Chapter 3340 The interrogation begins

Colonel Dillon is being held under strict confidentiality.

After all, no one knows what consequences this will have.

External reports are that Colonel Dillon was involved in a car accident while driving. Although his life was not in danger, he needed to be rushed to Manila for treatment.

The 19th Cavalry Regiment was temporarily commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Capri until the superiors decided on a new commander.

At this time, Colonel Dillon was quickly transferred to Manila.

Also taken away with him were many close associates of the colonel, including Major Doman, Captain Ajit and others.

Everything is ready.

In Manila Port, a special interrogation agency has been set up.

In order to ensure that the entire process is fair, the presiding officer will be Brigadier General Pate, and General MacArthur's plenipotentiary Mr. Slain will be responsible for observing and ensuring that there will be no problems during the interrogation process.

The interrogators were served by "Lieutenant Colonel Charles" Meng Shaoyuan and Major Hendlip.

MacArthur also made a special decision to invite Brigadier General Redondo, chief of staff of the 37th Infantry Division, to serve as a special listening officer.

Just like Colonel Dillon, Redondo was also an old subordinate of General Patton and had known Colonel Dillon for many years.

It must be said that although MacArthur was overjoyed and arrogant, he was still very politically savvy.

He knew that if someone from Patton was not arranged during the interrogation, the fairness of the interrogation would most likely be questioned in the future.

After all, this event is relatively big.

In the process of fully recovering the Philippines, such a vicious incident occurred, and it also involved a senior military officer of the US military. This was something no one wanted to see.

Any small mistake may have unpredictable consequences.

The interrogation began the day after Colonel Dillon was transferred to the Port of Manila.

Redondo looked very serious.

He never imagined that Colonel Dillon would be involved in such an incident.

Colonel Dillon did not deny the murder, but insisted that he killed it accidentally.

Moreover, he didn't even know that the other party was Tucker.

"How do you explain these letters?" Major Hendlip took out the letters.

"This was not written by me." Colonel Dillon said without hesitation: "The handwriting is indeed my handwriting, but the content must have nothing to do with me."

Meng Shaoyuan listened calmly.

Of course Colonel Dillon would deny it, because all these letters were forged by himself.

It's very simple, just ask Ajit to take the handwriting of Colonel Dillon and imitate it.

It's easy to frame someone, but it's very difficult to prove one's innocence.

Handwriting identification?

This has been around since the time of Qin Shi Huang in China.

However, as time went by, by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, China's handwriting identification had fallen far behind Western countries.

The best handwriting identification experts in Western countries are basically based in Germany.

Such as Ludwig Klages, Robert Sodijk, Rudolf Popper, Robert Hayes.

Especially Rudolf and Robert, who were still traveling with Meng Shaoyuan.

One is a psychiatrist and the other is a psychopsychologist.

It is they who have made rapid progress in handwriting identification.

However, now in Europe and the United States, handwriting identification is not an important science.

It will be after World War II that handwriting identification will usher in its true golden period.

And now?

If Colonel Dillon wants to prove that he did not write these letters, he must send the letters back to the United States and find someone to authenticate them.

This period is extremely long, one year, or two years?

Only God knows.

At the same time, even if there is an appraisal, the wording of the appraisal is mostly ambiguous.

Because at this time, in American courts, the opinion of handwriting identification cannot influence the result, but is only used as a reference opinion.

No handwriting examiner would get himself into trouble.

Therefore, the crime cost of forging handwriting during this period was very low, but the cost of solving the crime was high!

Many of the backlogged cases in many police departments in the United States are related to forged signatures or letters.

Meng Shaoyuan himself is a psychology expert and knows handwriting very well.

Even now that the science of handwriting identification has been perfected, it is not that easy to identify a carefully imitated handwriting.

This requires the use of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Adler's personality psychology, Swiss psychologist Jung's psychological typology, French psychologist Leson's personality type theory and empirical analysis methods to summarize the Western alphabet

There are more than 300 characteristics in the text related to the personality and mentality of the writer.

Such as pressure, speed, size, direction, layout, form, continuity, motion, etc.

Different combinations of these characteristics reveal various psychological differences in personality.

This is just the Western alphabet.

What about Chinese characters?

The amount of work becomes even more complicated.

Therefore, Colonel Dillon knew that these letters were fake, but he had no way to prove it!

Having long expected what Colonel Dillon would say, Major Hendlip put down the letters and picked up a stack of documents: "So, you can't deny these, can you?"

The military policeman brought the document to Colonel Dillon.

Colonel Dillon's expression changed.

These are the lists of smuggled items signed by Captain Agit after the 19th Cavalry Regiment was stationed in Spabanos.

This was originally used for future reconciliation purposes.

But before the account could be reconciled and destroyed, it had already fallen into the hands of the interrogation team.

"These are signed by me." Colonel Dillon knew that this was something he could not deny.

The documents were delivered to Pate and Redondo.

"Dilon, you have violated military law." Even as his good friend, Redondo had to sigh and said: "These are enough to send you to a military court."

And he could tell that Dillon's handwriting on the document was the same as the handwriting in those letters.

In his heart, he had basically concluded that Dillon was indeed protecting the criminal named Tucker.

"Everyone is smuggling." Colonel Dillon looked unconvinced: "Why can't it be done in Spabanos! Even if General Patton commanded..."

"That's enough!" Redondo interrupted.

It's too much. This is very much too much.

They are all smuggling, but how can you involve General Patton?

Colonel Dillon also realized that he had made a mistake and quickly shut up.

"Charles, it's your turn," Major Hendlip said in a low voice.

If possible, Meng Shaoyuan would not even say a word.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to give the reins to Major Hendlip?

Meng Shaoyuan picked up a file: "Colonel, do you know Sarni?"

here we go again!

Colonel Dillon's face was full of displeasure: "I have told you before, I know Sarni, but her death has nothing to do with me."

"Sarni?"

Redondo frowned.

Major Hendlip immediately whispered briefly in his ear about the case.

Redondo's brows knitted together tightly.

Dillon, what on earth are you doing?

Why have you gotten into so many troubles?

"But we have witnesses, Doman."

"That's a liar!" growled Colonel Dillon.
To be continued...