The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1912, Page 7, Image 7
DR. LANCASSAGN
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Foot Prints in Sand From
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Led to Butch
On the first of December, 1911,'a
k the Paris police found Jules Decasse, j
a retired shopkeeper, dead in the n
kitchen of his home at No. 22 Rue I ii
Montmartre. Decasse had been kill- g
ed with a heavy butcher knife, al-; u
most a cleaver in size. A charwoman b
was upstairs at the time, but she had j h
heard no one with Decasse, nor had :
she knowledge of any one having h
entered the house. She identified the e
Knue as one ueionging to me uiui- ^
aered man. i n
i The police found nothing in their |
w ^ first examination to point to the as- j h
sassin. Dr. Lancassagne, the famous j
criminologist, was sent for by M. Le-; ^
pine, the Paris chief of police. j b
"All that we have as evidence is
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this knife," said Lepine. "Unfortunately,
it is one of Decasse's, and so ;
gives no clue towards his murderer." |
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> Dr. Lacassagne went through the I
usual procedure of photography and ^
then began his examination of the I .
floor. A flower pot had been over-;
turned in the kitchen, and upon the I
earth which had fallen from it was a
sharply defined footprint. Comparison
showed that 'it was not that of j ^
tho victim
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| " Next the criminologist began a mi- j ^
nute analysis of the' cuts which had ! ^
caused death. From them he turned ; tc
to a microscopic examination of the |
knife. ! Ct
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"M. Lepine," he said, "let your ; tl
men seek for a butcher who wears a ir
pair of heavy shoes made by Ober- T
heimer, of Berlin. A butcher committed
this murder. His arm is ex- b:
k 4 actly 31 inches from shoulder to se
palm, and he is five feet ten inches 0
in height!" j tl
M. Lepine gave his orders and the I w
hunt for the butcher began. j \\
"Now," said Dr. Lacassagne, "let s ei
us begin with this knife. It is cer- hi
? tainly M. Decasse's. You will see ci
I . here where the man had it upon his H
wall. The murderer reached for it, j g]
' and in doing so overturned this pi
flower pot. Here he left his first bit aj
of evidence in the footprint. | cc
"Now you will see that the blade h
of the knife was used not to stab or i si
to cut, but in the same way that a! ri
cleaver is used?to chop. The blood j se
marks come within three inches of di
tne top. isow iook ai me upper part i
of the blade where it joins the i tc
handle. You will observe curious;
parallel streaks there. D
"Looking at these streaks under m
the microscope you will see that they ^
have been made by fingers being run 1 S1
* along the edge.
"This is a butcher's trick. Every j ti
' butcher invariably does this to test tt
v the sharpness of his instrument be- d
fore he begins to cut or chop me?.t. : w
"My first deduction points to a! je
butcher, then! I begin to reconstruct, j y(
I see the murderer reaching down; m
the knife. He is bent upon killing : n(
and every thought is directed toward I 0i
that end. The moment the knife is j sc
I in his hand it suggests to him his!
occupation; in fact it is, as you see, j Tl
a butcher's tool. Unconsciously he j
performs the occupational habit ac-1 ^
tion. He runs thumb and forefinger I
down the blade to see whether it is i
sharp. He could no more stop this i t
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habit action under the force of the iD
double suggestion of using the knife 0j
* and handling it than he could, when j q(
talking about something else, tie up
packages in any other way than he cc
is used to tying them. fr
"Very well. I conclude that there p.
