The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-23
4 EStfange Uses for Photographs.

"A EStfange Uses for photographs.
esCourts and lawyers are now putting
stete9Ta phs to novel uses. The sun
pictures of various kinds have been in
lsepplar use for generation; but many
Years passed before they were adopted
iatosthe apparatus of courts OF justice.
TIE law of the land is a wary old fox,
and Fcrutinizes vav new invention for a
long time befsfe Extending Hid paw to-
.aplpropriate IT. Butefsate years, when
4 person is to be identified, the Judge
and jury aregsry Glad dee leok 1T BE sor1
her photograph as an aid. In such law
suits as the great Tichborne trial. where
a man claims to besss persons VINO BlefS'
the country years ago, and has not since
been seen at home, if there are photo
graphs of that person taken before he
went, they may be of the greatest use in
determining the identify of the clailik
antsqss Every one has heard of the
RogHes' galleries, in which the police
keep photographs Of noted criminals If
a thief or vagrant, newly arrested, is
Suspected Ito I'D MA ad 90GenAkr, Jhe 81
taken to the gallery and confronted with
the portrait. A photograph is an import
ant auxiliary in the still-hunt fora default
err. If bank Cashier or insurance Secre-
tary has abseoWiea with money enough
an possession 3oswarraats hieariSsss the;
cost, the detectives will quietly circulate
copies of his photogaphS oEspe,ts<ean
usually form some judgment of the
Fcohtse his journeX will probably take,
ana 81 900 will put 4 cheap portrait and
notice of reward in the hands of thou
lands of railway -nndF brake.
men, rhotef clerks, haifsboys ana porS
ters.s4 Postmasters, baggage express
men, news-V9 htl6fs, keepers of saloefx
and restaurants, and all that multitude
of aaert shagp5sIgltsd, qniek5yyit t 3.
sooner does he settle down for q, rest or
4 new. home than the Photographs, un-
suspected by him, follow; and he can
Ilhardly buy a newspaper,-a-m meal, or
drink, go in and out at his hotel, or call
at the express or Postzofiice, but some
one is sfeaaifffy comparing the Nee n
HMssstranger, now first seenint h9town,
with the visage upon the card. This
gives the detective police of our day an
aid of which the Bow Street officers and
the old-time policemen of New York
never dreaasds@eIolicS sysbso WI
The circumstance thai. beanan to he
identified is dead and buried does not
hinder. Probably the well known case
| of the murder of Goss, in Pennsylvania,
Would never have been unraveled if
there had not been aphotograph, ~ There
was a, somewhat similar case, less famil-
TARGET an Englishman, who left wife and
home in Cansda to Visit AHp&rha. He
| had not beefi there many weeks when he
fbesame ipHslsed in zsefn eee0atrsyeTsys
was arrested by the. Sheriff, and was
then taken from the jail by an angry
! mob and killed. His widow brought
as by the law of Alabama she might-a
saitrsgainst the county for her loss of
support. But her husband had been in
! Alabama for only short time, and had
SoHeb two names; hence, when the
! county authorities challenged her lawyer
ITO make proof that the husband from
Canada and the man killed by the mob
were the same person, he was perplexed.
FheSman, meantime, had been buried,
and there was noPefs6n Mh dRfad kA0N11
t, an91; II 81 Gsa NJ as d.
Sent to her from Alsbama his ephptoz
graph, with his name upon it in his own
| Handwriting. Upon the trial she pros
Iduusd the card and. testified to the Ike.
ness and the oautognaph.y The picture
was then shewnto the Sheriff, and he
tsaid it was the portrait of the man Whom
hesarrested and whom the mob took
nom him. And persons j. concerned in
the burial declared it was the man who
was killed. isThus the caseAwss wonsIi,d
.isA photograph of a building or Of To-
cality may he Very nsefnl., Suppose a
| traveller along aeoaatry read rbyo night
drives against "a heap of'.stones' or pile
Of, rubbish wrongfuliy left in the way,
and'is hurt, He desires to sue the. town
for damages, but of course the highway
officers will send and remove the nni-
sance at,otice, and after that it will be
sdifieult TO make the jury und and
whereabouts and how large the obstTuc-
ton was. Letshim have it photographed.
A New ~ orker, when hiss next-loor
neighbor, in altering his own building
tore down the wall between them, did
not wish to let, the mischief lie umre-
paired until his lawsuit could be tried,
fso, he had ,tcarefnl photographs taken.
lThep he repaned his place. - When the
tsasit for damages came for trial, his law
erasked to show these. pictures to the
tjury, and the Court said he might do so.
/ In Iowa a railway bridge broke down
nmier al train, and the 5condn ctor was
fkhled. "a His widow knew that the com
lpafiy would .haves the bridge mended
t1ong before she could have a trial, and
I1that, afterst was fYlended, thdfe would
1.be'great, difficulty II showing how de
feetive it was. She had photographs
taken of the wrecked bridge, and by aid
of these she gained her 1suit.e ssiEs q DIR 4.
lin questions Of handwriting and the
genuineness of signatures, photography
has been several times, invoketf.a i.As TO
this there is one peculiarly a photo
graphic copy can be taken enlarged.
which increases, so the friendsaof such
Eeviqence claim, the means of detecting
Preferences or asserting ideptitNhetween
! two specimens. The effect IS much the
same, soaone Judgesobserved, as hooking
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