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Post by Michael on Jan 10, 2012 20:27:25 GMT -5
RE: Orville N. NorcrossThe town of Pemberton is in Burlington County. A section which has jealously guarded its stock, its backwater and its early American Anglo-Saxon customs in a sprawling section of woodland and boggy fields. Norcross is typical of this stock. Moody, rough-spoken, a chess-player's mind, a suspicious tongue, 8th-grade education, an astonishingly capable business-man, a loyal and jealous friend of a very few number of people.
Parker has respected Norcross and befriended him. [W. G. Bray, 1-14-38]
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Post by Michael on Jan 12, 2012 17:13:25 GMT -5
Several years ago there was a murder in the Pines in an isolated spot. Norcross happened to pass driving a buggy filled with patent medicines which he sold to the illiterate Pineys. He noted a number of casual details. When the murder was known and it was evident there was no trace, Norcross told Parker with astonishing accuracy what he had observed at a certain time in that locality.
Parker solved the case with ensuing publicity.
Whereas, I am still confused on minor details of the hegira of the ladder (a Machiavellian piece of work as far as criminal detail is concerned) a cross-examination of Norcross to this day produces the same meticulous and accurate description of obscure events. I am by this that Norcross is not creating something out of thin air; that accuracy is the basis of his unusual testimony. [Bray]
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