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Sir Charles Russell, when practising at the Bar, ■was a noted cross-examiner, and it was a shrewd witness who could circumvent him. On one occasion, at least, however, the laugh was on him by an innocently-in-tended answer. He was cross-examining a witness in regard to certain hoof-prints left by a horse on sandy soil. . 'How large were the prints?' asked Sir Charles. * Were they as large as my hand holding up his hand for the witness to see it. 'Oh, no,' replied the man in the box; 'they were just ordinary-sized hoofs, sir.' . '
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New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1913, Page 62
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