Deseret Evening News | 1908-11-10 | Page 6 | Phonographs to Take Murderers' Statements

PHONOGRAPHS TO TAKE MURDERERS STATEMENTS Chicago Nov Not 10 That figure of speech Listening to a voice the grave has become a lug Ing reality Any to verify this state statement S ment has only to visit the office of Cot Coroner oner Hoffman some mionie in tho near future and hear the of murderers making their last denials or ur detailed confessions after timey havo paid the penalty for their misdeeds Those These voices of the dead henrI aio OtO to be become come a portion of the th county records will take their place among the musty tiles of tho office olilee timid and when necessary may be bc used In court This Thu verbal statement of bf a man who is dead seldom finds Its way Into except as repeated by an another other oIlier hut but this is ono of tile tho of the now system The phonographs already havo haie been heeti used in ono on important minder ease case that of Mrs Fannie Thompson who was strangled In a Michigan avenue Tile The story of laiman C Mann Mamma ac tie accused of being the Ra Ramond flay mond who rented the room in iii which the woman was murdered has been to QUO of the tho and amid may bo be hoard hard among the other othir voices which the coronet coroner is preserving In lii phonographs