| Show tWE f N JhfO I READ f31LOOf How New Yorks Chemical Detective Detec-tive a Scientific Sherlock Holmes in Real Life Ferrets Out Poisoners Murderers and Other Criminals When the Only Clue He Has Is a BloodStained Garment a Fingerprint Finger-print or a Faint Trace of Poison When the drtertlvrs searched tho room In which tho murder hind been committed they fount one or two claws which mny nslablliih tho Identity Iden-tity of the mysterious murderer and tend to his arrest The first wns a mans handkerchief handker-chief of fine quality In one corner were several tiny drops of blood BliowliiK that the hnndkurchlcf had been used to stanch a very small wound such UH a plnprlck or a scratch or a pimple Die most Important find of all was on the Inner side of the door panel where tho bloody Imprint of a thumb and three finger tips wan visible The portion of tho door bearing the telltale fingerprints hits been cut out and sent with the handkerchief to the laboratory of the chemical detective An Important Impor-tant arrest It Is announced will follow fol-low tho experts analytical examination examina-tion of tho evidence now In his possession pos-session Now York Hero Is a typical caao for tho chemical detective tho man who reads blood Substituting a test tube and powerful mlscroscopo for the ordinary detectives revolver and handcuffs this scientific expert of tho police department sets out to track down the murderer and the poisoner With a drop of blood an empty polson bottle a bloody finger mark or a hastily scrawled notu as his only clew to work on he exerts tho whole force of his scientific knowledge as a probe to got to the bottom of the mystery mys-tery or at least to find some slight clew which may eventually lead to a solution and to the arrest of the criminal crim-inal The chemical detective owing to his success in solving many recent murder mysteries is now regarded asa as-a very Important and necessary adjunct ad-junct of the detective bureau in Now York and other important cities lIe Is the man who reads that which to the average unscientific would be unintelligible un-intelligible He subjects the bloodstained handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs and other garments submitted submit-ted to him by the police and detectives detec-tives to certain microscopical and chemical tests considers his findings in conjunction with every other scrap of information his expert chemical knowledge Is able to develop about the case and then he reports advising the detectives to look for a consump tivelooking man about 28 years old dark complexion three gold teeth the center one suspended from a bridge Then follows a general description of tho man which in view of the facts th export chemical detective has been nlq to deduce may be considered fairly accurate Seldom Meet Failure As cunningly and carefully as the regular police detective follows the dark and winding alleys of the city in Urn search of a clew that will lead j him to the culprit just so carefully does the chemical detective follow the channels of the body In his search for a clow to the poison or other cause that led to the death of the victim No subterfuge however cunning can throw these unerring sleuths of the body off tho trail according to a writer in tho New York World The resources of latterday chemistry with patience and perseverance can extort from the body of a man long dead and burled the secret which his destroyers destroy-ers vainly Imagine went to tho graves grave-s with him E No mOre subtle crime exists than that of poisoning Its detection Is possible pos-sible only to the acute analytical mind of tho scientific man who has devoted the greater part of his life to the study of chemistry Its victim Is attacked i without being given a chance to escape Jt es-cape fhe user of poison Is a coward but his cowardice la accompanied by a cunning that often proves moro than a match for tho keenest old slylo detectives de-tectives In tho world E Varying Detective Work It is with a convenient disguise perhaps a false mustache or beard and a revolver hi his lip pocket that the detective starts out on his search for a criminal It Is with a test tube and a Bunsen lump that the chemical detectives begins his search perhaps fortho same Identical lawbreaker Each is taking desperate chances Death lurks behind every dark corner and In every collarway for the first and In deadly gases and poisons for the latter lat-ter Yet by their widely divergent paths they often arrive at the same end endThe The man who Is following his clew I through the alleys and the hallways of the tenements is at a great advantage advan-tage however over his brother detective detec-tive the chemist The former has rarely to start his investigation without with-out u clew of some character the latter lat-ter must begin In complete darkness I The lolcctlvc who mingles dally with the men of crlmo must bo keen of oye and ear but In the end If ho excels In his profession It IB largely his Instinct that tells him when ho Is close on the trail of a criminal The chemical detective on the contrary i con-trary must ho and Is equally as Keen i of eye and ear but his Intlnct can avail him nothing Ho can guess at nothing Ho must know Ho can take nothing for granted Each