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THE BOX OF 17
Nthe paper-strewn labora
tory in which Sir Bernard Spilsbury was found dying
a few weeks ago was discovered in small cardboard box which provides a mystery as intrigu- ing as any he solved,
The contents are the only relies left of the man who spent 40 years investigating causes of death.
Before me as I write is the box. Inside are 17 strangely nssorted articles.
But there are not concerned with the enses which made Sir Bernard famous.
The relies
must have had
great scientific or criminological value, but not value remain:
unexplained,
SECRETS
WERE SOME THE EVIDENCE
OF HIDDEN CRIMES?
by ERIC TULLETT
Eight of the specimens, are clues of eases he investigated. dating back to 19109.
shock and loss of blood follow- ing sever, blows on the head,
Spilabu v parodied this rmati pieer of bloodstained hearthug, and all Voisin's changes of life
faden.
Voisin was hanged and Rocite sentenced to seven years' penat
They are labelled with brief descriptions of the cases, writ- ten by Sir Bernard himself. On the others there is no label. They could be ordinary speei. -mons-not-ancommon--in-Ruy-
For 20 years that vital clue laboratory. Yet they are in th same box, marked in longland, was kept by Sir Bernard, "Medialegal Specimens.".
The 'unknown'
Only one article does not re- late directly to Sir Bernard.
That is a letter written by the poisoner Willium Palmer to his fiancee. Miss Annie Brookes, The letter is dated July 12,
18-17.
servitude..
are other clues, less easily explained. Yet they must have meant something to this man whose evidence so often snapped the threads of a fellow man's life.
BUT in the hox
In a slim, back case, marked meroly: "St. Paneras. Man up- known. Suicide," is an old open razor, the blade heavily blood--
Its only apparent claim to in- terest is the almost indecipher- able writing on the case: "Cut
6
3
It had certainly been used as a weapon. Now it just adds to the mystery.
To Spilsbury a stain could tell a story. He handled hundreds of eases
of stain identification. but in his box were only three articles relating to the subject,
10 ADVANCES IN SCIENCE
D'RECTOR of American Science Service
Watson Davis listed what he considered the 10.most important advances in science in 1917. PILOTLESS PLANE: A US. Skymaster took oll from Newfoundland and landed near Oxford (England) last September without the crew touching the controls during the light. The control apparatus enleulnted the wind speed, set a speed of 240 mph. The course was controlled by radar.
ARTIFICIAL RAIN: Australian scientists Dr Eric Kraus and Patrick Squires were the first nien in the world to make artificial rain. Last March they dropped eurdon dioxide on upper strata cloud from a plane and crehted heavy rain. SYNTHETICS: The synthesis of protein in long- chain molecules promises new plastics of medical and industrial importance. U.S. Professor E. A. Hauser found that elasticity is not an exclusive property of rubber, but the result of a well- balanced combination of fibrous and liquid molecules in a given substance.
ATOM: Interconversion of proton and neutron fundamental particles and the smashing of many more elements yielding new isotypes and trans- mutations,
Box in which is misshapen bullet and smashed dental plate.
2 Bốc with stained towel and chintz cover.
J
Stained khaki clue. Blinn-svaked heurth-rug in bor, taken from Valsin's room in Charlotte-street, W.
3
Old pattern jarkzlenife,
& Letter by Wilum Palmer. poisomer, to his fiancee, Misa Brookes, 1847.
7 Open razor used by un- known man to kill himself.
Hath Ray Fing
7
མ དག
been interested because the bullet was out of shape.
By using the world's highest voltage synchrocyelatron, U.S. scientists Glenn Seaborg and Albert Ghiorso found the radio- netive elements astatine and franctum which existed when the earth was formed two billion years ago, but had since decayed other elements.
British scientists found un- suspected particles of the atom which scientists hitherto had thought was made up of protons and neutrons.
KUNSPOTS Director of the Franklin Institute Planetarium at Philadephia Dr. Roy Marshall sight- ed the largest display of sunspots in more than a century. One sunspot was 80,000 miles long. Inrge enough to embrace 25 to 30 earths in its bulk.
STREPTOMYCIN: New wonder drug which has been successful in treatment of some types of tubercu- losts. 1 has also proved a more emcient cure of VD than pealeliin.
JET PIANES: Improved jet engines enabled the smashing of alr speed record. Arst by British Meteor Glos- ter (621 mph) then by U.S. Dougins Skystreak (050 mply). America has also developed a jet bomber powered by six jet engines.
PREHISTORIC MAN: Anthropolo
1e kept it in a small round box with the dental plate.
There are three boxes containing bloodstained material marked, "Mon- Rey." "Guinea Pl." and "Rabbit." #tists dug
up the 15,000-year-old There is, as i have said, no clue remains of the Tepexpan Man from left of my of
of the more famous an Ice Age swamp in Mexico. poisoning, cases, yet there is a small tin of rat poison there.
