa ching is mot possible in any other court. Yeu have said the law is 5 ur idot and Mr. Bryan said the law worked both ways, now I want it to work for me."

Mr. Bryan:—Well, he made totally ferent answers to the police and swers to Mr. Bryan's questions on. advice of counsel "was not beneficial to your ease." He was asked further pation, in gambling. said that frequently he had been a silent partner. "Only once I gambled myself and that was when a friend, Commander Sligloff, and his asked me to play and I won or lost $50 or $100."

The ease was'then adjourned.

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