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Show day last Winter a hollow --cheeked, balding wisp of a man out of Hew, York's Danneroora Penitentiary and blinked unbellerlngly at a strange new world. He was Louis Hofl-nand had Just served eleven years .for a murder he did not commit. Fy-e- d after a rigorous campaign by the New York Edward Mowery, Hoffner had entered prison as a young man and was leaving It middle-age- d and wasted beyond his years by the mental anguish of serving time while knowing he was completely innocent. There was a big stir in the press for a few days, a TV appearance, and then Louis Hoflner was once more a forgotten man Just as he had been during those long years at Dannemora. "A bad break, coudnt happen again in a million years," people said. But could it? Listen to what Robert Daru, well known "counsel for the' underdoe " has tci sav- '"I believe that every major prison in the country contains at least one innocent man. Some probably have many more." This is a sweeping statement by a man who should know what he's talking about. Daru has served as an assistant district attorney in New York, as chief counsel to the first Senate Crime Investigation Committee; he helped draft the Lindbergh Kidnapping Act and the Public Enemy Act. He is no and he has put his own share of men behind bars. To Illustrate how Justice can miscarry, Daru likes to cite a case In which he succeeded in exonerating another innocent man Bertram Campbell. Campbell was a victim of one of the main causes of false Imprisonment, Inaccurate identification. During the early years of the war, Campbell, a Wall Street stock salesman, was Indicted and convicted for forgery. The state put on a parade of witnesses who were "convinced" Campbell was the guilty man. They'd know him anywhere. As a result, Campbell went to Sing Sing and probably would be there still had not one Alexander D. L. Thiele, a Chicago forger, been picked up. In the course of Thiele's interrogation, it developed that he, and not Campbell, was guilty of the New York crime. Daru went to bat for Campbell and In the course of breaking down the state's original case, he came across some startling facts: The witnesses now admitted they had been confused by moustaches dubbed onto the photographs into thinking Campbell was the man seen at the New York bank where the forgery took place. Key witnesses told of having been "coached." Even the detective who arrested Campbell said that he had always been doubtful of his guilt. One by one, Daru popped the toy balloons of evidence which had sent Campbell to Jail. In August, 1948, he was released. The state compensated him $115,000 for his lost years at Sing Srng. A short time later, he died. ONE er World-Telegra- soft-head- "do-good- ed er" so-cert- ain - . f c.e vpri IT I by WALTER OSBORNE HcWi This pktvr m Lovis xwbwoiK et lot k fail towcfc4l milliaM of hearts. wht Uav |