Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- Tricks ricks T No Treat for Murderer By Will Bernard May the Police Use Uso Trickery To Obtain a Confession n wealthy recluse was found slain lain In his garage one night and suspicion fell feU upon a woman who lived nearby However the police did cUd not arrest her at once Instead a detective called at her house house- pretending to be a cosmetics sales sales- man He lie managed to draw the woman into conversation and she confided that she Iho was in hot water He lie replied Tell TeU me all JUDGE I l V about abou It Ive I've go got a magic potion that will keep you out of trouble 1 Thereupon the tha woman conte confessed Sled the murder murder and and of course was as immediately arrested At the trial she ahe protested that the confession had been obtained by by trickery However the court said that didn't matter and found the woman guilty The judge pointed out that tl the trick was Wat designed merely to brin bring out the truth An actor was wai divorced by his ht wile wife on grounds of immoral Unmoral con con- duct At the trial the main battle was for tor custody of the couples couple's 12 lZ year old daughter It seems that the mother bad been rather careful and firm with the girl while girl while the father tather had bad pampered her and humored bum hum ored eked her in every everl possible WI way wiy As AI might be expected she told the court that bat she Ibe hoe chose to go with her ber father tather But Dut in spite of this preference the Judge granted custody custody cus cus- tody o of the child to the mother for fortha forthe forthe the tha good ol of the tho girl herself A man who lived in a small apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment decided to move to larger quarters Since his lease still had six months to run he subleased the place to a woman woman alter after getting get ting the consent of the landlord A few weeks later the woman skipped town When the landlord demanded that the man keep up the rent payments be he flatly refused re ro on fused fused on the ground that the landlord land lord had bad consented to the sublease However the tha court court felt differently and h held ld the man responsible for forthe forthe forthe the womans woman's act Must a Will Be Written in Ink While thumbing through A magazine maga tine sine in a dentists dentist's waiting wafting room a aman aman aman man came upon a form torm for making out a will On the spur of ot the moment moment moment mo mo- ment he be seized a pencil pend filled out the form torm and tucked it in la his pocket A few tew weeks later the tho man died When his hi widow found out that all aU her husbands husband's property had WHEN YOU cp IM t I IC C been left len to his bus brother she he went to court to contest the validity of the will She argued that a document of at such Importance is no good loed unless made out in la Ink However the court disagreed and held heW the tha will wW valid The Judge said that even even though the man had been foolish to use us a pencil the will was wu Just a- a legal legale M at if Lf in to indelible ink |