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Show ! Another task is now set for J science. The Rev. Mr. Uayden is on ( trial in Connecticut for the murder of Mary E. Stannard, a -oung lady who, it h alleged, was first e'.duced by him. Tho ci'so ws prugrtirj; favorably lur the accused, wluai hi pocket-knife was produ-.t-d Ivarir-g stains on the b'.ide, which I'.-dlcsxir : White of Yale co:iege examined with his microscope ud pronounced' human blood. The defence then proved that Hayden's son frequently -uuedtbo knife, and th buy's handrt Bhowed scars where te bad cut them. Professor White went farther with his testimony, and aeeeried that the blocd corpuscles on il.e knife corresponded corre-sponded with indue found on the murdered girl's bount t, and on the club with which bhe bud been struck; but be could not say whether lhe tup blood was that of a boy or a woman. What science will have to' do now, ia to ascertain how to dis-tiuguiahbetween dis-tiuguiahbetween "male and lemale blood. |