With reference to the recent blood test which occurred the other day at the Mixed Court in which a native detective was the defendant, it appears that the "Hsi Yuan Lu"—a standard work on the clearing of mysterious criminal eases," which isa vade mecum with all mandarins who have anything to do with trying criminal cases—has the following comment on blood tests to show that: such a procedure cannot be deemed infallible. The "Hsi Yuan Lu" explains that if a bowl be rubbed at the bottom with a pinch of salt and water be poured into it, blood dropped into the bowl will not mix, but coagulate. So also if well-water, which is generally brackish, is used. In a perfectly clean bowl, filled with fresh river water, blood of any persons dropped in will generally mix. bird December.
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