The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1931, Page 2

~NEUN ASNT eee es Ne eT TT TT TTT EECUCUTCT TCC CCC HRB INSU ALN TSU AAEUAATAUATAUHAT TA RUAN TE AAR AUeA TAU MMe ccc i AD APA NAAANNATTN OM rainy vearnctiongenssesaseesusesosenevtacenenens tun HANQMNCOUEUUOACOCATAUOAHACAEEEEUOEREA A AT TD TT TTT UA AA Mexico's Sherlock Holmes N Mexico it is no longer possible to kill your sweetheart or your wife and lay the blame on her fair shoulders by leaving the gun clasped in her hand. Professor Benjamin A. Martinez, head of the Govern- ment Criminology and Identification Labora: tory. has so unfailing a method for detecting powder articles that it is simply not a bit of use to try to pass the buck to the corpse any more. On the other hand, it also often proves that a supposed murderer is innocent and that the person found dead is a suicide. The “Lunge Reagent” is the process by which Professor Martinez makes his most spec- tacular discoveries in the cases ol murder or suicide, Years ago scientists found a reagent which would locate the small particles in powder, but none which could find them when the particles were smaller than the invisible dust particles in the air. The Lunge discovery makes these gun pow- der particles not only visible under the micro- scope, but also to the naked eye. A French criminologist, learning of the discovery, applied it to police work. pee process is simple. Paraffin is poured over the hand, and if any shot has been fired, the particles of gun powder, however tiny, adhere to the paraffin. The paraffin coat- ing is then removed fromthe hand and a re- agent is applied. The particles stand out quite clearly, Deputy Sheriff E. E. Ayres of Los Angeles visited Mexico City recently and witnessed the Lunge method in operation. A baffling case arose upon his return to California and he put the process to the test and proved the case a suicide when an innocent man might have been wrongly accused of murder. Mrs. Marguerite Williams, 22 years of age, of Long Beach, was mortally wounded by a MASQUERADE WEDDING IS NEWEST FAD ees the pipe organs rumbled out “Here Comes the Bride,” in Queen Victoria's day, there was a great deal of fussiness and hifalutin’ pomp and circumstance to the wed- ding. But the quaint costumes of the dignified queen’s time had an appeal that some people are re-discovering these dayy And not long ago, at a very fashionable wedding in St. Mark's Church, London, the fashions of the old days were recalled with a very stunning effect. The wedding was that of Miss Doris Hil- ditch and Dr. Gordon Gould Cameron. The high society folk who crowded the pews got the thrill of the year when the charming brides- maids appeared-—all garbed in the fashions that were worn in the period of 1860 to 1875. Bride and groom dressed in 1931 fashion, of course. But the bridesmaids, who went back to Queen Victoria for their costumes, drew most of the attention. How they dressed for a wedding in Queen . » One of the brides- Victorian revival” wedding in on. Victoria’s days. . maids at the * A NUUAEUAT How a_ bullet passed through the body of a Mexico City woman. . . who was proved by Pro- fessor Martinez to have killed herself. shot in the head. She had been riding with a man triend, who took her to the hospital after the shooting, and as she never recovered consciousness and could not tell what had happened, the police believed that the man had shot her. On Ayres’ gug- gestion, the officials took a paraffin impression of her right hand. Imbedded in the paraffin were found two tiny particles of powder nitrates, lett on her hand after the explosion of the weapon, prov- ing that she had shot herself. The man who had been with her was promptly freed from suspicion. Even more dramatic is the case of the queen of night life in Mexico City, who was found Mexico's Sherlock Holmes . . SvUUOLITNATETC LAAT RUT LULLUA at work in his office in the Mexican capital. dead in her luxurious apartments in the aris- tocratic residence section, Colonia Roma. The police found her body lying crosswise on the bed with her feet hanging on the floor. She had been shot through the chest. NVESTIGATION revealed that she was divorced from her husband and that she had been carrying on a love affair with a well- known professional and society man. The pro- fessional man was the last one seen with her. Perpetual Motion Found at Last--- Life and Death on Artist’s Canvas 'VER since the first curious human being sat down somewhere and began tinkering with his household gadgets, and thereby be- came the world’s first inventor, people have been trying to contrive some sort of machine that would run forever: without running down. Perpetual motion bas been as creat a will- o’-the-wisp to inventors, as the fabled elixir of life was to the alchemists of the middle ages. Modern scientists have proved that no perpet- ual motion machine can ever be made, but the search still goes on, and the United States pat- ent office at Washington still gets models of machines which, the inventors fondly hope, have at last hit on the true principle. But while the inventors struggle and sweat and get nowhere, it has remained for a Vien- nese artist to solve the problem with his brush in the picture which is reproduced above. Art has done what science can never do, and the dream of whole generations of scientists has become a symbol, done in vivid colors against a flaming background, for the eternal succes- sion of birth and death, the final mystery of human life itself. Aches a globe, swung in space against fire-shot clouds, Artist Ludwig Fahrenkrog has placed a see-saw. One one end is death —a skeleton, ‘evilly grinning, holding a coffin in his arms. At the other end, rising against the brilliant light, is life triumphant—an angel aers- ing a tiny baby, which stretches its little hands cut toward the light. Up...down...up... dow always rising, always falling . .' . death in the