The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 62

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING' NOVEMBER 1 1038 Were -w 1: A r-T-Tfr'-T-VISm -o Murder in: I Legation Row? Startling New Facts Scientific Detective -Work -MV yaw MUTUAL BLUDGEON tills Is (lie of the 2-Fot-L)ing Iron I- iirimco Slinkor Which Bushed in Mrs riumiro Ifoarl in Mysterious Murder ol lrgiillmi lioH" Homy (it'nllo Taji Willi 11 Would Kill -fr aflSS 1 i 1 -US o'1 x' MERCIFULLY SHE DII) NOT AWAKEN Mrs Florence Dougherty Goodwin Below Washington IT Rooming House Keeper and Government Ernjiloje TIu1 Drawing Illiislrnles 'rnph1pnlly llow Slio Met a Horrible Deafh Jtos -Ml- v- h'Atv v- t'? -4 v'-'V v- J5a mm a jut -V- I rA ft 'J t- 7 i --v iz v- i Dr Oscar Hunter Nationally Known Pathologist He Made the Discoveries That Trapped the Accused Killer In Murder of Le'gutioh NSW v' mm By Jack Martin Distinguished Crime Reporter CRIME 'reporters everywhere and I regret that I have been guilty sometimes) too frequently have excused the authorities for their failure to solve a murder or safe cracking or gem robbery by the simple statement "there were no The detective who says that confesses that he know his trade The reporter in this day and age who puts it into his story Is a gullible fellow unfitted for his responsibilities No'clues? Nonsense! Impossible! There MUST be clues for if there then how Would anyone suspect that for Instance a murder was not a death from natural causes? That ever is not the case in point Scientific crime detection apparatus In general use today will uncover literally hundreds of clues that are not? visible tp the- naked eye And the modern detective has become so adept that he can all but describe the guilty criminal by simply studying the methods used to commit the crime So the overworked "no alibi is as definitely outmoded as the bicycle mounted patrolman Before taking up a current murder Investigation to illustrate this fact it might be pointed out that the scientific detective does things today that ten years ago probably would have been called miracles For years medical men have" been abe to trace a fatal dose of arsenic poison by autopsy Now the scientific detective can establish definitely just when each poison dose was administered Including the final and fatal sipped potion leaves deposits under the fingernails and in the hair By measuring the growth of fingernails and hairs the dates come from Simple mathematical calculations By microchemistry scientists recently were able to say definitely that -A 7 t' iff Lieut John Fowler Ballistics and Fingerprint Eipert of heVashlngton Police Department 9 two men found dead in a New York City basement and believed to have died naturally had In reality gone to the basement planning to fire the building Analysis of minute particles-of their brains disclosed the presence of benzine and gasoline With this fact at hand investigators -then found a pile of combustible material which had been soaked with the Inflammable fluids Fumes from the benzine and gasoline had asphyxiated the men before they could do their vicious work It recently has been discovered that COUNT Brunettes Have 100000 Hairs in Their Heads Blondes 150-000 and Red Heads Only '50000 And Every Hair Is a Clue Scientists Can Tell All About You from Your Hair the pattern formed by the network of blood vessels In the retina of the eye is different for each individual In the near future law enforcement agencies will keep photographic records of this pattern as a permanent means of identification A criminal who might readily sacrifice his finger tips to wipe out his fingerprints would certainly think twice before allowing his sight to be destroyed Palm prints and heel prints are now generally accepted as valuable identification marks Pranzinl the infamous European ruffian who murdered three people and went to great lengths to leave no marks behind him was convicted by his heel print He actually stripped in order to run no risk of getting his garments stained with blood but one time he trod on a polished surface and hia heel print caused hia ('apt Ira Keck Alert Assistant Chief of Detectives In Washington Who Helped to Solve the Crime capture and sent him to the guillotine The illustrious Bertlllon the French father of the science of fingerprinting once stated that the ear was the' beet all-round means of identification But the greatest progress has been made in analysis of hair The time seems very near indeed whfen hair follicles will be classified along with fingerprints and they will be equally valuable in identification A current murder investigation in the nation's capltol seems to offer the best example this week to prove And then the officers discovered that all doors of the residence had been locked that morning and that no windows had been tampered with Obviously the crime must have been an committed either by someone in the house or someone who had "a key 'to tt The roomers were quickly-exonerated and then in checking over employes suspicion fell upon the negro houseboy Carl Chase 25 an in- tellectual looking' student at Upward university Chase was questioned Immediately Feature! Syndicate Inc 4 4 v't and on his shirt the detectives found a damaging fleck of blood There was another on hia trousers The officer scraped his fingernails and found two bits of blue silk lint Mrs Goodwin had been sleeping in a blue silk nightgown Chase swore he was innocent and produced witnesses to swear that he had not entered the house until 7:30 that morning He claimed that the blood on hia clothing was bis own blood spattered there when he had cut himself shaving Detectives also had taken into custody Norman Wesley Robinson 35 and six feet tall who had been janitor of the house a few months earlier Scrapings from fingernails also produced some blue silk lint and-his shirt was bloodstained too The bloodstained clothing and both fingernail scrapings were turned over to Dr Oscar Hunter a pathologist of International reputation for analysis And Dr Hunter's report was enlightening Indeed! First of all hia chemical tests proved definitely that the blue lint under the fingernails of each man had positively come from Mrs Goodwin's nightgown The lint had come from the aami loom had been woven into tha same garment and dyed with the tanae dye Next Dr Hunter quickly established that Mr blood waa Type Two Only five per cent of the human race haa Type Two blood The blood dlecovered on clothing waa Type ThreeJThe blood on Rob-- shirt was Type Two the asms aaMrs Goodwin's Tha flnger of auspiclon turned to Robin-eon and-" especially since Chase" as houseboy might Innocently have gotten the blue lint under hia fingernails while ite preaence under Robinson's finger-nails indicated that he had prowled through his ex-- home illegally Chase the houseboy was 1 exonerated of all suspicion in the murder In the Washington police records 1 a confession of the crime signed by Roblnsen The detective say that he re-enacted the murder for them In every detail and that he told them he had gone to rbb buC had been frightened away without getting any loot Murder in Legation Ja a perfect example of thtf use of modern science in modern police work put this is ohly a beginning The future holds many more scientific miracles the efficiency of science in criminal detection The crime will go Into history as Murder In Legatfon for it waa in the former Venezuelan Legation in Sixteenth Street now a fashionable rooming house where Mrs Florence Dougherty Goodwin waa found horribly alaln one recent morning The body waa found by a roomer Mrs Goodwin who had operated the rooming house in connection with her office work at a government depart- long and blood marked waa found ln ment apparently had been slain as she a boiler in the basement slept Her neck' had- been torn and crushed by strong fingers Her head waa mashed by a heavy Weapon She waa sprawled on a red studio couch in her quarters: Captain Ira Keck the Assistant (ihlef of Detectives in Washington and Lieut John Fowler ballistics and fingerprint expert both extremely' efficient police officers took -charge of -case Coroner A Magruder MacDonald guessed the woman had been killed in the early rfiorriing hours and' the detectives quickly established the Copyright 1936 King.