Excerpt from Recollections of the Court Room, or Narratives, Scenes and Anecdotes From Courts of Justice The popularity of the Recollections of the Court Room in England, has induced the American pub lishers to issue the work uniform with the series of tales known as The Confessions of an Attorney, Experiences of a Barrister, etc. Works which have had extraordinary success. This edition is not an exact reprint of the English one many errors, to be attributed to haste, have been corrected much mat ter, of a local interest merely, has been omitted, and several narratives, among which are those entitled Eugene Aram, The Force of Fear, The Unlawful Gift, etc., have been added. In addition to the fact that these tales are authentic, it is certain that their aim and tendency are good they are pure, and they are instructive as well as interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.