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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], An attempt to discover a murderer by photography. (search)
ad forehead. A black moustache was plainly seen and also the direction of the eyes, which seemed to be looking at some object sidewise. One of the eyes was as clearly seen as the eyes in a common ambrotype or genotype. Mr. Adams is continuing his experiments; but whether he will succeed in making any clearer developments remains to be seen.--His labors thus far are abundantly rewarded by the success which has attended his efforts, as it seems to us he has demonstrated that an object was pictured upon the eye of Mr. Herke at the time of his death, and that the object was a human face. Similar experiments, we are informed, have been made in France with great success, and mysterious murders unravelled through the instrumentality of Daguerre's wonderful art. Notwithstanding we had heard of these strange things, we were still under the impression that "dead men tell no tales." until a recent experiment has shaken our faith and almost convinced us that dead men may yet speak.