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One such recorded questioning follows.

“Did you or did you not,

the aforementioned day Friday, November 4th,

feloniously and with malicious aforethought,

listen at the keyhole of the 10th floor condominium,

then occupied as a residence

by the defendant in the within action,

— on 86th Street at West End Avenue.

And did you also, on the Wednesday

following the Friday

in November heretofore referred to,

communicate to your wife the information

acquired, and repeat the conversation overheard

on that occasion

— with the result that the gossip of your wife gave

far and wide outcry to the overheard conversation?

Did you or did you not? Yes or no?”

The answer of the witness was very short:

“Huh?”-

Yes, we lawyers are the orators of our modern

society. And of equal oratorical and perhaps even

rhetorical nature, again recorded in the annuals of

legal history in a court transcription, is the following:

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