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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], An attempt to discover a murderer by photography. (search)
An attempt to discover a murderer by photography.
--The Evansville (Ind.) Journal gives the following account of an attempt to discover a murderer by photography:
A few days since Mr. Adams, a photographies of this city, at the solicitation of some gentlemen who had read of similar experiments in France, took his instrument and visited the scene of the late murder in German township.
This was some thirty hours after the murdered man had breathed his last.
There was a great deal of dust flying and a great crowd collected, which materially interfered with the success of the experiment, but notwithstanding unfavorable circumstances, Mr. Adams succeeded in taking a tolerably fair "negative." Upon this he has been experimenting, and we were called on to witness the result of his experiment.
He had taken an ambrotype picture of the eye of the deceased, and then rubbing out everything but a single object apparently in the centre of the eye, this was placed under an ordinar