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Show . THE READERS COURTROOM : . Tricks, No Treat for Murderer I By Will Bernard, LL.B I May the Police Use Trickery To Obtain a Confession? A wealthy recluse was found slain in his garage one night, and suspicion fell upon a woman who lived nearby. However, the police did not arrest her at once. Instead, a detective called at her house pretending to be a cosmetics salesman. sales-man. He managed to draw the woman into conversation, and she confided that she was "in hot water." He replied: "Tell me all A man who lived in a small apartment apart-ment decided to move to larger quarters. Since his lease still had six months to run, he subleased the place to a woman 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, he flatly refused re-fused on the ground that the landlord land-lord had consented to the sublease. However, the court felt differently and held the man responsible for the woman's act. Must a Will Be Written in Ink? While thumbing through a magazine maga-zine in a dentist's waiting room, a man came upon a form for making out a will. On the spur of the moment mo-ment he seized a pencil, filled out ( JUDGE, I BE&J ) y fe, . HOODWINKED J Zy, f)n 1 mm the form, and tucked it in his pocket. A few weeks later the man died. When his widow found out that all her husband's property had ti rjA-.'i ..'.'.!.l...;.!..l.....!.'.'4... WHEN YOU L--:i -it " s ; FINISH YOUR V jfr- Jti ' will, cowe in M J"1! about it. I've got a magic potion ! that will keep you out of trouble!" Thereupon the woman confessed the murder and, of course, was immediately arrested. At the trial, she protested that the confession ! had been obtained by trickery. However, the court said that didn't matter and found the woman guilty. The judge pointed out that the trick was designed merely to bring out the truth. An actor was divorced by his wife, on grounds of immoral conduct. con-duct. At the trial, the main battle was for custody of the couple's 12-year-old daughter. It seems that the mother had been rather careful and firm with the girl while the father had pampered her and humored hum-ored her in every possible way. ' As might be expected, she told the court that she chose to go with her father. But in spite of this preference, the judge granted cus-1 cus-1 tody of the child to the mother for the good of the girl herself. been left to his brother, she went to court to contest the validity of the will. She argued that a document of such importance is no good unless made out in ink. However, the court disagreed and held the will valid. The judge said that, even though the man had been foolish to use a pencil, the will was just as "legal" as if wirtten in indelible ink. |
