| Show photography in color may be crime weapon SALT LAKE CITY utah jan 3 UP color photography has baa rea reached ched a stage of development where salt lake lacci cites police sergeant AH A H rogers r believes it can be employed as aa an effective deterrent to crime anda and a powerful weapon in the hands of prosecuting attorneys rogers inventor of many crime detecting devices and methods heads the cites identification bureau his experience has led him to believe color photography would be particularly effective in the courtroom banking on the belief that through unfamiliarity with cases legal niceties and other reasons juries miss considerable detail in photographs shown them of scenes of a crime rogers would photograph these scenes in natural color show juries natural color photos for instance expounded rogers when a conventional black and white picture of a murder scene id shown a jury they have no means ica bof knowing that black spots on the floor are bloodstains photographers are not allowed to make any comments on them matter of fact the word blood la is forbidden unless the stains have been examined and identified by an e expert with color photography the stains would show plainly for what they are since ordnary ordinary photographers are forbidden to retouch police evidence photographs in any manner rogers Is now nov working on aj a three color dip process prices which he hopes will bring out natural colors even evenin in conventional black and white photographs the new russian constitution seems to give the russian voters political freedom so long as matuey they vote the communist ticket |
