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> Both men start crying like little boys, and change their stories so many times that the magistrate quickly realizes that they have nothing to do with the stol
by kmoser 2y ago
> Both men start crying like little boys, and change their stories so many times that the magistrate quickly realizes that they have nothing to do with the stolen painting. Both are soon released.
I would have expected that behavior to make them seem guilty enough to warrant holding them until their stories are thoroughly examined.
- NikkiA 2y agoPresumably there was more than the few days that the comic hints at, between the theft and them getting caught, thus the magistrate probably thought they were so terrible at being deceptful or keeping a story straight, that there was no way they'd not have been caught the same day as the theft. Or to put it another way, it was a different, simpler time.