The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01

robber by the light produced by blow on
his eye in the dark
In case Of murder by strangulation the
woman who perpetrated the crime had
been nurse In an infirmery and accus-
TONED TO lay out dead bodies. After the
murder she carried out unthtnkingly her
professional practice by smoothing the
| clothes under the body Of her victim,
placing the legs at full length. the arms
out straight by the side and the hands
open. The doctor who was called in at
once declared such a condition of the body
was lnexplicable on the supposition Of
suicide, considering the amount OF violence
that must have attended the strangulation.
In another case the criminal had at
tempted to make the death appear like the
OF suicide by placing the lower end of the
rope near the hand Of the deceased, but be
selected the left hand whereas the deceased
was right-handed, and he did not leave
enough rope for either hand to grasp in
order to produce the very violent oonstric-
tion of the neck, which had been caused
by the two coils on the rope. A surgeon
pointed out these things Both criminals
confessed their crimes before execution.
An escaped convict was on trial before a
French court and the question turned upon
his identity with a prisoner known 70 have
been tattooed. There was no appearance of
colored marks upon his arm, and the Ques-
ton submitted to NJ. Leroy, medicoIegal
EXPERT, was whether the man had ever been
| tatrooed. ID. Leroy applied strong friction
to the skin of the mans arm. This had the
effect OF bringing out white lines as
| cicatrices, with a slight blush tint. By
this means the word "Sophie" was plainly
legible in white marks on the Redeemed
| skin. This proved the identity of the con-
vict and he was released.
A trial took place at the Old Bailey in
London at which the late MIR. Carpue, the
| surgeon, was able to rescue a man who was
| wrongly charged with being a convict and
with having unlawfully returned from
| transportation. The chief clerk Of Bow
street police station produced certificate
| dated seventeen years before, of the convic-
| ton of a person, alleged to be the prisoner,
under the name OF Stuart. The governor of
the jail in Stuart was confined believed the
| prisoner to be the person who was then in
his custody. The guard Of the hulks to
swore positively that the prisoner was
| Stuart. On oross-examination of
the guard he admitted that
| Stuart had wen on his left
hand, and so well marked was it that it
formed a part of his description on the
books of the convict hulk. The pris-
oner said his pane was Stipler; he
Stuart, but he could not bring forward
| any conhrmatory evidence because
such number OF years had elapsed. The
recorder was proceeding to charge the
| jury when the counsel for the defense re-
| quested permission to put a question to an
eminent surgeon, Mr.. Carpue. who hap
pened TO be In court. He deposed that 10
was impossible TO remove such a wen as had
| been described without leaving a mark or
| cicatFix. Both hands of the prisoner were
examined, but no wen nor any mark of a
| wen having been removed was found.
The Importance of examining closely the
hair found ON weapons was shown in q case
in which a Ratchet, having clotted blood aud
| hair adherent 60 it, was produced as evil
dence against a prisoner suspected OF MUIR
der in a little country town. II was found
| under his bed. This, with other circum-
stsntial evidence, had turned public opinion
| strongly against the prisoner, but when the
hair was examined by a microscopic who
| CHANGED to be in the court room it was
| found not to be human. but that of some
| animal This circumstance led to a more
complete sitting of the evidence, and the
accused was acquitted. IL turned out that
| he had killed dog with The Ratchet. and
had carelessly thrown the, weapon under
the bed. SO his life literally hung on a
hair.