The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-05

The assassination had teken place on
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, those
terribly accusing eyes Of this dead man,
could be made "a hours earlier than
that other experiment. The image--if
there was any im~age--ought to be In
! consequences more clearly defined than
in DIR. Bourion's experiment.
About 8 o'clock in the evening"
thought Bernnrdet, land the photo
graphic light was sufficient.
DIR. Bourbon had taken pictures or
| both the child's eyes as we'll as botn
OF the mothers eyes. The child,s eyes
showed nothing but hazy clouds, but
the mothers ayes 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, II must De
confessed" thought Bernardst, lookins
again and again at the photograph,
"and with much imagination too. But
Il was between so and 81 hours after
the murder that the proof was taken,
while this time It will be while the
body is still warm h a h experiment.
will be tried"
Seventeen times already had DR.. YER
nois experimented in animals-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 retina to Photographic ac-
ton, made a sort OF Maltese cross by
making four i~ncisions or the edge OF
the sclerotic. He removed the vitreous
humor. fixed Il on a piece OF card with
four pins and submitted the retina az
quickly as possible to the camera.
In rereading the learned mans re-
port Bernardet studied. pored over.
carefully s~crutinized the text, inyesti-
gated the dozen proofs submitted to
the society of medical Jurisprudence by
DR.. Vernois:
Retina of a cats eye killed by prussia
ncid. Vernois had held the animal In
front of the bars OF the cage IN which
1t was confined. No result.
RetIna Of a strangled dogs eye. A
watch WAS held In front OF its eyes.
No result.
Retina of a doe killed by stranguIa-
ton. A bunch OF shining keys was
held In front of his eyes. No result.
Retina OF a strangled dog. An eye
glass held In front OF its eyes. Photo
graph made two hour after death.
Nothing. In all Or. Vernois' expert
ments-nothing, nothingl ~
Bernardet repeated the word angrily.
Still he kept on. He read page after
page. But all this was 20 al ago
photography has made great strides
since then. What wonderful results
have been obtainedl The skeleton or
the human body seen through the flesh,
the instantaneous photograph, the kline
toscopic views. mans voice registered
Tor 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!
zone does not know all that may be
done with a kodak" mu" = led Bernar-
fdet. >
AS he ascertained in eading DIR.
vernois' report on THE Application Of
Photography to Medical Jurisprudence"
the savant himself, even while deny
ing the results of which DIR. Bourbon
spoke In his communication. devoted
himself to the general consideration
upon the role which photography ought
to play in medical Jurisprudence. Yes,
AA #4OOV AAS IN NAAAb W NAAN 1AAS1
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
inals, their deformities, their scars.
their t~attooings. 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 IS
years since they were discovered, and
now they seem as natural as that two
and two make four. In rs 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
md 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
to make photographs? Today every
thing that Vernois demanded in 1860
has been done, and I'm truth the instan-
taneous photograph has almost super
seeded the minutes of an investigation.
(Contiaued Next Weekl