so frightened by the threat of that kind of publicity that they will gladly pay, if they can, any amount to get off without too much noise.

Peeking-cop Richard Roskell struck gold when he picked up Vincent Corsall, 39, and Richard deBartolo, 22, after having allegedly watched their "indecencies" for a half hour in a New York City subway john last month. Both pleaded not guilty. Atty. Jules Kolodny, for the older defendent, described his client as "a man with a very important position in Oswego" (upstate N. Y. town, pop., 20,000.)

Which seemed to annoy Magistrate Rueben Levy: "We have no secrets in this courtroom. What does he do?"

"He is the mayor of Oswego and he teaches in the public school system, Kolodny replied.

That was for the papers!

Back in Oswego, where Libera! Party Mayor Corsall had recently won office, his corruption-tainted opponents got busy nailing things down well before the trial ten days later in NYC's Gambler's Court.

Trial opened with photos of men's room, the #1 booth in which the man was alleged to have touched the man, the pipe tunnels and vent-slits used by the peepingcops. Detectives Roskell and Crews (as usual, number of arresting officers increased to two for court's benefit) described their pinchstraining Judge Malbin's credulity regarding their ability to hear and see so much thru such tiny peepholes. Officer Roskell hedged that while he hadn't actually heard certain things he'd first said he heard, he could read lips. Judge Malbin tested him on this. Officer flunked the test. Roskell testified Mayor Corsall tried to buy him off; Officer Crews adding that Corsall said he'd consulted a psychiatrist about "this

sort of thing."

After visiting the men's room, to examine the hidden accomodations, Judge Malbin resumed the trial, heard Corsall's explanation that he'd entered one booth, found no paper, and moved to another, corroborating de Bartolo's testimony that when he entered later, he had washed his hands, found no paper in any booth except where Corsall sat. DeBartolo, assistant to a TV producer, had reached in to get some paper, and at that point, our dauntless guardian of public morality made his arrest.

Prosecution repeatedly sought to introduce evidence supplied by Corsall's political opponents, such as that Corsall, who taught hi-school. science, had known an Oswego student who was expelled on homosexual charge. Ruling out such hearsay and irrelevancies, Judge Malbin said that "very sharp conflict of testimony . . . had created a reasonable doubt," and expressing profound regret at great harm such a charge had probably done the victims, acquitted them.

Anti-Corsall members of Oswego Board of Education scheduled another "trial" but this hearing was interrupted when Mayor's fosterson, the night after the acquital, was fatally injured by three youths who intervened in what they mistakenly thought was a fight between young Corsall and his girlfriendwho had stumbled getting out of a car. The coroner, with astonishing haste, declared young Corsall's death "accidental" and "closed the case" immediately.

The Mayor's position in politics and as a teacher has since been reassured.

DISCUSSION

Dr. Karl Bowman, formerly head of San Francisco's Langley-Porter Clinic, and author of a state financed