CONVICTED BY DICTOGRAPH
HIDDEN IN MURDERERS' CELL DISCUSSION ON CRIME RECORDED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright DAUPHIN (Manitoba), November 24. (Received November 25, at 2 p.m.) Convicted through a dictograph hidden in their cell, Peter Kortens, Daniel Prytuk, and Daniel Kanuka were sentenced to hang for fatally beating an eighty-one-year-old farm woman, Anna Cot-tick, during a burglary after her husband had been clubbed into unconsciousness. This was the first time in Manitoba that dictograph records were admitted as evidence. The police listened-m while the accused discussed the crime, agreeing that they should not have done it. The police stenographer recorded every word, and to ensure accuracy another stenographer made a similar recording in an adjoining room.
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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 10
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115CONVICTED BY DICTOGRAPH Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 10
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