Day riddle: how to stay alive, If you already stands above the Executioner?

In a state was the custom. Each offender is sentenced to death, dragged before the execution lot, which gave him hope for salvation. dipped two pieces of paper in the box, one with the word "life", the other with the word "death." If the convicted person first took out a piece of paper, he received a pardon, if he had the misfortune to take out a piece of paper with the word "death", the sentence is to be executed.

A man who lives in this country, were enemies who slandered him and made sure that the court has sentenced to death an accident. Moreover, the enemies did not want to leave the innocent convicted is not the slightest possibility of escape. The night before they pulled out a piece of paper from a box with the word "life" and replaced it with a piece of paper with the word "death." So what would a piece of paper or stretched convicted, he could not escape death.
So thought his enemies. But he had friends who became known machinations of enemies. They had time to warn the convict that the two lots in the box are the words "death". Friends urged the judges to open an unfortunate criminal forgery of his enemies, and to insist on survey box with a drawing of lots.

But, to their astonishment, the convict asked friends to keep trick enemies in the strictest confidence and assured that then he will certainly be saved. Friends took him for a madman ...
On the morning of the convicted person, without saying anything to the judges of the plot of his enemies, and drew lots - was released

! QUESTION: How did he managed so well to get out of a seemingly hopeless situation

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Pulling lots convicted did so: took out a piece of paper from a box and no one showing smiling ate it. Judges, wishing to establish that it was written on a piece of paper was destroyed, removed from the rest of the paper box with the word "death." Consequently, - says the judge - to be eaten by a piece of paper was written "life" (they do not know anything about the plot). Cooking innocently convicted certain death, the enemies have brought him salvation.





: Fishki.net

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