Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — Careful Statement. [ARTICLE]

Careful Statement.

“Was this man Dennis an entire stranger to you?” asked the cross examining counsel of a witness tn an important case. “Sort?” said the witness, whose stupid face was crossed with wrinkles of anxiety, for he had been warned to be cautious and exact in his answers. The lawyer repeated his question. “Well, no, sorr,” sajri the witness, with a sudden gleam of enlightenment. “He couldn’t be that, for be had but the wan arrm, sorr, but he was a parrtial stranger, sort. Oi’d niver seen him befoor.”—Youth's Companion.