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PETER KOPP Phone 254F

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Page Eighteen

In one of these rooms you'll find
T. W. McConnell Davis (“Doc’” to his
associates and police officers through-
out British Columbia), who is the
senior of eight analysts who work as
a team under the guidance of the
Chief Analyst, G. Cave-Browne-Cave,
who is perhaps one of the cleverest
analytical chemists in Canada.

But “Doc” gets the police problems,
and he’s been getting them for years.

Fortyish, stocky and bespectacled,
Doc is a graduate of McMaster Uni-
versity, and over the years he has
distinguished himself in toxicological
work, and month after month he sifts
and co-relates a strange motley of
criminal evidence for the province’s
law enforcement agencies.

The exhibits that come to his bench
may be anything from fragments of a
home-made bomb to a sample of home
canned peas. But whatever it is, it
usually can tell a tale of death and
destruction.

An elderly farmer takes a spring
time dose of sulphur and molasses,
and dies in agony in a few hours.

It’s a mystery until Doc Davis
examines the stomach contents and
wonders how so much arsenic got into
the dead man. And molasses. Arsenic
and molasses doesn’t add up. Sulphur
and molasses, yes. Deep in thought,
Doc wonders what looks like sulphur
and contains 20% arsenic. Could be
sheep dip. And sure enough, a
further search of the farmer’s kitchen
reveals an open packet of sheep dip,
beside the box of sulphur. The mis-
take cost a life.

Clamped in the corner of a bench
is a test tube filled with brownish
liquid with what appears to be pieces
of ice floating in it.

But it’s not ice, it’s glass—fragments
from automobile headlights.

Over the years Doc has collected a
vast array of automobile headlight
lenses. Methodically he smashed them
to bits and kept the fragments in
envelopes. In a liquid called bromo-
form glass floats, in chloroform it
sinks. In a mixture of the two and
depending on the density of the glass
(not its weight) the fragments will
either float on top, remain suspended
somewhere between top and bottom,
or sink.

In a certain percentage of the two
liquids it’s an easy matter to tally the
fragments of the same lense. Thus
fragments of glass picked up at the
scene of a hit and run, can be
accurately tallied with the fragments
remaining in the headlight of the
suspect car.

It’s with tricks like these that science
is crowding the criminal a little harder
with every passing year, and thanks to
the genius of the test tube detec-

tives. x 5%

Nemesis of the hit and run driver; these frag-

ments floating in solution came from different

lenses; all pieces of the same lense would float
at the same level.

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