The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-04

me suspects story was flcticions, save
Tor the aid OF microphotOgraphy. At the
eilal ne nrst made clear - the jury the
character and properties OF human blood
asking the foreman TO place a drop OF
ms own blood under a microscope, he
showed the gentleman the crowds OF mi
mute bodies. sO-called corpuscles il con-
tanned. Then he demonstrated that the
average diameter of the red cOrpuscles
winch are IN the majority. is about Is. 500
part OF an inch, their thickness about one
IourIh OF that measurement The form
Hs uemonstrated, was that of circular
uses, signify cOncaYe on both ends.
At the end OF this object lesson he pro-
uuceu the acknowledgements. The fden-
IitE OF the nrst representing corpuscles
the mlcrometer proved that those in the,
pictures mad exactly the same circun-
ference as the minute parts OF the blood
u tielf foreman which they had seen
uraMn and placed under the microscope.
Inc second picture introduced repre-
scented the cOrpuscles of the blood OF
pig, that is the animal from which the
prisoner said the blood on his shirt had
come. II was demonstrated that the cor
puscles IN pigs blood have oval form and
iDsslee are considerably smaller than those
IN human blood. To demons trate the pOint
Iqiaather, the Photograph exhibiting mag
mined corpuscles of goats blood wac
SHOWN. These again are smaller than the
cofpuscles Of the pigs blood
AFTER TINS the prisoner broke down anG
Fh9to mlcrographical pictures OF mans
beard hair. tip of woman's hair. tin OF
man halr, root of woman's hair root
OF man hair' have also played a decis-
slVe part In a murder trial Two men had
been arrested for the murder of a certain
person On the garments OF one which
were saturated with blood. a woman's
ndiF had been found. that is its identity
as such was established only after il had
been photographed under a microscope
anu SHOWN. exhibiting tips and roots of
Upon the person Of the second prisoner
VAS also a quantity of human hair found.
Inc mlcroseopical camera showed that II
"a a Hn naa
partly from the beard
Ihe'person murdered was a woman. the
wife OF the first prisoner. and the hair on
dead womans head This settled his CON
nection with the case
The prosecution maintained that more
IMAM one person had been concerned
in the murder. The second prisoner.
however, claimed an alibi, which could not
De disputed by direct evidence, as Il turn
ed out. Finally the judicial EXPERT hit
upon the plan to compare the hair found
on the clothes of the second prisoner
with those of the first prisoner Specimens
or the latter Kind We're procured, but ocu-
lar comparison failed to establish their
similarity. Then photomicrography was
tried, and by those means it was proved
beyond doubt that the hair came from
the same head and beard.
To fully appreciate this il must be I'M
derstood that human hair differs vastly
no two hairs alike" said a scientist A
hair possesses root a shaft and a tip.
The root IS embedded I'm the hair follicle
while the shaft and tip form the free pro-
tecting part. The substance of the human
hair Is composed OF horny material with
many cells containing the pigment gran
ules. In the thicker hair 0n a man $
beard hair for instance), these cells con-
tain air.
The beard hair magnified by the process
exhibits the hair cutcle perfectly. with
its scale-like cells and it's air chambers;
the latter appear dark, the cell scales
quite light, for the mans beard was of a
grayish color.
No expert Is needed to distinguish be-
tween the hair roots. Those of the female
are lank and thin; those from a man 5
head are club shaped. The tips of the wo-
mans hair show that they have not been
cut Tor great many years, while those
OF the mans head clearly exhibit the
marks Of the scissors, where the tips have
been cut from the shaft.
All this and more testimony that I'm
spite OF its technical character appealed
directly to the understanding Of everybody
concerned, was brought out at the trial
mentioned, and II was finally found that
the second prisoner stood guard at the
mouse where the murder was committed
ana that after the deed the murderer, IN
a mt OF emotion, threw himself on his
friends neck and cried then and there
leaving the tell-tale hair from his head
and beard upon the mans shoulders.