People v. Best

Some persons who, near midnight, had returned from a dance, were chatting for a moment in front of the dwelling of one of them. They became suspicious of the appearance and. conduct of a man upon the porch of a vacant house across the street. One of them, Clifford Whittemore, having an automobile, went for a police officer, returned with him, *143and they found upon the porch the dead body of Vera Schneider, who in life had been a young unmarried woman employed in Pontiac as a telephone operator. Handkerchiefs were tied about her throat. There was blood upon her face. Other police officers were…