Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most widely known ''lie detector," the polygraph developed by Law Professor Leonarde Keeler of Northwestern University's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, has been useful mainly in extracting confessions from wrongdoers after they were confronted with the evidence of their emotional disturbance. Used by 52 Chicago banks on their employes, the polygraph has turned up many a petty pilferer. Corroborative evidence based on the polygraph has been admitted four times in U. S. courts of law. Last year Governor Comstock of Michigan pardoned a convict who steadfastly denied the murder with which he was charged and successfully passed...
Conducted around London's storied Scotland Yard last week, U. S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings mourned: "It is terribly difficult to write about crime without dramatizing it in such a way as to make it a fascinating subject...
During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite...
...David Paul. Camden, N. J. bank messenger, disappeared with $40.000, was thought to have run away until his lack of preparation for flight seemed suspicious. Detective Parker found that Paul was murdered by old cronies whose crime was almost perfect...
...killed John Brunen, circus-owner, to get his business was suspected by Psychologist Parker because his alibi was so good. Innocent people usually do not remember exactly wrhat they did on the night of a crime...