pas Man Huxrens."—By Molvi Davison Port, London, Hutchine jon and Ca. "Brice, 16/ het, Foreign criticisms of crime detect tion methods employed by Seotlond Yard are discussed by Melville Post in "The Man Hunte study of scientific criminal 1 point out that, even in the famous Crippen case, the chief at Scotland Yard reported that he had two clues, where any Continental inves tigator would have had sores, "Instead of following one or twd ines, Continental department would have followed every possible They hold that a erintinay mystery is a sort of web with me dilatory clues; one or two coursd Hines do not exhaust the evidences The number of remaining lines ta bbe discovered will depend on tha degree of minute inspection, Tha eye of a constable will see only tha obvious one, while the trained me vestigator will discover the me Inumerable faint and inconspleuoug evidences.
"On the other hand, Scotland Yard justifies its system on thd ground that criminals must-all feonvieted by a jury, and that juried in England absolutely are not to ba moved by metaphysical refines ments." 1 An Exact Science 1
The author states that for many, years the great Italian authority The centres of Vienna, Berlin. a Paris, have been at work to reduce criminal investigation to an exact, The learned universities given that attention to thd questions involved, Able men hav@ devoted their lives to perfecting methods and devices for the preserve vation and translation of evidential, signs at the place of a crime, Scotland Yard does not, says thd author, seem conscious of the exact devices used every day by the vice de In Surete, across the Ct nel, in Paris. By contrast wil American and British customs thd criminal investigation department of such cities as Vienna and Buda" pest are conducted by a corps of thd fast highly trained and. effieleng experts inthe: world, 4
Men of Knowledge 1
The author points out the type man who is attracted to thd criminal investigation department of the Continental ities. "He says "Authorities like Gross have doe voted their lives to this subject and Kaye elevated criminal—investigas tion to the plane of an established science; and men like Von Brzo" sowsky, of Vienna, have been easily
police experts in the world, tinguished as the most sei "The whole system in Austiq' has the solidarity the permanency sand the certainty of advancement, common to European diplomatic systems, It has an atmosphere of scholarship, of efficiency and die ity... One finds educated gentle men with accomplished manner fand a knowledge of the world at tha hhoad of even petty departments.
The Austrian evi me detection student "will know all about fence ting, shooting, wrestling and thd like. He will be skilled in the process dure and the requirements of polied technique. He will know' foreign languages, telegraphic codes and signals, the composition and nature of explosives, all manner of bomb making, the effect of poisons, marks and physical evidences of every vats {ety of burglar tools, the signifle france of blood: stains, bullet and knife wounds, tracks, finger print all the inal activity. valle de Josaphat ne serut autreg que les jugements des femmes, cone tresignés par Eternel." If that ba so, Napoleon is among the blest, passport to Paradise would bd signed by many women, and not Toast enthusiastically by Betsy, Balcombe, the feather-headed little tomboy whose cheery impudence did so much to mitigate the first throd Helena. years of hig dreary exile on Sty
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