is valid evidence that he is a butcher. cc
I go further. You will see that
there are blood stains on the handle 0i
* of the knife. Look at them again tt
[ under the microscope. You will see m
l plainly that this mark was made by gj
a right hand and this by a left hand. w
> The knife could not be effectively g(
held in both hands at once. We must aj
I admit, then, that some blows were hi
dealt when it was being held by a
> right hand and some when it was
being held by a left hand. This is
unusual. It either means that there tt
were two men who killed Decasse? a
1 one a right-handed man, one' a left- a<
handed?or else it means that the et
9b murderer could change hands and i
deal effective blows with either hand j tc
j/Jr indiscriminately. j ki
i "Very well. Let us look at the h;
wounds. The first is across the in
shoulder. It must have been dealt st
! by some one standing in front of De- j s<
casse, and it could only have been j re
> made by a right-hand blow. The
' depth of the cut, its position, its di- j tc
rection all show that. But here is I n<
another wound across the face. The ai
knife has cut down the left side, over
the mouth, severing with the flesh gi
part of the mustache. From the m
shape and direction of the cut we
argue that this was probably a left-j w
1 hand blow. There is no possible po- "<
sition in which a man could stand M
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OR MURDERER. M
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Overturned Flower Pot th
f Blood on Knife
ler's Arrest. hs
or
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nd deal it with the right hand. st;
"Let us run over the classes of
len who habitually use b*th hands ed
i their work. The first that sug- jo
ests itself again is the butcher. In m
sing a cleaver to chop meat the wl
utcher repeatedly changes from so
and to hand to rest himself. se
"To recapitulate: We have a knife on
eavv enough to suggest in a butch- to
r's mind the idea of a cleaver. We wl
ave it used as a cleaver to kill a ca
. n flaTinQ fhof 1 TV T1 j
iO.ll. ?V ^ VI lugavv CUUV/ iu
lg the blows the murderer changed in
ands, just as a butcher using a lei
leaver would. We have streaks on
le blade showing it was given the so
utcher's test for sharpness. We can th
ow reject the idea of two men using, sti
le knife as unlikely. The murderer Mi
as a butcher. a
"The footprint is easy. In the wl
ertillion gallery are shoes from bo
rery factory in the world. Ober- tal
eimer's shoes have always six pegs th
t the heels placed invariably in the nn
>rm of a triangle. No other shoe rh
taker uses these pegs in this way. gr
; was easy to recognize them. My dc
teasurements of arm are derived of
om exact calculations of the height ge
I the knife from the floor and the vk
tarks left on the floor which show sw
lat the murderer stood on his toes ini
> reach the weapon. My calcula- ha
ons of height are based upon the ha
ilculations of the length of arm plus in
le measurement of the footprint thi
t the earth of the overturned pot. Mj
he formula is an exact one. kn
Within an hour the detectives co
rought. before Lepine and Lacas- pa
igne a butcher wearing a pair of
berheimer's shoes, who confessed
lat he had killed Decasse. He lived
ithin a few squares of his victim,
fhen the police entered his shop to
camine as they had the shops of
alf a dozen other butchers, he had Ti
ied in panic, "Who saw me do it?" ed
e admitted that he had nursed a trs
rudge against Decasse over a dis- re]
ated bill, and that, having gone fr(
?ain to the house, had been over- ne
>me with rage and had killed him. to
e had struck him first over the op
loulder with the knife held in the
ght hand and had then dealt the he
jcond stroke with the left. Why he be
id so he did not know, except that Sir
svhen cutting meat it was his habit sir
> change hands." du
"But in this case we were lucky,
r. Lacassagne," said Lepine. "My
en might have found half a dozen
atchers wearing Oberheimer's
ioes." Dr
"Is it not an immense saving of
me and energy at once to narrow
te possibilities to a butcher?" said ^
r. Lacassagne. "Ana, oesiaes mere ^
ere twenty other bits of evidence
pn
ft behind to eliminate five out of c
)ur possible half dozen. No two
en can commit a crime alike, and a(j
) criminal can escape his own rec d
when it is put to the test of exact
mj
:ience."?New York American.
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[LLMAN ON STATE CONVENTION p0
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rom Information at Hand, Regards toi
Outcome as "Satisfactory." Pa
pu
Washington, May 16.?Senator j ^
illman said to-day, in reply to an de
quiry as to his opinion of the action r>
[ the South Carolina Democratic ^
onvention: "I have not seen the ha
ill report of the proceedings of the
mvention in the State papers, but
om what I see in the Washington
ipers I regard the course of the ^
invention as satisfactory." gtSeveral
members of the South Car- ^
ina delegation in the house express wc
te belief that if a preferential priary
had been held the voice of the
:ate would have been for Underood
for president, and they are conlent
that the vote of the delegation of
; Baltimore will ultimately go to Ha
im. ' . ed
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Xot "Trade.1' kn
One of the young men attached to
le American embassy at Berlin tells stc
story to illustrate that modern Ch
ivertising can cope even with the pr<
;iquette of courts. to
A young American woman wished sai
be presented at the court of the sti
ing of Saxony. The high officials, wi
iving inquired into her social standLg
at home, objected. They repre- sti
mted to her that the king could mc
:arcely receive the daughter of a an
'tail bootseller. sk
The young woman cabled home and rv
>ld her father the situation. The of
^xt morning she received his
iswer: wt
"Can't call it selling. Practically to
iving them away. See advertise- He
ient." an
That solved the difficulty. She toi
as presented as the daughter of an bu
eminent philanthropist."?Harper's an
agazine. ev
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
an Slays Woman and is Killed by
Victim's Father.
