The copper country evening news., 1898-02-17
THE CRIME OF
THE BOULEVARD.
By JULES CLARETIE.
tcopyright. 1897. by R. F. Fenno s. Col

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"Hsve you photographed any your
self. NJ Ginory:"
"No."
"Ahi There is where the proof is. F"
"But in 1877 the very learned doyer
of the Academy of Medicine, NJ. Brou
ardel, whose great wisdom and whose
sovereign opinion were law, one of those
men who are an honor TO their country,
told me that when he was in Heidel-
berg he had heard Professor Kuhne say
that he had studied this same question.
He had made impressions of the retina
of the eye in the following cases; After
the death of dog or a wolf he had TAX
en- out the eye and replaced it with the
back part of the eye in front; then he
took very strong light and placed it
in front of the eye, and between the eye
and the light he placed small grating
This grating, after an exposure of a
quarter of an hour, was visible upon
the retina. But those are very different
experiments from those one hears of in
America. "
"They could see the bars in the graf
ing? If that was visible, why could not
the visage of the murderer be found
there?'
"Ehl Other experiments have been
attempted, even after those of which
Professor Kuhne told our compatriot.
Every one, you understand, has borne
only negative results, and NJ. Brouardel
could tell you better than that in the
physiological and oculistic treatises
published during the last ten years no
allusion has been made TO the preserva-
tion of the image on the retina after
death. 1t is an affair classe, Bernardet.
"Ah, monsieur, yeti And the po-
lice officer hesitated. Shaking his head,
he again repeated, Yet-yet'-
"You are not convinced?"
"No, NJ. Ginory, and shall / tell you
why? You, yourself, in spite of the tes
timony of illustrious savants, still doubt.
l pray you TO pardon me, but see it in
your eyes. ="
"That is still another way to use the
retina, said Ginory, laughing. "You
read ones thoughts. "
"No, monsieur, but you are a man of
too great intelligence to say TO yourself
that there is nothing in this world
classe, that every matter can be taken
up again. The idea has come to me to
try the experiment if l am permitted.
Yes, monsieur, those eyes, did you see
them-the eyes of the dead man? They
seemed to speak, they seemed to see.
Their expression is of lifelike intensity.
They see, tell you, they see. They per-
ceive something which we cannot see
and which is frightful They bear-and
no one can convince me to the contrary
they bear on the retina the reflection
of the last being whom the murdered
man saw before he died. They keep it
still; they still retain that image. They
are going to hold an autopsy. They will
tell us that the throat is cut. Eh, par
bleul We know it well. We see it for
ourselves. Moniche, the porter knows
it as well as any doctor, but when one
questions those eyes, when one searches
in that black chamber where the image
appears as on plate, Wnen one de-
mands of those eyes their secret, am
convinced that one will find it,"
"You are obstinate, Bernardet."
"Yes, very obstinate, M. Ginory, and
very patient. The pictures which took
with my kodak will give us the express
sion, the interior, so to speak Those
which we would take of the retina
would reveal to us the secret of the ago
ny. And, moreover, unless I deceive
myself, what danger attends such an
experiment? One opens the poor eyes,
and that is sinister certainly, but when
one holds an autopsy at the morgue,
when one enlarges the cash in the throat
in order to study it, when one dissects
the body, is it any more respectful or
proper? Ah, monsieur, if but had
your power
M. Ginory seemed quite struck with
all that the police officer had said to
him, but while he still held to his con-
lm