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Of Scotland Yardxx-xx-xx xxx Saved By A Piece Of Paperaka Identi
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The view of a photo of a criminal trial hinge on the question of identification. The more one reflects on this point, the more one marvels of the extraordinary powers of observation and memory that the most unlikely people seem to possess.
For instance, a murder has been committed, and a passerby has seen a man hurry away from the scene. It's probably nighttime, and he's had no more than a glimpse of somebody under a street lamp.
Yet he's able to say quite positively that he was tall and thin in his middle fifties with a mottled complexion, a broken nose, and a mole under his left eye. Moreover, he's able to describe his dress right down to his book, not only does he tell the priestess, but he swears it again in court.
Now, this is very good if it helps to send a guilty man to the gallows, but even with the best and most honest intentions, anyone's liable to make a mistake, and a mistake of that kind may have tragic results.
Let me tell you, such a case. and how only from nearest fluke, say the grave miscarriage of justice. For many years, Dean Milner Spintzer had been a well-known figure in the district of Blotty, Ferry Dundee.
The sole Addis of a brother, a bloke, is a back-o-man of that, sir. He had since his death nine years before lived alone in the family home. Elm Grove House, a 14-roomed mansion standing in about two acres of 63 drowned.
Now despite her solitude and her advancing years, she was a woman with her left for A close brigade is perhaps a trifle girish for a woman of 65, and at least twice a year it was a habit to spend two or three months in London.
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