Science and the Criminal

s-Margaret Catchpole-Tawell-Crippen-Portraits and the Press-Cha

of steam power on land and sea. For then, slow as were the ways of escape, the ways of advertising

c, may be cited as a good illustration of the way in which the purs

e stable of her master, in order to join her lover, and disguised as a lad rode all the

and offering a reward for the capture of the thief were hurriedly

about to turn off in the direction of Maldon, when they chanced to meet a man who had seen Marg

owing day and Margaret was arrested just as she

eath, but through the influence of her former master

he was captured on the beach while in the act of embarking in Laud's boat, and Laud himself was killed in the fight. For the second time she was s

could travel more rapidly than before, and thus when chance favoured him could get to the coast and on board a ship about to sai

n the steam engine had been discovered, that the balance turned dec

ed in the capture of a criminal that it was recognised in how man

of view, for, although the railway companies had some time before this realised the advantage

n, in 1845, the news was made known that a suspected murde

ur, who had heard her screams, rushed to the spot with a lighted cand

e station and in catching a train to London, and had it been two years earlier would probably have managed to get

ood start, the message arrived long before him, and detectives were awaiting the arrival of the train at Paddington. He was followed from the station to the Bank, and from there to an eating-house, where he had a

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f Mr. Thorne-Baker a

ntific interest in his trial, whi

of Tawell, the attention of the whole world was rivetted u

anada without detection. For a week previously search had been made for them in every corner of Europe, and

r faces were familiar wherever English papers were read, and the ship was onl

or the first time since its invention wireless telegraphy pla

eamer to greet them on their reaching Canada. Day by day, with almost feverish excitement, the progress of the Montrose across the ocean w

to arrest Crippen and his companion at the first

tures of scientific interest to whic

of reproducing a photograph at a distance have greatly increased the difficulties of criminals escaping de

ortraits of the chief actors in the Steinheil case, and one of these photographs, which was rec

h an extent that the photograph may be printed upon a flexible plate with a backing of lead foil, and by attaching this to the transmitting cylinder t

ssion of simple pictures or diagrams, and by its means it would be easy for

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ssion of "The

of Mr. Thorne Baker and the Daily Mirror, show a portrait of King Edward VII

by merely making a slight alteration in the speed of running the machines, in accordance wi

identifying a suspected individual the case of Arden, who was exec

nd this was handed to the police who were thus abl

l being employed for this purpose will occur to everyone. At any police station may now be seen reproductions of photographs of missing indi

traces of her whereabouts were lost for some days. Her portrait was published in all the leading papers,

uspected woman and addressed her in her real name, and she, taken off

g from her creditors, under circumstances intended to suggest that she had been killed. She arranged a motor-car "a

the victim would come to life again. Her portraits were published in hundreds of papers, and were posted at polic

s of the country at the same time, but it was not until a

t to the London office of her solicitor, and was attended from the station by a s

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f Mr. Thorne-Baker a

oor landlady of a large sum of money at the time when everyo

nal, but this must be attributed, in part at all events, to the circumstance

murdered woman, but the trial was not made immediately after the discovery of the crime. The scent had become f

is trained bloodhound, "Pathan," and for his kind permission to quote the graph

ith a dense wood and undergrowth of rhododendron bushes. It happened in mid-summer, and the day was very hot. The collies worked industriously for almost two hours, keeping well ahead, but after that time they began to

England at the time, it was seventeen hours after the murder when we reached the scene. Not only this, but severe frost had intervened during the night, rendering the ground very unfavourable for s

away for some distance, and leaving the main road crossed some fields through a wood to a cottage. Here they seemed to be at fault,

sistently for a little time one of them, 'Solferino,' opened to a line beyond the wood, and went off at a steady rate followe

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distance, until, perhaps, scared by a pedestrian or v

in the fields. By steadily working in this manner they led us for four miles, partly across country, and partly on the road, to a populous town, and to the vicinity of a railway

e slightest doubt, that had this town been supplied with a bloodhound which could have been put on the t

ve been recorded in all the European papers. In the early part of March of last year this police dog, "Tref," recov

e he made for a coat that belonged to a house-painter, and in the pockets of this were found the missing notes. He then

ow being systematically employed as scouts to accompany the p

cross-bred hounds described as "wolf-shepherd hounds," and "brindled mastiff bulls." They ar

to refuse food except from the hands of those they know, so as to safeguard them against poisoning. As a proof of their

e dogs. When the man attempted to escape over a screen representing a wall the great hound, "Max," promptly caught him and dragged him down again, as is shown in the accompanying photograph which is here repr

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of Mdlle. Clary and

d to assist the police in Glasgow, and within the last few months N

or Richardson. The first dog used for the purpose in this country was given to the Berkshire Constabulary, and its duties are t

are required to train t

e discovery of a criminal. One of the most striking examples of the kind was seen in 1864, when a g

yone, and the crime would probably have made another in the long lis

lt hat, which was found upon Mr. Briggs, was one of

the way, were for many years after

ed that he had given another watch and chain in exchange for them. He remembered the man and was ab

ail were lost, for all efforts to discove

man who had recently been lodging at his house had given to his little girl. On this box was stamped the jeweller's na

first to Liverpool and then to New York

tim helped to prove his identity with the murde

nce leading to the detection of a criminal can be of

exception of the laundry mark upon her clothes, there was no clue by which she could possibly be identified. She had been staying for some days in lodgings in the town, and was known to her landl

her murderer proved unavailing, and at the coroner's inquest a ve

on the clothes sent to them from a particular house in Bexley Heath. Further inquiry showed that a woman named Bennet

committed for trial on the charge of murder. He denied all knowledge of the crime, and asserted that he had never been to Yarmout

as shown that his behaviour after the night of the murder pointed to his having a knowledge of his wife's death. So convincing was the w