Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-13 | Page 16 | Part Played by Science in Crime Detection Shown

Part Played by Science in Crime Detection Shown Medical Association Features Exhibit of Famous Cases to Prove Value By Dy WILLIAM WILLIAl L. L LAURENCE MILWAUKEE Wi Wis June 13 A A veritable museum mus um of modern crime with several hundred Illustrations Illustrations of the latest methods of scientific cIen- cIen crime detection was presented today oday before several thousand leading physicians and md surgeons from this country and abroad at the opening of the exhibit of the fourth eighty-fourth annual session of ot the American Medical Medical Medi Medi- cal association The exhibit one of a large number of other exhibits was prepared d by Dr Charles Norris chief chic medical examiner examiner examiner ex ex- of New York City Dr Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander O. O Gettler chief New York City toxicologist of Bellevue hospital and Dr Harrison S. S Martland chief medical examiner of or Essex count county New lew Jersey It shows in a manner more thrilling than ban any crime fiction how medicine toxicology and chemistry are aiding the lie police in solving some of the most baffling crime mysteries in recent accent times imes NOTED CRIME CASES Two of the items which drew large crowds of ot fascinated physicians aUday all aU allay allday day ay relate respectively to the Judd Ruth Gray Sn Snyder der murder case and the he mysterious death by drowning in 1931 off the coast of ot Long Island of starr tarr Faithful In the Snyder Gray case the exhibit exhibit ex- ex hibit libit brings to light a hitherto unknown unknown un- un known cnown fact which adds a more sinister sinister sinis- sinis ter cr and dramatic aspect to that mur- mur der er A small vial shows a quantity of f whisky given by Ruth Snyder to Judd udd Gray after the murder which nc he c was to drink on his way home from rom Queens village to to Syracuse The vial contained enough poison Dr said to kill several people people peo- peo le thus showing that Mrs Snyder plotted to poison her lover after he had lad helped her to kill her husband It was only by mere chance it was learned earned later that Gra Gray did not drink rink it Gray Dr Gettler told the clans ians offered the liquor to the detectives detectives de- de who arrested him but the detectives took it along as further evidence This evidence was never presented resented at the trial which resulted in n the conviction of Mrs Snyder and Gray and their death in the electric chair hair at Sing Sing prison SECOND CASE The Starr Faithful exhibit shows two wo vials containing a sleeping drug recovered from the dead girls girl's brainand brain brainand and nd liver A total amount of 12 grains was recovered sufficient to produce a deep sleep The legend explaining the vials reads eads Chemical analysis revealed that the le chloride content of the blood of ofie the ie left heart chamber w was s considerably considerably consid- consid higher than that of ot the blood ot of f the right heart chamber proving conclusively that death was caused by y drowning in salt water Further analysis revealed a large amount mount of ot the drug in all aU the organs The total estimated amount in the enire entire en en- tire ire body was about 12 grains This amount mount indicated that the girl was in deep cep sleep when she reached the water She could not have jumped Into the ie water She must have been thrown irown in DEFINITE FACTS Thus a definite scientific solution solutions solutionis is s offered for a mystery which baffled fled ed the police here and abroad and which still Is regarded as generally a 3 case o of suicide particularly in the light ight of ot letters written by the girl irl Just before she died Th The two little vials reconstruct the theory story ory of her tragic death as though she ie had herself hersel come back to tell it She he either had taken or or had given to her a large dose of ot the drug When she ie was in deep sleep she was thrown into nto the water to drown I