Show THOUGHT SHE SAW THREE story of a woman who thought she told the truth it ou ask me whether we lawyers ever encourage aid and abet untruth falness said an elderly attorney at a dinner recently I 1 can only ask as a reply does anyone know what truth isa does any man really know when he is telling ita I 1 had a rather curious case once a few years ago 1 won t say whether it waa a murder or a dl voice but the clearing of my ell ent the defendant depended entirely on his ability to prove that when he walked down a corridor of a certain summer hotel he was accod palled by two persons it happened that he was seen by the housel beeper of the hotel a woman of more than ordinary intelligence and she insisted that the e were three in the party and not dimply two as the prosecution claimed it was impossible to shake her testimony and we tarried the day the housekeeper died a year or later I 1 heard of it through her priest he commented on the fact that she iad always taken great satisfaction in the thought that her testimony cleared my silent she was he said and he spoke from a confessors knowledge one of the most truthful persons he had ever met I 1 told my client what the priest said the next time we met he smiled she was lying all the while he said she see three of us be cause there ver only two |