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| Evidence as to Handwriting |
| Illustrative Cases—Handwriting Experts |
85 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| Forged Documents |
| Use of Microscope—Erasures—Photographic Methods—Typewritten Matter—Examinations of Charred Fragments—Forgery of Bank Notes |
93 |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
| Distinguishing Inks in Handwriting |
| Elizabethan Ink—Milton’s Bible—Age of Inks—Carbon Inks—Herculaneum MSS.—Forgery of Ancient Documents |
105 |
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| CHAPTER IX |
| Two Notable Trials |
| Trial of Brinkley—Trial of Robert Wood |
116 |
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| CHAPTER X |
| Sympathetic Inks |
130 |
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| CHAPTER XI |
| Remarkable Forgery Trials |
| Trials—William Hale—The Perreaus—Caroline Rudd—Dr. Dodd—Whalley Will Case—Pilcher, etc. |
135 |
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| CHAPTER XII |
| Identification of Human Blood and Human Hair |
| Structure of Blood—Human Blood—Blood of Animals—Blood Crystals—Libellers of Sir E. Godfrey—Trial of Nation in 1857—Physiological Tests—Precipitines—First Trial in France—Gorse Hall Trials—Human Hair—Hairs of Animals |
154 |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
| Early Poisoning Trials |
| Murder of Sir T. Overbury—Mary Blandy—Katharine Nairn, etc. |
171 |
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| CHAPTER XIV |
| Notable Poisoning Trials |
| Use of Poisons—Arsenic and Antimony—Chapman Case—Strychnine in Palmer Trial—Physiological Tests—Case of Freeman—Error from Quantitative Deductions—Poisonous Food Given to Animals—Mary Higgins—Negative Result of Physiological Tests—Hyoscyamus Poisons—Crippen Case—Experiment on Cats—Time Limit for Action of Arsenic—French Case |
190 |
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| CHAPTER XV |
| The Maybrick Case |
206 |
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| CHAPTER XVI |
| Adulteration of Food |
| National Loss from Adulteration—“Adulterated” Electricity—The Beer Conner—Conflict of Evidence—The Notice Dodge—Preservatives—Standards for Food—Court of Reference—Administration of the Law |
214 |
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| Index |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
