Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Manhattan Well Murder Trial" video.

  1. A true story for you which chimes with this video and the previous one on chickens. In England in, I believe, in the 18th century a man was having a problem with one of his servants stealing from him, so he came up with a scheme to find the culprit. First he placed a large black cockrol in the middle of a darkened room. He then told his servants that they must each take it in turns to go into the room where they must stroke the cockrol before leaving by another door. By doing this the cockrol would be able to tell who was guilt. So each one of the servants went into the room and sure enough the culprit was found with the help of the cockrol. You see the cockrol, which as I said was black, was covered in soot. So when you touched it you got soot on your hands. The guilty person fearing he would be caught had not touched the bird so had clean hands. Ironic about the clean hands. Usually this refers to someone who is innocent.
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  2. Surely that would be a horse drawn sleight chase. Now that has got to be worth watching. One of the pursuing sleights doing a sliding turn taking out a row of snow men. Carrots and coal all over the place. 😊
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  3. My thoughts as well.
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  4. Thanks for that. With so little evidence showing the accused could have commit the murder you have to wonder why it went to court.
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  5. The witness did not say she saw them leave together. She just said she thought it was him.
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