Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-11-06

Sunday between noon and 4 O'Clock.
The extraction of the eyes from their
orbits had not been made until the fol-
lowing day at 6 o'clock in the evening.
The experiment on the eyes. thoss
terribly accusing eyes of this dead man.
could be made "a hours earlier imam
that other experiment. The image-if
there was any i~mage-ought TO be IN
consequence more clearly defined IMAM
I'm DIR. Bourion's experiment.
About s O'Clock jn the evening
/ thought Bernardet. land the photo
graphic light was sufficient.
DIR. Bourbon had taken pictures or
both the child's eyes as well as both
OF the mothers eyes. The child's eyes
showed nothing but hazy clouds, but
the mothers eyes were different. Upon
the left eye next TO the cul 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, ii must be
confessed" thought Bernardet, looking
again and again at the photograph,
"and with much imagination too. But
II was between so and % hours after
the murder that the proof was taken.
while this time il will be while the
body is still warm that the experiment
will be tried"
Seventeen times already had DR.. YER
nOis experimental on an~imals-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
t~ographer. He had. III order to better
expose the retina to Photographic ac-
tion, made a sort of Maltese cross by
making four incisions OF the edge or
the sclerotiC. He removed the vitreous
humor. fixed IL on a piece Of card with
our pins and submitted the retina as
quickly as possible 10 the camera.
III ~rereading the learned mans re-
port Bernardet studied. pored over,
carefully sCrutinized the text, investi-
gated the dozen proofs submitted To
the society of medical Jurisprudence by
Dr. Vernois:
Rctina of a cats eye killed by prussic
acid Vernois had held the animal in
front Of the bars of the cage in which
it was confined. No result.
Retina of n strangled dogs eye. \
watch was held i'm front OF its eyes.
No result.
Retlna of a dor killed by s~trangula-
ton. A bunch Of shining keys was
held i'm front of his eyes. No result.
Retina Of a strangled dog. An eye
glass held i'm front of it's eyes. Photo
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 this was % years ago
photography has made great strides
since then. What wonderful results
been obtained. The skeleton OF
the hlman body seen through the flesh,
the instantaneous photograph, the kline
toscopic views, mans voice registered
eternity i'm the photograph, the
mysterious dragged forth into the light
of day, many hitherto unknown secrets
become common property. the invisible
EVE the inviSible-the occult, placed
before our eyes as a spectacle
lone does not know all hat may be
done with a kodak" murmured Bernar-
Diet.
AS he ascertained i'm rereading DR..
Eernois' report on The Application OF
Photography to Medical Jurisprudence"
the savant himself, even while deny
ing the results of which DR.. Bourbon
spoke i'm his communication, devoted
himself to the general consideration
the role which photography ought
to play I'm medical Jurisprudence. Yes.
in 1863 he asked hat in the researches
on poisonous substances, where the mi
crosCope Tor had been used, photog-
should be applied. He advocated
what in our day is so common, the
photographing of the features of GRIM
mails. their deformities, their scars.
their 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-
seem hardly new. IT is %
years since they were discovered and
they seem as natural as that two
and two make four. In &c years from
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 nervous 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
make photographs? Today every
thing that Fernois demanded In 1860
has been done, and in truth the instan-
taneous photograph has almost super
seeded the minutes OF an investigation.
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