The arrest of such a man often presents great legal
difficulties which the detectives overcome by various
practical methods. Of course, no officer without a search
warrant has a right to enter a house or an apartment. A
man's house is his castle. Mayor Gaynor, when a judge, in a
famous opinion (more familiarly known in the lower world even
than the Decalogue) laid down the law unequivocally and
emphatically in this regard. Thus, in the Fisher case, the
defendant having been arrested on the street, the detectives
desired to search the apartment of the family with which he
lived. They did this by first inducing the tenant to open
the door and, after satisfying themselves that they were in
the right place, ordering the occupants to get in line and
"march" from one room to another while they rummaged for
evidence. "Of course, we had no right to do it, but they
didn't know we hadn't!" said the boss.
But frequently the defendant knows his rights just as well as
the police.
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