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the district attorney because the "square root" is smaller than the number of which it is the square root.  Showing also that I did not want to enounce the full law so as not to confuse a jury made up of farmers.  The way I enounced the law it would take 2 1/2 times longer for chlorine to diffuse than air; the accurate way of enouncing it would take only 1 1/2 minutes longer.  After the facts were brought out and the district attorney was routed all members of the jury as well as the judge had the laugh at the district attorney.
Cross examination finished at noon before lunch. Zabriskie
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and Cohn concluded it would be better not to dispel good effect of my testimony by new witnesses and therefore announced that they were going to abandon the right of presenting further witnesses.  This took the prosecution by surprise because they expected we were going to bring forth many more witnesses.
Recess and lunch at noon.
Lunch 0.70.
Afternoon address to jury by lawyer Cohn.  followed by Dickerson for prosecution.  The latter used inflated language, yelling and shouting and all artifices of Rhetoric.  Called Baskerville "the Young wise man from New York" who knew a lot
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