The Globe-republican., 1894-04-06

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THERE WAS ONLY ONE STUDENT IN THE
over here. nowr' He seized me by the
coat-5leeve in his eagerness, and drew
me over to the table at which he had
been working. Let us have some
fresh blood" he said. digging long
bcdkin into his finger. and drawing off
the resulting drop of blood in chem
zeal pipette. NOW, l add this small
quantity of blood to litre of water
You perceive that the resulting mix
ture has the appearance of true water
The proportion of blood cannot be
more than one in a million. l have no
doubt. however, that we shall be able
to obtain the characteristic reaction.
As he spoke. he threw into the vessel
few white crystals, and then added
some drops of a transparent fluid. In
an instant the contents assumed dull
mahogany color, and a brownish dust
was prccipitated to the bottom of the
glass jar.
hands, and looking as delighted as
child with new toy. 'What do you
think of that?''
1T seems to be very delicate test"
1 remarked.
beautiful. beautiful! The old
guaiacum test was very clumsy and I'M
certain. So is the microscopic cxami-
nation for blood-ccrpuscles. The lat
ter is valueless if the stains are few
hours old. Now, this appears to act
as well whether the blood is old or
new Had this test been invented.
there are hundreds of men now walk
ing the earth who would long ago have
paid the penalty of their crimes"
''Indeed!" nlurrnured.
Criminal eases are continually
Ringing upon that one point. A man
is suspected Of crime months per-
! haps after it has been committed. His
linen or clothes are examined, and
brownish stains discovered upon them.
| Are they blood-stains. or mud-stains.
| or rust stains. or fruit-stains, or what
are they? That is a question which
has puzzled many an expert, and why?
| Because there was no reliable test.
! Now we have the Sherlock Holmes
test. ard there will no longer be any
difficulty
His eyes fairly glittercd as he spoke.
I. and he put his hand over his heart and
bowed as if to some applauding crowd
conjurcd up by his Imagination.
sYou are to be congratulated" !! re-
rac..l,ca. considerably surprised at his
enthusiasm.
There wcs the case of Won Biscnoff
ct Frankfort last year. He would GER
tainiy have been hung had this test
been in existence. Then there was
Mason, of bradford, and the notorious
Muller and Lefevre, of Montpelier,
and Samson. of New Orleans. ! could
name a score Of cases in which it would
have been decisive"
you seem to be walking calendar
of crime said Stamford. with n laugh
''You might start a paper on those
lines. Call it the Police News of the
Past"
Every interesting reading it might
be made. too" remarked Sherlock
Holmes, sticking small piece of plas
ter over the prick on his finger. -
have to be careful" he continued, turn
, ing to me with smile, ''for dabbls
with poisons q good deal" He heli
out his hand as he spoke. and noticed
that it was ell notified over with sini
: lar pieces of plaster and discolored will
, strong acids.
: "Wc came here on business" sait
. Stamford. sitting down on a three
legged stool and pushing another on
! in my direction with his foot M.
: friend here wants to take diggings
: and as you were complaining that yo1
: could get no one to 60 halves witt
I you, thought that / had better brin,
r you together"
Sherlock holmes seemed delighte,
r at the idea of sharing his rooms wit
me. Il have my eye on suite il
/ Baker street." he :aid, (which woul
suit Us down to the ground. You don
4 mind the smell of strong tobacco,
), hopc?"
h Il always smoke ships myself"
answered.
0 That's good enough. I general
0 have chemicals about, and occasional
g j. do experiments. Would that ammo
. you:"
. "Dy no means"
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