The Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 156, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 1923 Page: 32 of 42
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the Id—tity of « Mans Slayor in a Quarrel O*«r^ w.
In Case 73 the Toulon police
had in their toils a notoriqus
counterfeiter of bank notes.
They felt sure they had the
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teriohgist. Using
a Microscope
2 in Crime-
: Detectio.
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Co ft.‘m Labor Agitator,, Which Proved
That He had Been Implicated in a
Textile MilKiot.
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one term in prison, and his skill
on the date of the
murder, which oc-
curred shortly before
midnight, he had
dined at their house
and had spent the entire night there, retir-
ing to his room after playing bezique (a
French card game) until one o’clock in
the morning.
with the coat of the suspect.
In each ease the dust yielded
quantities of tiny particles of
towdust and wood fibre, and
their complete similarity was
such that the photographs were
a vital element in the convic-
tion which followed.
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bind him »
his estate
and negleet
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nightly this
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of the load
which they
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have say g
know their
had any set
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no relief t.
married the
trousered b
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the family,
and what I
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he was sent
bench as th
be let la, as
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called ter l
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at to diapo
never siters
they had Stl
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The police felt that they had the right
man, bu faced the certainty of seeing him
acquitted for lack of evidence if they
forced the trial. They called in Dr. Lo- * right
card, and what followed is a splendid
practical example of the effectiveness of
his method.
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fed to death in her
suburb.
bank clerk by the
bin, was sumpected
• At the prelimi-
man, bed it beaten in a sack, got womeof
the dust partidies, and put Shem under
the misroecope. Bo then did the same
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In another eharacterietle case. Series ».
hl a qtarrei over a woman, and one of the
men.had begnkilled by being struck m
the band. Previqus to the fatal blew the
condition of the locality showed that the
two men had struggled, wrestled and
ruled on the ground
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Bita pf Chemicel ryatala and Dust, Grenly
a deeon of them on the point of a pin agterintie eryatals of a trade mark brand
pmson“rot men to the Euillotine aad to of.face powder which Marte.Irntoi is had
la tho*ted days they used to beat a prie- u The Wood alone might not have suMeed.
2netto.make him confeza. Nowtheyput a combined clues constituted evi-
his gietbos in a teacher bag and bear thorny denee as conclusive that, there was no
d A little of the durt beaten from peape: Gourbin made m complete eon
Aeoat, a tiny bit of eer-war taker from fasten
the ruupest, or • spek of dirt ffom bo-
BUM finemail-these are sometimes
) muficient to reconstruct a whole
by Magnifying Blood
Spots and Bits of Metal
50,000 Times is
Breaking Alibis 5 1
and Convicting "
Criminals by K
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believed,only he “oW have made, so the
police apprehended him.
him livin An apparently pdace-
ht emlbiys "2,",
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Kediechem"ppntivz Eeontfhv;.veark.
5 *“Sln‘Ud"' a ^Swi/a aa
bit on.the end of • mateh stick, wrapped ft
mto’SSTft’Tfc 'atX1" “ elop.
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The picture showed great streaks
gf ink; ft showed fine
partieles of cart from a lithograph-
;ng stone, and tracts of crystals
from a chemical that engraver use
From this picture the police
• new as tempi itely what the
t iminal had been doing as if they
been meeretly —Uhm, h
c^cT*0*1 throug the keyhole o"
was a matter of common knowl-
edge. There began to appear
100- franc notes, which, ft was
ch la Case 01. a group of strikers,
engaged ia nabofage, bad broken
into a textile mill one night, in the
Valley of the Rhine. . Mt
. of.machinery, i mtn j rd a quantity
of woven doth and committed other depre-
dationa The police suspected that their ring- Thev hook dnun .7''” -2-
leader waa a certain alleged syndicause ngent, or 02 ahop"udawn hin clothen.and pgtsome
professional agitator na advocat ofrie- wltht metur. der.thet.misroncope-Theur
eranomed AdreBeaudemeau, who lived particles of nickel and alloy— umyrmiik’ to-
STMesnehtest.a him on mmaiemn H. . Ptmible. to, the naked eye that
nounea anderin theny“SNeopoinHa dat ehunk ofmetalwhen prrauy magnied"5,
that he W8 no Pitterer by.trade,.declared crime detectien, ft to believed. win eventunil,
sa: qeur,"suaqpaptiomtbz.tn„petiegtxez:
harvrneenmarzctnstbrmrnia.sn..
One of the firet succesaful
of the method, ase Series
628, unraveld the
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is the dai
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in the fle
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vamping,
by her
worse ha
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the uprigi
lives off h
direct ra
fore, off I
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children,
cheat and
she have, I
grate eon
r reach Sweetheart, Manu La telle.
A NEW method of scientific crime de-
Hi tection, which makes Sherlock
. 2 . Holmes and other fictional sleuths
look like childish amateurs, has just been
developed in France; and will probably
toon be used in America.
It is the application of high-power
microscopy to dust and other substances
which cling to the body or clothes of sus-
—w—u—Hedrstezamimed
already Mk mchievemegt whernthefinceraila had dug in " V
realized that establish the microaeotw — "aschokin her. A previous effort had
the greatest of all crime detectors. - heen 2^!?° get finger-printa, but the
Detectives in novet andpolice investi- nssehadbeensgoazmudged,smeared and
gators in real life have always used micro- uDieerated the StruzEle that they were
toopm. but ttawe they employ tom about Dr Loeard obtained a tinv ht. , ..
the same relation to Dr 1Aere», «■ dI* Ae oDtaned a tiny bit of dirt
tha: a toy pistoi d£ ardismachine from beneath « of Gougbin,
aiege gun: . “058 * • “ateenrineh and are, hours later the evidence’was
His maroscope, combined cwith sts rerdythssventubimadzthegupotine
SAmerais eightfeet lon. and magpifies beneath his fingemam flowed a group of
ohieets.torsorooo timez their natural di- rounded blood «'>—*«• Which coula”not
gaphicplatecand already pictures ofduut “ showed, in addition, minute parcie of
posuass as small that you could balance torn fesh; and, to cap the climax, char
mndosony"Lrarponde.punage- (he"piat w“ dew"lope 11 nuwtu tbJzn
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hmm of the clothes ho was wearing. Dr
locardeould go on the stand and swear with
SX.’TS.'fc’S mrcanvetdoina
The new nyatem of ertme detection bf the
miernasszgcHeidare"uczuzgeey‛ar-a2
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• ■ *,na—•. One of the qulekeat, ana
zimglest. toavirtteos and therufese cAJof
theimostAnteresting—waa •• ease of Jooef
— ° -.ertested for making counterfeit one-
.franc pieces,of niekel and lloy, in Paria,
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Making the Super-Microscope the La
and Greatest of Detectives
Dr. Philip Rahtjen,
California Bac-
How a French Scientist
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