SCIENCE AND CRIME
1 MECHANICAL LIE-DETECTOR. Leads to acquittal of hold- ? UP SUSPECT. Received March 31, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, March 30. For the first time in the history of American jurisprudence, a hold-up suspect was acquitted on the verdict of a mechanical lie-detector, whose inventor testified that the 25-year-old defendant was truthful when he denied the crime.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 77, 1 April 1938, Page 7
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