Dillon, May 15.?Coroner Gasque
as called early Monday morning to
e Fork section to hold an inquest
er the bodies of Lula Mason, aged
! years, and Flegler McKinnis, who
id both been killed the night before
i the plantation of Alfred Owens,
te mile and a half north of the
ation, Fork.
The testimony at the inquest show[
that Flegler McKinnis, holding a
b in Marion as porter at "The Carichael,"
had called to see Lula, to
tiom he had. previously been paying
me attention. On this occasion, it
ems, he began upbraiding her for
couraging a supposed rival. A pis1
shot was heard from the porch
lere they were sitting and the girl
me around screaming that McKins
had shot her and fell, expiring
a few minutes, shot through the
ft breast.
The father of the girl, William Mali,
seized a cha r and broke it over
e head of McKinnis, who, it was
ited, was trying to shoot him also,
ison rushed into the house and in
mnmpnt. came out with a shotgun,
lich he discharged at once into the
dy of McKinnis, the whole load
king effect in the upper part of
e thigh, alnffcst severing the fearal
artery. Death from hemorage
speedily followed. Several neoes
were present and eye-witnesses
lare that when Mason, the father
the girl, went into the house to
t his gun, McKinnis drew a small
il from his pocket and apparently
allowed its contents. Upon examation
afterwards it was found to
ve contained carbolic acid, which
d been obtained from a druggist
Marion. This evidently showed
at a double tragedy was intended,
ison gave himself up and was
ought to jail, though the jury
mpletely exonerated him. All
rties in the affair were colored.
TILLMAN FOR SMITH'S BILL.
eless to Ask Him to Oppose AntiOption
Measure.
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Washington, May 16.?Senator
llman remarks that parties opposto
Senator Smith's bill to regulate
iding in cotton futures, favorably
ported to the senate yesterday
)m the committee on agriculture,
ed not send letters and telegrams
him asking his aid in delaying or
posing passage of the measure.
Senator Tillman explains that he is
artiiy for the bill and that he has
en in close touch with Senator
lith with regard to its progress ever
ice it was formulated and introced.
Wants to Go Without Clothes.
Boston, Mass., May 16.?"I would
:e to go naked to my office," said
. Charles E. Page, a prominent
;lrose and Boston physician, who
lieves that clothes only encumber
2 body and should be discarded. He
ded: "If I did so I would lose my
actice and be ostracized by so>ty."
Here are some of the reasons he
vanced in support of his ideas:
"As I was passing the city hall at
j home in Melrose to-day, I stepd
in and interviewed the chief of
lice. I asked him if he thought I
uld be permitted to come into Bosi
with simply an umbrella and a
ir of sandals. He looked a little
zzled at first and said, 'Well?er?
lardly know about that. It might
pend somewhat upon how you carid
the umbella.' This would be
e ideal dress for Bostonians?a
ppy smile and an umbrella to keep
! the scorching rays of Old Sol.
it, of course, this can never be.
"Some persons say, and doctors,
), 'stick to your flannels until they
ck to you.' I say don't wear them
all, winter or summer, and you
in't catch cold at all."
Lagged Behind the Procession.
Aurora, 111., May 18.?The death
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U. W. StOCKWeii, UJ. tiilS) U1LJ, ai
twarden, Canada, last night markthe
passing of one of the quaint:
characters in Illinois. He was
own as "the man who stood still."
As owner of one of the biggest
>res in Northern Illinois outside of
icago during the civil war, he
aspered. After the war he failed
keep abreast of the times and the
me goods which he carried then
11 adorn the shelves and showndows
of the store.
