Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-05-17
DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST, NAPOLEON, ., MAY II. 1894

asking me 10 have a smoke with him.
A week later Lefebry and myself left
Liverpool on the Teutonic for New
York.
! had spent the week in looking up
tno DeIeDry murder case. AT SCOTLAND
Yard I was favored with the inforIaa-
tion that the authorities were capable
Of coping with the matter themselves
and required no assistance in unrayel-
ing the mystery.
In other directions was more fortu-
nate; found friend OF the murdered
woman who was q perfect treasure 10
me. She furnished a full length pho
tograph Of the victim, and was able
TO get from her fair idea OF what the
dead woman's voice resembled, to-
gether with some less important par
ticulars. | was now in position to be-
come mental vivisectiohist in earnest
and with every facility 10 help me in
my experiments.
Lefebry had murdered the woman
undoubtedly. He was thrown into the
closest possible contact with me, and
considered me his best living friend,
although l had never pledged myself
TO him in any way. He had, moreover,
no suspicion as to what really was my
occupation or purpose.
Perhaps had an unfair advantage
Of him, but do not think SO. More
over. II did not matter II Justice were
botter served.
Among my papers Is O queer oohec-
ton of data which have accumulated
in my travels. From the ST. Peters
aurg police I obtained O series OF pho
tographs Of the palms OF mprdereps
hands, another OF their mouths and
one OF their faces. These included
several hundreds OF specimens, and |
had had composite photographs made
of them, which showed the average
physiognomy of the blood-spiller.
had also gathered few specimens
of the eyes Of murderers, which l con-
sidered would some day Hove more
serviceable than anything else I pos
sessed in the detection OF crime in con.
nection, perhaps, with the spectre
| scope.
There has been theory held that
| the thoughts which emanate from the
mind are identified with the different
colors, and 1t has been proven from the
work of ancient potters and Others that
color sight is u sense which has devel-
oped enormously in the human being
during the past few centuries.
Tho multiplication of new shades is
now 80 infinite that a special training
is necessary In order to be able to diff
ferentiate them correctly.
1t has always occurred to me that
colors have q great connection with
ideas. For instance, we Immediately
connect white with purity, blue with
truth and immensity, and red with de-
structiveness. Fire is red. The color
Of the blood is not known until it is
spilled, when it is seen to be red. The
blossom OF the poppy, from which
opium, the great destroyer of conscious
ness and moral strength comes, is red
The scarlet woman OF the Bible takes
her color from her infamous character
and l should not be surprised if guilt
could be photographed and analysed
by tho spectroscope, to find red also.
But these ore only theories, like my
theory of automatic writing.
l believe that some day oil we shal
have to do to determine O persons
guilt or innocence will be to put the
suspect in cell, clap an electrical ap
paratus on and administer O dose o.
ether to remove the controlling power
of the upper brain, SO that by fastening
the fingers to something like the trans
mitting pencil of telautograph the
prisoner will write out his or her owr
death warrant or acquittal, as the case
may be. OF course, lawyers, judges
and detectives would not want to see
this accomplished, but / consider tina
an excellent way to dispose of persons
suspected Of murder and condemned OF
circumstantial evidence would be tt
hand them over to board of psyche
logical experts for purposes OF expert
ment.
However, in the present case haG
none OF those facilities by which to dis
cover Lefebry's secret and l had sim.
ply to be satisfied with ruse In order
to extort from him, If possible, a con
fession OF murder.
For my investigation had one tre
mendous adv9ntage. Lefebry did moi
know that his identity was suspected
by me. This gave me chance tt
make observations which could moi
otherwise have made; since the mo
ment O person is under espionage GER
tain secretiveness, which is the self
protecting instinct OF all ANIMAL, en-
ablos him to cloak even his feelings
from observation.
In fact, unless there is absolute proc