Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1917 — HOW SCIENCE AIDS POLICE [ARTICLE]

HOW SCIENCE AIDS POLICE

Detective of Modern School Finds It Necessary to Have Chemist Close at Hand. The modern detective when out on investigation of a murder finds it almost imperative to have a chemist close at hand ready to analyze bloodstains, clothing, or any other article. At the New York police headquarters two or three chemiSts are always in readiness to be rushed off with their handbags full of chemicals, microscopes, and other instruments to the seat of some crime. These chemists have all the latest scientific inventlons at hand when working in their special laboratory, including high-pow-er microscopes and apparatus for photographing blood stains. Other chemists are employed on the work of analyzing drugs, such as cocaine, opium and morphia. Some are hard at it making minute Investigatiops of scraps of dust,, cloth, rubber, and metal. They are often even required to test the scrapings from beneath fingernails, and the dirt on the soles of the shoes of some dead person must be investigated In order to find out whether the body has been conveyed from another locality to the one in which it was discovered.