Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination — Chapter 11 (1903)
“ THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RICHARD PIGOTT BY SIRCHARLES RUSSELL BEFORE THE PARNELL COMMISSION The modern method of studying any subject, or acquiring any art, is the inductive method. This is illustrated in our law schools, where to a large extent actual cases are studied, to get at the principles of law instead of acquiring those principles solely through the a priori method of the study of text-books. ”
Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination — Chapter 11 (1903)
“ Probably one of the most dramatic and successful of the more celebrated cross-examinations in the history of the English courts is Russell's cross-examination of Pigott—the chief witness in the investigation growing out of the attack upon Charles S. Parnell and sixty-five Irish members of Parliament, by name, for belonging to a lawless and even murderous organization, whose aim was the overthrow of English rule. ”
Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination — Chapter 11 (1903)
“ In fact it was Pigott's spelling of this word that had put the Irish members on his scent. Pat Egan, seeing the word spelt with an 'e' in one of the incriminatory letters, had written to Parnell, saying in effect, 'Pigott is the forger. In the letter ascribed to you "hesitancy" is spelt "hesitency." That is the way Pigott always spells the word.' These things were not dreamt of in the philosophy of the attorney general when he interrupted Russell's cross-examination with the request that the sheet 'had better be photographed.' So closed the first round of the combat. ”
