Word: polygraphers
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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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...