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THE CHEMIST
IN CRIME

DETECTION

by William Morrtssy

The discovery and

identification of poisons

1S chemustry’s main role

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phic test. For example, he can thus pr
piece of chisel is of the came steel cliay os fhal found of
the scene of a crime, Spectro-chamic
of the chemist, has become invaluable in crime detection.

In the RCMP laborctory ut Regina, Sask., Staff Sergeant ivan
“round expart in chemistry, foxicoiogy,

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und spectroscony-—makes o spectrogra-

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anclysis, important tool

INNER WAS OVER in the

Spanish Room of Montreal’s

Queen’s Hotel. The cigars were
lighted. Some 200 members of the
local section of the Chemical Insti-
tute of Canada had foregathered to
hear Dr. E. Gordon Young of Halifax
talk about chemistry in crime detec-
tion. An air of scientific gentility per-
meated the place. You had the feel-
ing that if you stabbed your neigh-
bor — with a broken pipette, perhaps
— he would quietly bleed a series of
precise chemical formulae.

Dr. Young, a medico-legal consult-
ant for 25 years and now director of
the new Maritimes regional labora-
tory of the National Research Coun-
cil, spoke informatively and with
some humor. He described the cases
he had worked on with Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia
while professor of bio-chemistry at
Dalhousie University.

During the succeeding question

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