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The Mistake of the Machine

The Father Brown Classics, Episode 17

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The Mistake of the Machine

By: G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
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The Mistake of the Machine is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the Temple Gardens about sunset; and their neighbourhood or some such accidental influence had turned their talk to matters of legal process. From the problem of the licence in cross-examination, their talk strayed to Roman and mediaeval torture, to the examining magistrate in France and the Third Degree in America.

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