ACQUITTED BY MACHINERY
LIE-DETECTOR IN COURT L'n'ted Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrigtr 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 23-year-old defendant was truthful when he denied the crime.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20463, 1 April 1938, Page 7
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