INDEX

Adulteration of food, 214 Agraphia, 78 Anthropometry, 50 Arsenic in beer, 231 Arsenic poisoning, 176, 181, 183 Bank-note forgeries, 102 Beck case, 41, 92 Beer conners, 217 Bertillonage, 50 Blandy, Mary, 181 Blood, structure of, 154 —— stains identified, 155, 157 ——, serum test for, 162 Bloodhounds, 29 Briggs, murder of, 33 Brinkley poisoning case, 109, 116 Capture of criminals, 22 Catchpole, Margaret, 22 Charlesworth case, 28 Circumstantial detection, 33 —— evidence, 11 Conflict of scientific evidence, 14, 19 Courvoisier, 4 Crippen case, 25, 167 Detective force, 2 Dodd, Dr., 140 Elizabethan ink, 107 Errors of eye-witnesses, 39 Essex, Earl of, 8 Fallibility of eye-witnesses, 37 Fauld’s observations on finger-prints, 62 Finger-prints, 54 ——, detection by, 66, 68 ——, heredity in, 62 ——, identification by, 59 ——, persistence of, 58 ——, systems of classifying, 64, 67 Forged documents, 93 Forgery trials, 135 Gorse Hall murder, 41, 166 Gun-flash identification, 44 Hair, identification of, 167 —— of animals, 169 Hale, trial of, 135 Handwriting, 70 ——, evidence as to, 85 ——, heredity in, 71 ——, hypnotic, 82 ——, formation of, 73 —— in diseases, 78 —— in insanity, 79 —— in paralysis, 80 ——, mistakes as to, 92 —— of Napoleon, 76 —— experts, 87 Herculaneum papyri, 113 Herschel’s finger-print system, 55 Hypnotic writing, 81 Ink in writing, 105 —— ——, age of, 105, 110 —— ——, differences in, 114 Insurance frauds, 8, 10 Lamson, Dr., 201 Laundry mark identification, 35 Lovibond’s tintometer, 108 Matlock will case, 143 Maybrick trial, 18, 206 Microscope in forgery cases, 93 Milton’s Bible, 108 Mirror writing, 80 Mistaken identity, 39, 41 Müller, 34 Nairn, Katharine, 183 Napoleon’s signatures, 76 Ogilvie, trial of, 183 Overbury, murder of, 176 Palmer, trial of, 18, 191 Perreaus, trial of the, 136 Personal identification, 37 Photographic identification, 48 —— detection of forgery, 95 Physiological tests, 195 Pilcher’s trial, 111, 149 Poisons, definition of, 185 ——, miraculous effects of, 171 Poisoning trials, 171 Police dogs, 32 Portraits, identification by, 27, 28 Preservatives in food, 224 Purkenje’s finger prints, 54 Rudd, trial of Mrs., 138 Russell, Lord William, 4 Scientific assistance for prisoners, 13 —— deduction, 6 —— proof, 12 Smethurst, trial of, 19 Somerset, Countess of, 179 Spencer Cowper, trial of, 15, 85 Standards for food, 234 Suffolk witches, 172 Swan and Jefferies, trial of, 4 Sympathetic inks, 130 Systems of identification, 48 Tawell, capture of, 24 —— trial of, 187 Telectrograph, 26 Telegraph, capture by aid of, 24, 25 Tichborne case, 46 Turner, Anne, 172, 177 Typewritten matter, 97 Weston, trial of, 172, 176 Whalley will case, 145 Witnesses as advocates, 19 Wireless telegraphy, 25, 27 Witchcraft and poisoning, 172 Wood, trial of, 121 Writers’ cramp, 78 Yarmouth murder, 34