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 your picture, 'This is how I saw it done, Thomas J. Minnock,' a facsimile of your handwriting?"

Witness. "Yes, sir, it is my handwriting."

Counsel. "Referring to the history of your life again how many imaginary articles on the subject have you written for the newspapers throughout the country?"

Witness. "One."

Counsel. "You have put several articles in New York papers, have you not?"

Witness. "It was only the original story. It has since been redressed, that's all."

Counsel. "Each time you signed the article and sold it to the newspaper for money, did you not?"

Court. "Excluded."

Counsel (with a sudden change of manner, and in a loud voice, turning to the audience). "Is the chief of police of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the court room? (Turning to the witness.) Mr. Minnock, do you know this gentleman?"

Witness. "I do."

Counsel. "Tell the jury when you first made his acquaintance."

Witness. "It was when I was arrested in the Atlantic Hotel, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with my wife."

Counsel. "Was she your wife at the time?"

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "She was but sixteen years old?"