Norfolk Post Corp. v. Wright

Milton T. Wright was arrested in Norfolk on July 14, 1922. The circumstances attendant upon this arrest so far as they are relevant are as follows:

Just preceding this date there had been a series of burglaries in Colonial Place and Riverview, residential ■sections of Norfolk lying just south of Lafayette river near each other but not contiguous.

Several special officers were detailed to cope with this outbreak of lawlessness, one of them was detective Leon Nowitzky. To him had been reported the recent looting of the home of P. W. Powell, east 39th street, in Riverview. While on this special…