26 Friday, January 13, 1978 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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By HY LEWIS
Guest Columnist
Eugene Block is the au-
thor of 13 books dealing
mainly with his interests in
criminology and penology,
which stems from his days
as a police reporter for vari-
ous San Francisco news-
papers.
His latest book, "Hyp-
nosis: A New Tool in Crime
Detection," has just been
_ released by the publisher,
'David McKay _Co. of New
York, and according to the
reviews, may soon become
a best-seller, inter-
nationally.
Hypnosis has played a
major part in some of the
best-known crimes of this
century — the kidnapping of
Jimmy Hoffa, the assassina-
tion of Robert Kennedy .. .
it was effectively used by F.
Lee Bailey in the Sam Shep-
pard murder case and the
trial of the Boston Stran-
gler.*
Hypnosis was one of the
important factors in obtain-
ing precise information by
Israel in the Entebbe sur-
prise attack which released
the incarcerated hostages.
Some 26 cases regarding
the use of hypnosis in mod-
ern day crime investigation
are written up in this most
fascinating book and includ-
es my role as a hypnotist in
assisting the late 'attorney,
Harry Anbender, in his
probe of a murder suspect
he was assigned to defend
by Judge Ricca. The court
order allowing the use of a
hypnotist by an attorney
had established a 'first' in
the state of Michigan, a
precedent.
This is how it happened ...
Harry H. Anbender, a
prominent and highly re-
spected Detroit attorney,
was far from pleased with
the assignment he had ac-
cepted from Judge John A.
Ricca during a brief tele-
phone conversation. He had
been requested to defend
without fee an accused mur-
derer who vigorously pro-
tested his innocence and
was without funds to engage
counsel.
The 24-year-old prisoner,
who, with three others, was
accused of a drug store
holdup on Detroit's east side
on the night of Oct. 24, 1960,
in which a pharmacist had
been fatally shot. Dis-
cussing the case with the
prisoner, Anbender won-
dered on what he could base
a defense. The suspect could
offer no clear-cut alibi nor
any helpful information . .
the attorney had only his
emphatic statements that
he was in no way involved
in the crime . . . the prison-
er was so shook-up with the
implications of the case that
he couldn't remember his
whereabouts at the time of
the crime.

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`No Palestinians'

Something in the young
man's manner and person-
ality appealed to Anbender
and as the interview contin-
ued he became convinced in
his own mind that he was
telling the truth. "Would
you be willing to submit to a
lie-detector test or to have
yourself hypnotized?" the
lawyer inquired. The an-
swer was yes . . . that he
would do anything, he was
willing to submit to any test
to prove his-innocence.
It was then that Anbender .
called me to offer my serv-
ices as an expert to help
resolve his client's in-
nocence or guilt. After the
court order had been sign-
ed, we visited with the pris-
oner at the jail and began
what was to be three days
of interrogation or six full
hours of tape recordings of
the suspect under hypnosis.

Virtually every known
technique was used to elicit
meaningful information to
establish an alibi . . . the
last hypnosis was fruitful
with what is called, 'post-
hypnotic response.' The
young man's eyes opened
and his 'face lit up like a
candle, "I've got the name
of the witness" he cried.
The amnesia was broken.
Now fully awake, he
spoke the name of a man
who, he said, had been with
him and the other suspects
on their 'way to Chicago at
the exact time of the phar-
macy robbery. At last he
had produced from his sub-
conscious mind a clue that
might be helpful.

We checked the name
from the police files and
found it. We reached him by
telephone and were invited
to his home. The witness
declared that the suspect
was right . . . that they had
all been driving to Chicago
at the precise time in-
volved. "They promised me
a 'fix' when we got there."
"Why didn't you tell this to
the authorities?" Anben'der
demanded. The reason was
self-evident.

The attorney now had
enough information to go to
trial. The trial however was
a fiasco . . . even though
Anbender had glaring facts
and truths about his client's
innocence . . . the female
suspect (one of the four
indicted) gave false testi-
mony on the stand, and im-
plicated the other three in
the murder case. It wasn't
too long after, that the real
murderer was found.

Anbender who was relent-
less in his pursuit of justice
by virtue • of the findings
under hypnosis was happy
when the first-degree mur-
der charge was dropped.
This, in brief, is one wf the
26 cases in Block's new
book.

BEIRUT—Lebanese Pres-
ident Elias Sarkis told fore-
ign diplomats last week he
would not allow Palesti-
nians to establish per-
manent settlements in
Lebanon as part of a Middle
East peace.

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