Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
GODDARD TESTING
CAMPBELL PISTOL
Bullets Fired Into Special
Target to Be Compared
With Fatal SIugs.
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turned here this morning and was at
his laboratories early.
After receiving from the agent a
sketchy outline of the Baker mystery,
Col. Goddard took the carefully guard
ed articles and began his study of them
| His first move was to insert several
shells into the revolver and fire them
into q container of waste material in
the unique firearms range installed in
his crime clinic" The waste pre-
vented the bullets from becoming dis
torted by the impact.
Placed Under Microscope.
The test bullets then were removed
from the strange target and one of
them was placed beneath one of the
two high-powered lenses distinguishing
the Gravelle Ballistic microscope, an
instrument largely developed as a result
of Col. Goddard's researches. Under
the second eye" of this microscope
Mary Bakers body.
The two images were merged by the
instrument so that what Col. Goddard
saw was a greatly enlarged bullet, half
of which was the front portion of the
test bullet and the other half the butt
end OF the 1aCal slug.
The bullets were mounted on axes SO
that each could be turned by the motion
Of a finger. On each slug were curv-
ing grooves and masses of scratches and
other blemishes made by the rifiing of
the gun from which they were shot.
Brought thus together these marks were
to tell the story of their origin.
DR.. SOuder has reported the grooves
and scratches merged with one another
H. a, 1<1 AIanA
the test bullets and the fatal slugs
came from the muzzle of the same gun,
viz, the revolver voluntarily turned over
to police by the accused man.
Remarkable Success.
The curious workshop of Col. God
dard and his assistants is located in a
university building overlooking Lake
Shore drive
In the seclusion of these laboratories
Dr. Goddard has brought his art into
play with remarkable success. Just re-
Gently he conducted gun tests that
aided materially in establishing owner
ship of the gun used in the Staying OF
Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter.
Associated with Goddard in his work
are q number of internationally famed
crime experts. including Inspector
Ferdinand Watseek of Vienna, author
plaster casts in police identification;
DR.. Clarence w. Muehlberger, toxicolo-
gist; August Vollner. adviser to the
Presidents Law Enforcement Commits
sion, and Leonardo Keeler of lie detector
note.
The laboratories are equipped with
the latest devices known to science in its
war against crime. The rooms for the
study of forensic ballistics-which is
the science of ullet identification as
it applies to jurisprudence-occupy a
major part Of the space. At the rear OF
the suite is a firearms testing range, its
walls lined with steel, where test bull
let's are fired from suspected guns. Adj
joining this range is q bullet store
room, in which are kept the gruesome
bits of evidence pending examination.
There is safe for these bullets, and
the combination Is known only to God
dard.
Along the north wall Of another room.
advantageously situated with regard to
daylight, are the curious microscopes,
Of Goddard's own design, used in exam
lining the tiny grooves and scratches
imprinted on the leaden slugs by the
"fngerprints" of the barrel.
Near the center of the suite is what
appears to be sort of torture cham
ber." where every conceivable type of
criminal weapon is on display for study
and comparison. Guns of all deScrip-
tons from crlIel-looking submachine
guns to sawed-off shotguns are there.
There also is a library on crime, con-
tanning books and treatises on crime in
many languages, and two chemical lab
oratories for the toxicologist, DR.. Muehl-
berger.
Souvenirs Of Cases.
Along the walls of the laboratory Office
are many photographs Of guns, bullets
and Notwithstanding of cases upon
which Goddard has employed his highly
specialized science.
The laboratories have a considerable
STAFF of clerks and non-technical as
sistants, in addition to the stan of ex-
pertS.
Col. Goddard Is reserve lieutenant
colonel in the Ordnance branch of the
Army. but during the World War was
a surgeon with the Army Medical Corps
He graduated from the Army Medical
School in 1917 and served as a major in
France, Poland and Germany until his
resignation in 1920.
He was director of the Bureau of Fo-
rensic Ballistics in New York and is a
members of numerous scientific So
cieties, including the Institute on
Criminal Law and Criminology, the In
ternational Association for Indentifica-
ton, and so forth.
His home is in Richmond, Va.