Crime Seminar

Whenever Sherlock Holmes was worn out by a particularly baffling case, he gave himself a shot in the arm. In Chicago last week, the long arm of small-town law received a hypo in the form of a unique summer-school course--the Crime Seminar of Northwestern University's Law School.

The Crime Seminar was formed for the benefit of rural prosecuting attorneys who know nothing about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to an intensive program of lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Their teachers were from Northwestern's Law School, from the famed Crime Detection Laboratory recently sold to Chicago by Northwestern for $25,000.

The student snoopers learned things every detective ought to know, things many a housewife would like to know:

P: How to get confessions without using a rubber hose (a secret).

P: How to embarrass fake experts on handwriting, psychology, etc. (by cross-examining).

P:How to tell where a man has been by the particles on his shoes.

P: How to make a moulage (reproduction of perishable evidence, such as outdoor footprints, with plaster casts, etc.).

P: How to use a lie detector.

P: How to restore ink or pencil marks which have been erased. Two years ago, M. Edwin O'Neill of the Crime Laboratory discovered how to restore ordinary ink erasures, published his findings. Just before the Crime Seminar opened he had found the chemical talisman for red and green inks.

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