Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — Convicted by a Thermometer. [ARTICLE]

Convicted by a Thermometer.

In connection with the death of Dr. Whitelaw of Kirkintilloch, Scotland, an interesting story is told of his early career. Being called up one night he was walking along with the messenger when he was set upon and knocked down in a lonely part of the road. His pockets were rifled and ho was left lying on the road severely injured. One of the articles stolen was a clinical thermometer with which he had that evening taken the temperature- of a patient He remembered the temperature registered, also that he had not shaken down the mercury before putting the thermometer back in his pocket and he communicated these facts to the police. Some time afterward a thermometer registering the Identical temperature was discovered in a pawnshop in Glasgow and by this means the police were enabled to track the doctor’s assailants and to them.