Word: otterbourg
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...Boston, President Edwin M. Otterbourg of the New York County Lawyers' Association proposed a twelve-point code to regulate news reporting of criminal cases. He denounced the present state of affairs as "the law of the jungle." Key clause in Otterbourg's code: "Statements that a prisoner has confessed to a crime should not be made [in the press] until proof of a confession has been received in evidence at the trial . . ."* Three days later, Boston's press answered Otterbourg in Page One headlines blaring the out-of-court confession of pretty, 25-year-old Stenographer Mildred...