Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — A MURDERER CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

A MURDERER CAUGHT.

Tell Tale Image |n the Victim’s Eye Le<l to His Arrest. A Jamestown, N- Y., special, Dec. 26, says: The arrcst of George W. Depew oq suspicion of being the murderer of Mrs. Winslow Shearman and her daughter, Mrs. Clinton, has caused much excitement here. One or two persons who saw him say that his appearance corresponds with the description of the image of thq man seen in Mrs. Shearman's eye as it standing in a stooping position. The djs-> mission over the possibility of identifying a murderer by the image left on the retina of the victim’s eye has therefore been revived with groat Intensity Several of those who saw the image before it was blurred by the removal of the eye from the socket remember the imago so distinctly that they could identify the general outlines of the man’s figure from, it and the half profile revealed in th>i imago Before the removal <4 the eye the imago was sharply defined. Even the' wrinkles on the clothing wero plainly! seen by the al! of the microscope,