Five years after the war he was
11 making a profit. In 10 years
>re the place was a curiosity shop
d has continued so. The hoop
irt, barber-striped hose, jet jeweland
like antiquities continued part
his stock.
In '.ater years he was the only one
10 entered the place except visitors
the city. He did no advertising,
i had about $10,000 worth of goods
d settled down to wait for cusners
who never came. He was at
siness at 7 o'clock each morning
d remained until 6 o'clock in the
ening. He was 77 years of age.
BROUGHT HOME FOR BURIAL.
Accident Ends Army Career of Branson
Young Man, Win. R. Brown.
Brunson. May 15.?The mangled
corpse of William R. Brown, a young
soldier of the United States army,
sent from Plattsburg. N. Y., arrived
here yesterday and was met by the
aged father and other members of
the family and quite a number of
friends of the deceased. The body
had been embalmed and several
wreaths of flowers had been placed
in the metal casket by members of
Company K, 5th regiment, United
States infantry, to which command
the dead soldier belonged. A telegram
had been received several days
ago notifying his father of the accidental
killing by a locomotive.
The young man buried to-day
would doubtless have made theUnited
States a fine soldier, as he
was a fair prototype of his- aged father
in physique and grit, who, with
five brothers as soldiers in the Confederate
army, helped make the history
of that army in our war.
Damage Suit Filed.
Suit for damages in the amount
of $50,000 has been entered by Mrs.
M. G. Reed against H. S. Spires and
W. N. Carter for the death of the
husband of Mrs. Reed, who was killed
in a shooting scrape with the two
defendants. The suit has been
brought by Dr. L. K. Sturkie and
to-day the papers were served on H.
S. Spires who was in the city.
Spires is now residing in Aiken county
while Carter is a resident of this
county. It is stated that the papers
will be served on the latter at an
early date.
The case is similar to that in Richland
county some years back when
one Sellers, was sued for damages
in the amount of $25,000 for the
death of one Farmer. The widow of
Farmer, who was a constable,
brought the suit after her husband
had been killed by Sellers.
Spires and Carter were placed on
trial in this county in the criminal
court and were found not guilty.?
Orangeburg Evening News. \
WOMAN CONSTABLE CAN FIGHT. ?
San Jc-se Deputy Administers Beating
to Bad Husband.
Mrs. William F. Curry, wife of a
clerk of the justice court of San
Jose township, has been sworn in as
a deputy constable, says a San Jose,
Cal., special.
Interesting stories are told of Mrs.
Curry's physical prowess, and although
she has not yet made her first
arrest, it is expected that she will
give a good account of herself should J
she have occasion. Every morning
she boxes with her husband, and they |
start the day with a lively three- |
round go. I
That she has a punch in either fist |
was demonstrated recently when she f
took a hand in a domestic quarrel in !
her neighborhood and administered i
a beating to a husband who was ill
treating his wife.
Tar and Feather Reitman.
San Diego, Cal., May 16.?Emma
Goldman, anarchist lecturer, and
Ben L. Reitman, her manager, are
safe in Los Angeles. Reitman was
taken from his apartments in a local >
hotel on Tuesday night by armed
vigilantes, it was reported-, was
placed in an automobile and hurried
nine miles from this city ana given, i
it is said, a coat of tar and feathers, j
The letters "I. W. W." (Industrial '
Workers of the World) were burned =
on his back with a lighted cigar. He
was left with his railroad ticket and
money, but virtually no clothes. He
reached Bernardo, 25 miles northeast
of San Diego, after walking all
night, bought clothes and finally
landed in Los Angeles.
Emma Goldman was escorted to
the railroad station yesterday in an
automobile after deciding to abandon
an attempt to lecture in this
city.
MEETING OF TAXPAYERS.
A meeting of the taxpayers,
voters of Bamberg School District,
No. 14, is hereby called to be held
in the city hall in the town of Bamberg
on Monday, June 3rd, 1912,
at 4 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
electing one member of the board of
trustees, and for the transaction of
any other business that may legally
come before the meeting.
W. M. BRABHAM, =
Chairman Board of Trustees. ^
May 8th, 1912. ^
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