The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

either, for in that case they cannot tell the
truth.
You can talk as much as you please
about the truer moral calibre of woman's
character; II is all nonsense They may be
fascinating, charming and all that and
their inferiority in physical stamina may
rightly command q mans Difference and
support; but that gives no reason to think
them more capable than men of telling the
truth. Even If they were conscientious
and wished TO be veracIous their excitable
emotions and their loose Imagination
would lncapacitate them for giving q cor
rect version of the affair at issue.
This conclusion has nothing to do with
their character viewed from any other
point than that of truthfulnesss I cannot
see that it makes any difference whether
they are high or low by birth. ignorant or
cultivated, fortunate or unfortunate.
should credit the man. The fact is that
IN most instances where women have testi-
| fed before me they were interested parties
| For that matter woman, through the con-
slant exercise of her emotions and affec-
| tions, or what not, can hardly fail to be
! swayed by interest on, one side or the other,
and that in edition to the other elements
in tie matter makes her comparatively
unServiceable Witnessn
RECORDER sNYTH.
There was rather more comfort for the
! Gentler sex In the words with which the
famous Recorder Smyth answered the cues
/ ton. For it must be remembered that
| with popular prejudice, where it is. such
words as the following support woman's
! cause:
ut seems to me that no one man has a
right 10 formulate general principle from
his single experiences, F." said the recorder.
| Mime has extended over great many
4 years and l can say frankly and empGati
cally that | am unable to see that there is
any difference Women are certainly fully
as truthful as men and l do not think that
the testimony of either sex has more
/ weight than the other upon either Judge OF
jury"
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
District-Attorney De Lancey Nicol
smiled queer smile and looked knowingly
down at his desk. After a moment-'']
don't see,' he said, chow any distinction
can be drawn. There are men liars anc
women liars, but | have not been able t
see that on the grand average truthfulnesi
is matter of sex. I have known many in
stances where women, testifying in cases
that involved husband or d brother or s
sweetheart have committed rank perjury
and stuck to it to the end and, on the Other
hand, plenty of men have committed equally
rank perjury on much more trivial provoca
tions where there would be no such call:
upon sympathy or loyalty. No. there is M
distinguishable difference between the
sexes in the matter of veracity 1t all de-
ponds upon the individual man or womer
whether he or she can tell, or will tell, the
truth in the witness box"
DO you observe any difference between
men and women as to capacity for telling
the truth when they are not personally Oh
: directly concerned in the issue!"
mot the least. Sex has nothing to d.
with it. The intelligence of the witness i.
the determining influence. and an intelli
gent woman will tell as accurate story al
man of equal intelligence. The effect O
the woman's testimony upon jury may b,
little greater than that Of man, bu
other things being equal. l have found tina
woman is just as credible as witness o
the other SEX
, At this point Mr.. Nicou sent for one o
his assistants, Mr.. Mcintyre and put th
question to him. Mr.. Mcintyre replied
, without hesitation