At last it was suggested to him that it would be comparatively easy to memorize such a signature, and acting on this hint he found that after half an hour's practice he was able to make almost as good a forgery as Parker.

When therefore it came time for him to address the jury he pointed out the fact that Parker's performance on the witness-stand really established nothing at all--that any one could forge such a signature from memory after but a few minutes' practice.
"To prove to you how easily this can be done," said he, "I will volunteer to write a better Kauser signature than Parker did." He thereupon seized a pen and began to demonstrate his ability to do so.
Mrs.Parker, seeing the force of this ocular demonstration, grasped her counsel's arm and cried out: "For God's sake, don't let him do it!" The lawyer objected, the objection was sustained, but the case was saved.
Why, the jury argued, should the lawyer object unless the making of such a forgery were in fact an easy matter?
In desperate cases, desperate men will take desperate chances.

The traditional instance where the lawyer, defending a client charged with causing the death of another by administering poisoned cake, met the evidence of the prosecution's experts with the remark: "This is my answer to their testimony!" and calmly ate the balance of the cake, is too familiar to warrant detailed repetition.

The jury retired to the jury-room and the lawyer to his office, where a stomach pump quickly put him out of danger.

The jury is supposed to have acquitted.
Such are some of the tricks of the legal trade as practised in its criminal branch.