The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31
CHEMISTS REVISE
CRIME DETECTION
Feats Of Physicist in the
Solution Of Grimes
True; Wonderful

PARIS, Dec. 25.--A chemist, OF re-
,,rt Years has become the best
l,rovn detective in France. Edmond
UlyIa is q small dark, quiet man; he
,garFs in a modem equipped labora
,ory i'm the Palais de Justice: he Is
fo3red by criminals OF all classes, and
bfa Ultimate fame promises TO sur
Tg.- that u Alphonse Bertillon. the
French fingerprint expert who died
." b6gtor Rayle IS chief Of the tech
,ir4r bureau Of tho Paris police de
n9rtuont. Here all the criminal in
f7-ra.on OF the republic is concen-
trat.d. classified and studied. From
tbis bureau, the expert chemist and
nby4Ir.st gives directions in the field
~ criminal detection. SO successful
has n been that the ignorant GRIM
tral classes have come to regard him
os n worker in "black magic" His
uniaue methods have been etudied
bv The police department Of New
York city. Doctor Bayle rarely
giy.s much attention to the person
9Iv OF criminals or their particular
psyeh0loEy He works rather with
material things. His workshop con-
eIsts Of many rooms and passage
ways. equipped with all the para
rheunalia OF a big industrial labora-
tory. and includes a photograph
gallery. lie has spectroscopes, mic
ros-0pes and X-ray machines by the
dozen, each fitted for special pur-
nose such as examining blood spots
forged documents, counterfeit mon
CIV. powder burned clothes, and the
wreckaEe that is picked up on a
criminal trail.
Doctor Bayle's study Is lined with
books on science, and cataloE rec
ords Of his work. In the records OF
his bureau, there are registered no
less than eight million names of ger
sons involved in crimes, past and
present.
"Tho detection of crime today is
something very different from the
popular conception" said Doctor
Bayle to the Associated Press corre-
spondent. THE Sherlock Holmes
and Arseue Lupin stories OF great
criminals and their feats are, no
doubt, most entertaining, but that is
all can say for them. From my
uoint Of view, there is no crime that
cannot be detected, that does not
leave it's traces behind, at least thco-
reucally. For one thing criminals,
as a rule, are not very intelligent.
The uueduCated man usually COM
mits crimes OF passion and brutalityi
the educated man runs to fraud.
MY methods astound the ignorant
criminals, and they have come to
fear me when I enter the courts. The
so-called Intelligent professional
criminals seem to have begun to try
to thwart me, in a small way. Now
adays they endoavor, by wearing
gloves not to leave fingerprints be-
n Nafr,f
where their fingerprints through
gloves can be detected.
Crime is really not very mysteri-
Gus. The curious point 10 me is that
the crimes which interest me most
do not interest the public.
There has been very great pro-
gress made in the detection of crime
during the past six or eight years,
particularly through the application
Of chemistry and photography to de-
tectlon.
In my opinion. we arS not yet IN
sight OF crimeless civilization.
Crime is part of human nature.
Much Of IL is spontaneous. The fear
Of detection and punishment will not
prevent it,
Il would like to point out that part
Of our endeavor has been 10 help 70
protect innocence, and prevent the
miscarriage Of justice, Science does
not seek to convict. II looks for the
truth, no more and no less.
During the war spy casa. that
Of a certain Vigo. alias Almereyda,
attracted much public attention.
The man was found dead In his cell,
= and there were those who claimed he
had been assassinated there. The
only evidence was two spots on his
shoe laces. BY comparative analysis
OF these. one 1 found to be mud and
the other paint off his bed and I
was able TO conclude he had hanged
himself and thus clear the Jallers OF
guilt
Another case: during the war,
young captain wrote his mother the
night before q battle in which he was
Killed. A postscript TO the letter re-
voked former will in favor OF his
wife. By analysis Of the ink and the
handwriting in this postscript, II was
shown that the mother had forged
his signature. She confessed 1t,
though her confession added nothing
10 the value OF the proof.
We are beginning 10 eliminate
eyewitness proof in crime. We pre-
fer our own, as eyewitnesses distort
the facts without soRetimes wishing
IN. Science cannot Ne"