The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-05

The assassination had k place or
| Sunday between noon n 4 O'CLOCK
The extraction of the eyes from theli
orbits had not been made until the loi-
lowing day at s o'clock in the evening
The experiment on the eyes, those
terribly accusing eyes OF this dead man,
could be made "a hours Garner thar
that other experiment. The 11nage--li
there vas any i~mage-ought TO be IN
consequence more clearly dehned than
in DIR. Bourion's experiment.
About 6 o'clock in the evening
thought Bernardet, land the photo
! graphic light was sufficient.
DR.. Bourbon had taken pictures OF
both the child's eyes as we'll as both
of the mothers eyes. h ch1lds eyes
showed nothing but hazy clouds, but
the mothers eyes were different. Upon
the left eye next to the circular section
back of the iris, a delicately marked
image of a dogs head appeared; on the
same section of the right eye another
| picture-one could see the assassin rails
ing his arm to strike and the dog leap
ing to protect his little charge.
with much good will, 1t must be
confessed" thought Bernardet, looking
! again and again at the photograph,
land with much imagination too. But
1t was between so and 50 hours after
the murder that the proof was taken
while this time 1t will be while the
DOQy Is SUN "dTil Ildl ne CAPCi a
will be tried
Seventeen times already had DR.. Yer
nois experimental on aninals-some-
times just after he had ~strangled them.
again when they had died from prussic
acid. He had held in front of their
eyes a simple object which could be
easily recognized. He had taken out
the eyes and hurried them to the pho
tographer. He had, in order to better
expose the retlna to Photographic ac-
ton, made a sort of Maltese cross by
making four incisions on the edge OF
the sclerotfc. He n v1treous
humor. fixed 1t OF a piece of card with
-four pins and submitted the retina as
quickly as possible to the camera
In rereading the learned mans re-
port Bernardet studied. pored over,
carefully scrutinized the text, inyesti-
gated the dozen proofs submitted to
the society of medical Jurisprudence by
Dr.. Nernois:
Retina of a cats eye killed by prussia
acid. Nernois had held the animal in
front OF the bars of the cage in which
it was confined. No result.
Retina of a ~strangled dogs eye. A
watch was held IN front of its eyes.
No result.
Retina Of a dos killed by strangula-
ton. A bunch of shining keys was
held in front OF his eyes. No result.
Retina of a s~trangled dog. An eye
z lts { "a lioII VI L SyCS. "
graph made two hours after death.
Nothing. In all DR.. Vernois' expert
ments-nothing. nothing!
Bernardet repeated the word angrily.
Still he kept on. He read page after
page. But all hi was 26 years ago
since then. What wonderful results
have been obtained! The skeleton of
the human body seen through the flesh,
the instantaneous photograph. the kline
toscopic views. mans voice registered
for eternity in the photograph, the
mysterious dragged forth into the light
of day, many hitherto unknown secrets
become common property, the invisible
even the invisible-the occult, placed
before our eyes as a spectacle!
Cone does not know all that may be
done with a kodak" murmured Bernar-
Diet.
AS he ascertained in rereading DR..
Vernois' report on THE Application OF
Photography to Medical Jurisprudence"
the savant himself, even while deny
ing the results of which DR.. Bourbon
spoke in his communication, devoted
himself to the general consideration
upon the role which photography ought
to play in medical Jurisprudence. Yes.
In 1859 he asked that in the researches
on poisonous substances, where the mi
croscope alone had been used, photog-
raphv should be applied. He advocated
what in our day is SO common, the
photographing of the features of GRIM
mails. their deformities. their scars,
tattooings. He demanded that
pictures should be taken of an accused
person in many ways, without wigs and
with them. with and without boards. In
divers costumes.
These propositions" thought Ber-
nardet, seem hardly new. It is 90
years since they were discovered. and
now they seem as natural as that two
and W make four. In Is years from
now who knows what science will have
done?
"Vernois demanded that wounds be
reproduced, their size, the Instruments
with which the crime was committed.
the leaves of plants In certain cases Of
poisoning. the shape @of the Victims
garments, the prints OF their hands
and feet, the interior view OF their
rooms, the signature OF a certain ac-
cused affected with w disorders
parts of bodies and OF bones; and. in
fact. everything in any way Connected
with the crime. It was said that he
asked too much. Did he expect Judges
to make photographs? Today every-
thing that Vernois demanded In 1870
has been done. and in truth the instan-
taneous photograph has almost super-
seded the minutes of an investigation.
Continued Next Weekly
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