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Monday, May 14, 2007

Breaking



'About 20 years ago, the Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware ran a brief story about the arrest of 33-year-old William J. Frawley.

He was wielding a large knife and threatening to kill a passer-by, the newspaper reported. He was charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

The charge was dropped shortly after the incident, according to court records in Delaware. That's why it didn't show up on the background check, a search expert said.'


The expensive recruitment firm hired by the university didn't discover this arrest. The local newspaper in Fredericksburg, however, recently managed to do it in this clever way:

'A Google search done by The Free Lance-Star shortly after Frawley's local arrests turned up a reference to the charge against him in Delaware.'



Refund time.
Posted at: 5/14/2007 05:28:00 AM