A shop Inbet A tiny red box, on which he had written: "Stain, 011
Tigh-street, Tooting. What secret completed photograph berd fabric. Swindon case 29 Sept., Was the poison used by a murderer picture.
this half-empty tin? 1917" contains a piece of linen.
There is no answer.
lien
belind
gives an address
CAMERA: A new process delivers out of a comera one minute after taking a
mulation Innterial
So, out of the estimated 00,000 SMELL: Discovery that smell Is of crime, and Swindon police cannot investigated in 40 years, only these absorbed
There is no indication of the type cases which Sir Bernard Spilsbury | depicted D in.ra-red trate anything because many of their few strange.clues remain.. records were destroyed during the
War.
The
fabric may have concerned some crime of violence.. 38 may even have been murder.
i
But the reason Sir Bernard kept
will remain unknown.
Back to 1909
by odorous
reaching_the_nose.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
HOW the Filthistan Trio filed
4. Do you guarantee not to lend
In form 719046/JL/274619 the plank to any unlicensed person or persons?We are tolectalers, ha b.n./42:19, 646, F.K.:
nother box is marked: "Stains Aon towel and chintz cover. Braid- 1. Have you made auy previous brook ense, Nov. '09."
application to yes, it we do not Ret 11. That was onc
3. Can you guarantee it will nat
4.
VOS.
5. Do you belong to a Union? If so, which? If to not, sir, what?
6.
State maiden name of Mother.
0, sir, there be no State names for ladies in Persin. Private name of
other Jivizumalċeshark.
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Murder clue
year
before he THERE is only
clue
solved the Sedon one
poisoning ease, 2. How long Is the required in the mystery box de
and two Years before he sunt plank?-Till it breaketh. Crippen to the hangman. mur- stained. IN A LOVE-STORY THAT BUBBLES finitely connected with
From those two famous cases he WITH JOY, SPARKLES WITH SONG, DAZZLES WITH DANCING!der-a small piece of blood-
kept nothing. Yet the obscure Braid-be used for building?-We are too stained hearthrug which
brook rase must have had some much honoured, please, helped to send Louis Voisin to
thing he thought worth keeping.
establishment for refined boli- the gallows for the murder of.
Where is the plank to be set not stay at Mrs McGurgle's Although most of his cases con unt-On the belly, alr, of Ashura, day-makers? on left arm."
Mrs McGurgle, Mme. Gerardi.
cerned human beings, there is one ho yes. Sir Bernard may have proved clue to the death of a sleep.
doyenne of the eatering faculty, Her body was found in a sacit some particular method and
5. Have you changed It is a piece of bloodstained khaki dress In
your ad- offers you all the sophisticated com- in Regent-square. off Gray's
front
last year? Plense, forts of a luxury hotel at a moder- Case of sheep-stealing at Kazbutab hath changed his cloth ste price (baths extra, no dogs). Inn-road. Lendon, in November kept it for reference. But every
year of his life he conductel Bicester,
trousers for Sundays. Ashura and Coine to the Sussex Cote d'Or, and autopsies upon people who had 1918, and one of them had blood-saw overall,
Two men were charged in July Rizamughan remain clothed in see- try the Patty Maison, made from used razors to commit suicide.
on the premises. grown on stained baki
vegetables breeches. fie said
6. Give rough estimate of cur- Patronised by all who know what's Of all those he retained only the blood was his own.
rent upkeep expenses.-No, but wo what. Running water in the bath- this ene, dated 1919.
Sir Bernard found that the stains eat no currents and keep none up, 10cm, informal dances, ping-pong. showed the presence of mammalian ciat.
paper
her hats given away on Kala blood
composition, but on tests they
nights Kave reaction of sheep's blood.
His evidence destroyed the defence, and both men were sentenced at Oxford Assizes.
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In her room was found an 10.U. for 450 signed by Voisin. He and a woman named Roche were enarged with the murder. And what is the history of
Their defence was that Voisin the old pattern jackknife? had found the body when he It has no label, and there is went to redeem his 1.0.U., and nothing to show why it was kept, except that one of the The defence was shattered blades, sharpened to a fine point. when Spilsbury proved by the is thinly bloodstained. position and size of the blood- On the other blade is stamped stains that Mme. Gerard had the word "Ranchero," suggest been murdered in Voisin's ing a South American rooms; that she had died from Spanish origin.
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1. Is the plank, when In use, polished or unpolished?-Sir, what Of the many shooting eases the is in use polished U1* unpolished. clue 10 only one is left, It was please?
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CONSIDERABLY refreshed by her long rest, Mimale Slopcorner is ready to return to her duties. I be a suicide in which a man shot him- 2. Where is the plank to be de lieve her first job will be to tour, the self through the mouth. The bullet Hvered? To Ashura's belly. smashed his dental plate and plerced have shit, nis brain.
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