DIDN’T KNOW HER AGE
Emily Edson Briggs, once famous as a newspaper correspondent, was a witness in a wdl case, and had listened with interest to the badgering of the witness by one of the lawyers, particularly his insistence that they should testify only to what they knew of their own knowledge. Finally she was called to the stand, and this same lawyer questioned her. She cheerfully answered the preliminary questions as to her name, residence, and profession; but when asked her age she said: * I do not know.’ ‘What! You do not know your age?’ inquired the attorney. ‘No, sir, I do not know.’ ‘ Do you know when you were born?’ ‘ No, sir,’ she replied. ‘ I have only hearsay evidence on that subject.’
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New Zealand Tablet, 20 February 1913, Page 62
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124DIDN’T KNOW HER AGE New Zealand Tablet, 20 February 1913, Page 62
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