ascendant, and death overcome . . . s0 has the artist pictured it, finding in the everlasting recurrence of life and death the one perpetual process in all the universe. TIIUAUAUUAUTUTTUU MOLI Ser eC ne, Back in the earliest beginnings, when the earth was a seemingly barren mud ball swung in infinite space, inhabited by primitive life forms, there were two great mysteries . . . life and death. The endless succession contin- ued, down through a myriad of forms that ap- peared, had their day and vanished. Human beings appeared . » in damp caves on mountainsides, in crude huts along tropical rivers . . . and still the see-saw swung, like an eternal pendulum, up and down, up and down, with generation after generation passing on into the shadows and giving way, each in its turn, to new, vibrant life. ‘Wars and famines and pestilences and floods; the whole chain of catastrophes by which the race is periodically decimated, all appeared to take their toll. In the interim each generation did the job that it found, did what it could to lift the race a little bit farther from savagery, found what happiness it could along the way . + and went on, to be succeeded by another. MEN found in death the greatest and most ominous of mysteries . . . and then dis- covered that birth was a greater mystery, a more hopeful one. At times there came periods of deep pessi- mism, when men could think only of death at the upper end of the see-saw. But each was always followed by a new period of faith, when death sank down and triumphant life was in the ascendant. And always the perpetual motion kept on + « steady, inexorable . . . death and life, in never-ending succession . . . a mystery, an unfathomable portent, an eternal drama enacted against the bright flames of the ever-burning stars . . . and art showed science where the reality of its dream might lie. Boonen. 1981, by EveryWeek Magazine—Printed in U. 8. A.) OAT NA PEO ECT MIB tas « Professor Balu A, Martinez, photographed STUN LLALUCLLL CUCL ULNA) Lunge Reagent. - The porter had seen him enter the apartment the night before, but did not see him leave. The man was arrested as her murderer, and it is extremely likely that the case would have been’ one of those fong-drawn-out ones with which the world is so familiar—if Profes- sor Martinez had not ap- plied the paraffin test to the woman's band. He at once found absolutely indisputable evidence from the powder particles, which showed up under the reagent, that the woman had killed herself. In a somewhat similar case, the Mexico City police found a woman lying on her back in the bedroom, dead, with two mortal bullet wounds in her chest. Every indication pointed to mur- der. One of the boarders, who occupied a room adjacent to that of the dead woman, was seen talking to her shortly before her death, and it was proved that he owned the revolver which was found beside her. Furthermore, it seemed How Professor Martinez uses a syringe filled with hot paraffin coat a hand in order to apply the He taught U. S. police * anew trick in scientific criminology impossible that any woman could have inflicted two mortal wounds upon herself. “There was only one way to prove the boarder innocent,” says Professor Martinez “We applied the Lunge Reagent. Again the par- affin showed tiny particles under the powerful reagent, and another man’s life was saved, for the beautiful dark-eyed senorita had killed herself. “This was a very rare suicide case, for it is almost without parallel to find a suicide killed with two deadly bullet wounds.” This case was given wide circu- lation throughout the Mexican Re- public and received such widespread interest that the police authorities in the United States sent many of their investigators to learn of this process. f ARTINEZ introduced the Identification Department into Mexico on January |, 1920. So skeptical were the judges and other members of the judiciary and police depart- ments that he was forced to hide near the crim- nals with his ink pad in order to secure finger prints for future use when they should be con- victed again. ‘When he wanted to finger print the taxi chauffeurs, a thousand marched against him. Today there are 500,000 finger prints on file, with the list growing at a rate of from 300 to 350 daily. On April 15, 1931, President Pascual Or- tiz Rubio made a patriotic gesture by being finger printed. It is Mexico's idea to some day adopt the same rule as the Republic of Argentine, where every man, woman and child has his finger print on record. It is hoped to put this plan into effect in Mexico by the end of next year. to HER EXACT IMAGE Gee sculptor always works from a mod- el. But most sculptors follow the model only in a general way. They will tel! you that the artist is not supposed to make an exact re- production of the thing he sees; he uses his model to fix the outstanding lines and the dom- inant attitude, but the statue that he makes is the product of his own individual talent. In London, however, a celebrated sculptor named Whitney Smith has been making a stat- ue that follows the original model with an almost unheard of exactness and accuracy. Mr. Smith used as his model “Chita,” the famous acrobatic dancer, who recently won the hearts of London theater-goers with her per- formances in the show, “Ever Green.” Chita's grace and beauty, evidently, needed no im- provement; so Mr. Smith is now finishing a stat- ue that is an amazingly life-like portrayal of the charming dancer. In private life, Chita is Miss Gladys Hawking. “Whitney Smith, London sculptor, working on his amazingly lifelike statue of Chita, the OQ PUUVNEULAEUAT SANNA LUCE coomebce geo CUMCHPEUTHT ODUCT THU OAUVAEA UA MUO TUM TUONGV EU TOUDUEMEOOU LANCE 40400) QR COOLER famous dancer. MUUCH -MEAUATAN EALERTS TATOO e nnn) _ CI z= == == = = = = == == Sa 22 = = == == == BB uvatanveatngtv ait CRRA Ute Net et ACM au eareeaaa geek MM AY AEN ANNER ALATA NALA Ul IVCUCACUCAE AAA