Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-19 | Page 7 | Heart Beats Are Counted

HEART BEATS ARE COUNTED To Determine the Veracity Ver-acity of a Witness in Court Los Angles, Jan. 19. What, was believed be-lieved to have been tho flrsi: demonstration demon-stration in actual court of justice of tho Munsterberg theory of criminal detection by heart pulsations, occurred occur-red yesterday In the office of Justice of the peace Cassldy, at Watts. Tho demonstration ended In the discharge of Arthur Smith, a metal worker from Tacoma, who had been arrested as a suspicious cnaracter When first asked his name the prisoner gave It as James Smithers. He had consented to be a party to tho experiment and his normal pulse was found to be 79. It increased to 91 beats when he told his name and Justice Cassldy told him ho was not telling the truth. His heart then beat at, tho rate of 95. After a few seconds hesitation, the man replied: "Arthur Smith is my right name, but I'm an honest wo'rklngmari and no vagrant. I'm sorry I lied but I have relatives in the north'