and every clew must prove Itself before he can place any estimate on Its value Typical Poison Expert There Is no keener tracer of poison In this city than Prof Charles A Doremus More than six feet In height as straight as a gun barrel with gray eyes that peer out keenly from beneath heavy brows ho Is atypical a-typical chemical detective His powerful pow-erful vigorous frame bespeaks the physical endurance necessary to pursue pur-sue to the very end a trying and difficult diffi-cult tIn t-In his connection with famous poisoning pois-oning cases In Now York Prof Doro inua has demonstrated great keenness an dablllty Ho detected antimony and arsenic In the body of Gustav H Baum Dr Henry Meyer was convicted convict-ed of having administered tho poison Without the assistance of the chemical detective It Is possible that this mystery mys-tery would never have been solvent A man and a woman applied one morning at the office of a large Insurance Insur-ance company to collect the Insurance of a man said to bo the husband of tho woman In answering the questions ques-tions of the Insurance officials the couple became somewhat evasive and embarrassed Their confusion led to a i r I x Prof Charles A Doremus One of the Greatest of Chemical Detectives I more thorough Investigation Tho body of the dead man was exhumed In tho presence of Prof Ooromus and score of prominent physicians no trace of anything unusual was found on the body A most careful examination examina-tion failed to reveal anything that would even prompt a suspicion of poison The circumstances of the mans death and the character of Ills companions however made the Insurance Insur-ance company persist In Its Investigations Investiga-tions Long and Careful Search The heart lungs liver kidneys brain and In fact nearly every internal Inter-nal organ of the dead man were taken from tho body hermetically scaled In jars and taken to thin laboratory of Prof Doremus Then began a persistent per-sistent search for poison There was no clew There was nothing noth-ing to aid the chemical detective In his search The entire case was a negative one This only course open to him was by a process of elimination elimina-tion to seek the poison If a poison It was that caused the death of the mail First ho searched for the volatile poisons such aa chloroform ether and prussic acid Patiently he sat for hours at a time watching one test after another waiting for a precipitate that would show him a trace of the poison he was seeking None came Then he tested for vegetable poisons pois-ons such as morphine strychnine atropine and the alkaloid poisons The same tedious process through which he had gone once had to be gone through again And still there was no trace of poison There still remained tho mineral poisons such as lead copper arsenic and antimony And In tho tests for these was there at last a reward for the persistency of the detective Ho found arsenic in large quantities and what was far moro rare distinct traces of antimony I Proved Three Murders It was tho persistency of Prof Dorcmus the chemical detective in that case which sent Dr ileyer to prison for life It was through the persistency and nltlll of the same dc Uctlvo that the conviction of Dr Buchanan accused of murdering his wife with morphine was secured It was through the skill of chemical detectives de-tectives that the conviction of Carlyle Harris accused of poisoning Ma wife with morphine was secured It was the chemical detectives that furnished the strongest evidence for the prosecution prosecu-tion of Albert T Patrick and many others The chemical detectives work in bloodrending tests requires a most extensive ex-tensive knowledge of the actions of various kinds of poisons on the human body By carefully testing the blood he Is often able to tell the exact cause of death the kind of poison used and how It was administered Tho Importance Im-portance of this In cases where the most careful autopsy reveals practically practical-ly I nothing will be readily understood In handwriting tests the chemical detective who In this way has come to bo identified as a handwriting ox pert will often spend long hours studying study-Ing one Insignificant little letter a under his mlscroscope and comparing It with other samples of handwriting It Is In this way that tiny clews havo boon found leading on to other and G 5 lii t Tracing a Murderer by Means of a BloodStained Garment stronger clews and from there to complete com-plete solutions of some of the most complicated crimes on record 2iLj2 y r r 1 t q o fvtZ e t t = = 1 The Chemical Detectives Testimony In the Baum Poisoning Mystery Alone Convicted Dr Henry Meyer of Having Administered the Poison uuuuu uu slight that may lead to the detection of a criminal Real Value of ChemhU Tho chemists value is undoubtedly greatest in homicide cases Where a life has been taken no effort must bo spared to bring the culprit to justice It Is often however long and tedious thing resembling a bird The idea caught on and now the box tree bird is seen in the halls of many houses Pew pots of ferns and palms are seen these days for housekeepers housekeep-ers say the modern house is too warm and the outer air is too dust laden td grant long life or freshness to growing grow-ing things |
