LIES "SPOTTED" BY MACHINERY.

Shannon News, 31 October 1924, Page 4

LIES "SPOTTED" BY MACHINERY.

INVESTOR'S WITNESS IN £IO,OOO SUIT. Mr August J. Vollmer, known.as the "Golden Rule" Police Chief of Berkley, California, who 'has. devised an instrument "to register human emotions," offers to sumbit himself to a test of his invention to a suit for £lO,000 for breach of promise brought against him by Mrs Caroline Lex, of L,os Angeles, on her learning that he had jurt married another woman. He says the test will reveal whether or not he is telling the truth when he denies all the allegations of Mrs Lex, who, he says "is either mentally ill or the fool of evil-doers of the underworld, who hate me for the success with which I have pursued them and confounded their knavish tricks." Mrs Lex also offers to undergo a test by his "lie detector," though she does not believe in it Mrs Lex asserts that she was induced to love the police chief as a result of their mutual interest in criminology and psychology, and of his skill in the art of love-making.

Mrs Vollmer, the bride, laughs at Mrs Lex's stories.

"Love-making such as she talks of tallies with nothing I have known," she says. My husband's methods are quite different. I've just been married to him, so, of course, I know all about them."