The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-11-06

The assassination had teken place on
Sunday between noon r I o'clock
The extraction Of the eyes from their
orbits had not been made until the fol-
owing day at s O'Clock in the evening.
The experiment on the eyes, those
terribly accusing eyes of this dead "a
4 could be made "a hours earlier than
that other experiment. The imase-if
| there was any inage-ought to be in
consequence more clearly dehne than
in DR.. Bourion's experiment.
About 6 O'Clock In III evening""
thought Bernardet. and the photo
graphic light was sufficient
Dr. Bourbon had taken pictures of
both the child's eyes as well as both
! of the mothers eyes. The child's eyes
showed nothing but hay clouds. but
the mothers eyes were different. Upon
the left eve 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
| pi-ture-one could see the assassin rails
| ing his arm to strike and the dog leap
| ing TO protect his little charge.
WITH much good VIII. 1t must be
| confessed" thought ~Bernardet, looking
again and again at the photograph.
and with much IMAGINATION too. But
It wa between 80 and 50 hours after
| she murder that the proof was taken.
while this time 1t will be while the
| body is still warm that the experiment
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 prussia
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 ratina to Photographic ac-
ton, made a sort of Maltese cross by
making four incisions on the edge OF
the sclerotic. He removed the vitreous
humor. fixed 1t on a piece of card with
four pins and submitted the retina as
quickly as possible to the arnera.
In 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
DIR. Nernois:
acid. vernois had held the animal In
front of the bars of the cage in which
1t was confined. No result.
Retina of n strangled dogs ye. A
watch was held in front Of its eyes.
No result.
Retina of a dov killed by strangula-
ton. A bunch of shining keys was
held in front of his eyes. No result.
Retina of a stransied dog. An eye
glass held in front of its eyes. Photo
gram made two hours after death.
Nothing. In al! Or. Vernois' expert
Bernardet repeated the word angrily.
Still he kept on. He read page after
page. But all this was Is years ago
photography has made great strides
since then. What wonderful results
have been obtained! The skeleton of
The y, ,.,, InI,r cnap s1rN,,~ l. tho a-.t,
The instantaneous photograph, the kline
toscopic views, mans voice registered
for eternity In the monograph. 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 u eyes as a spectacle!
"One does not now all that may be-
done with a Kodak" murmured Bernar-
Diet.
AS he ascertained in rereading DR..
Nernois' report on "'The Application Of
Photography to Medical Jurisprudence"
the savant himself, even while deny
ing the results of which DR.. Bourion
spoke in his communication. devoted
himself to the general consideration
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-
raph"s should be applied. He advocated
what in our day is so the
photographing of the features of Grim
inals. their deformities, their scars.
their t%attooings: He demanded that
pictures should be taken of an accused
person in many way without wigs and
with them. with and without boards. in
divers costumes.
These propositions,' thought Ber-
nardet, seem hardly new. 1t is %
years since they were discovered. and
now they seem as natural as that two
and two make four. In 26 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
and feet. the interior view OF their
rooms, the signature OF a certain ac-
cused affected with disorders.
parts Of bodies and Of bones. md. in
fact. everything in any way connected
with the crime. 1t was said that he
asked too much. Did he expect Judges
to make photographs? Today every
thing that Vernois demanded In 1860
has been done, and in truth the instan-
taneous photograph has almost super
seded the minutes Of an investigation.
(contisued Next WeekA