The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
SEX OF JAW FRAGMENT.

they are thin and attenuated the signs
point to woman. II club-shaped man
is indicated, and II air cells are found
his beard rathen than his scalp was
the source"
HAS this hair test solved any muir
der mysteries as yet?'
Many. In recent German case
the life Of a suspected murderer Ut
orally hung upon a hair. Two men
were suspected of the crime. but only
q single hair, found upon the clothing
| of the victim, supplied the connecting
link 1t was photomicrographed with
samples from the heads OF the sus-
poets, but the pictures when printed
showed marked differences in structure
| and tint Then hairs from other pos
sible suspects Were subjected to the
| same test, with equally negative re-
suits. Then the expert referred to
| his Justification. and after checking up
| series of tests concluded that the
| hair found upon the victim was from
| an old yellow slickcoated dog. FOL
lowing this clue, he found that one OF
the suspects had owned just such
| dog, fresh hairs from which conformed
| in every detail with that found upon
the corpse, and upon this evidence tho
owner of the dog was held He finally
| confessed that he alone committed the
| crime.
| Hair clutched in the stiffened fingers
/ of Miss Schafer. victim of the Schafer
murder case at Bedford. Indiana, was
| the only clue to her slayer. Being
curly and black, 1t Indicated to the
| police that negro had committed
the crime and a black man was at
| once under suspicion. But Louisville
| expert found by this photomicrograph
test that the hairs We're from white
| man. So, you see. race as we'll as
| sex and species can be determined by
this powerful instrument Some one
| in the world has lock of Belle
Elmore's hair put away among his
graph will compare it with the strands
| found beneath Hilldrop Crescent's
house of mystery. and If they are
| from the heads of different persons
the contrast VII appear as great as
/ though you compared the trunk OF
a stately oak with that of button
wood or birch.
Find Blood Spots by CnndIclight.
] BLOOD tests, too, will have an i'm
4 portant bearing upon the Crippen case
If a skilled medico-legal specialist has
been called in he has already exam.
med every procurable garment OF the
SUSPECTS. If the clothes are dark, he
takes them into a dark room and eX-
anines them by candlelight, which
readily shows any dark stains invis-
J ible in other kinds Of light, espec-
tally that from the sun. Next. &c
learn If the spots are probably what ne
IS looking for, he throws upon them
reflected lighv, in which dried blood
shows UP with a characteristic gloss
But all Of this is merely preliminary
human life hangs upon the test, and
the most Infinite care must be eNer-
cised Bits of the stained cloth are
cut out and soaked In distilled water
A beam Of light is passed through the
tube containing the solution and thence
through a prism which divides the ray
Il into color bands. 4 certain proportion
| Of which are black II blood Is IN the
tube. Thus we find blood But wha
kind of blood?
"rhe defendant, finding the accus
ing finger Of science pointed right int;
his face, admits. say. that 1t Is blood
nut denies that 1t is human blood
Ha contends that he killed hen FOL
dinner and that during Its gyration'
after the beheading he got caught II
sanruinary shower. In reply to thu
~ tha eynert dissolves another blood spo
With chemical and places the huil
= under his microscope, which hlghE
e magnlhes the corpuseles' II they ar
h oval he knows that they are from al
- epr-1aylng animal, and the hen-klll
a ing ing theory is corroborated. But !
= they are round the test shows ina
the blood was from milk-glvlnl
species-a mammal-but whether ma
~ heast the expert cannot say as ye'
Tor mans corpuscles are the sam
under the microscope as those OF a,
mammals except the camel Unit
very recently, then. we could go g, \, n
farther than to say that susp'o.u wv
m blood was from some mammal hu
q camel. but whether dogs, cat
8 horses. cows or apes we could a no
. saw But recently some Europea
specialists have discovered e =, We
method Of distinguishing human p'u ~
!. from that of other mammals. y, :
vlbetter explain this let me take 20
\ into the menas<srie ~,
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