The daily Alaskan., 1912-09-12
TRACING 4 CRIME.
Clever Detective Work by a Uni
 versity Professor.
THE KEEN EYES OF SCIENCE.
They Detected elosd Where There Were No Apparent Traces of is and Found TeII,sle Finger Marks That Pointed Direct se she Criminal

Mime. Guiau was the wealthy widow of Jean Howard Guian. former presi- dent of the Bank of France. Nine. Guian was seventy years old One night she took train at Fontaine- hleau for Parts. She had to herself a first class compartment When the train arrived In Paris the porters found her compartment uncecupied. The door had been half torn from it's hinges. there was a great pool Of blood on the door. and the police picked up from floor handful of woman's hair, torn piece of skirt and a first class railroad ticket from Foutalnebleau to Paris
 A search along the railroad tracks re- suited ln the finding of Mme. Guisn's body beside the rails just outside Fon. tainebleau. It was greatly mangled. A little fartber on was found the satchei she had carried. There were no rings ou her fingers and DO money ip her pockets.
 Nine. Guians relatives took the ground that she had been seized with a hemorrhace. to which she was sub feet. had tried to open the door ot het compartment to summon aid or to get air; that she had In her paroNysm wrenched the door oren and had fallen oG the train. killing herself. The DO lice were not satisfied with this ex- planation. particularly after Professor Reiss, the famous Lausanne university criminologist. had pointed out that the cut on the wuman's satchei bad been made by a knife and not by a sharp stone. as bad been thought This. how ever. was very little evidence. and Pro lessor Reiss turned his attention to the compartment, which Nlne Guian bad occupied. After he had finished his in. vestigation he went tu NJ Lepine. pre- feet Of Paris. and said to hlm:
 "I am sure that Mme Guian was murdered. and 1 am equally sure that her murderer was soldier In the train compartment there wpre H towel and stationary was0stand There were no stains upon the towel visible to the naked eye. Nevertheless we subjected every square Inch to one of the most delicate tests for blood We at last discovered an area which gave us the positive reaction for human blood
 Upon this towel the murderer of Mne Gpisn wiped his bloody hands He knew that this would be evidence that the old woman did not meet her death by accident as he wished it be lieved. and so be washed the towel thoroughly, as be thought and hung 1t up to dry.
 "The detection then of this micro scopic quantity of blood, which can be removed from fabric only by acids, revealed to us that Mime. Gulan met death by the hands of murderer
 But l found another piece of evi. dence. There was. If you remember, a railroad ticket picked up on the floor. On it's back was the imprint of a thumb. compared 1t with that of Mme. Guian; 1t was not hers. threw its Image up enormously on lantern screen. I was then struck by the pc culiar indentation of the little ridges on the inner side of the mark. Care ful analysis of these marked ridges showed me that this was the thumb of a man who was actually serving as a soldier. The frequent drills with guns result in the pressure upon the ridges of the inner side of the thumb This causes a peculiar fl1tteninE, which Is visible under microscope when en- larged and Is true of no other occupa- ton except that of a soldier.
 AS I reconstruct this crime this sol dier managed to get into Mime. Guian's compartment after the train had left Fontainebleau. He knew that she usu. ally carried q number of jewels and a large sum of money. He tried to rob the old woman, and. meeting with unexpected resistance. fought with her fin the compartment, killing her by beating her head against the register and then stripped the body of It's jew els He thoughtlessly wiped his hand upon the towel He knew that this would be evidence of the presence of some one else in the compartment. so be washes the towel with soap and water, but does not know that we can discover blood even when it is only to the amount of one one-tbousandth mil limetcrs
 He then wrenches the compartment door open and throws out the body. He is pressed for time. rips open the satchel with his knife. Then. taking advantage of the slowing down of the train between Fontainebleau and Paris, he jumps from it and makes his es cape"
 AS result of Professor Reiss' andy. sis it was found that two soldiers, Gra- " and Michel, had followed Mme. Guian to the train on the night of her murder. They had hidden in her com partment. and when the train had started they murdered her, as Profess. or Reiss had indicated. The rest of the reconstruction was proved at the trial of these two men. They both con fessed. were convicted ard sentenced to life imprisonment
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 ~what was that savage animal that