OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS.
DRUNKARDS CONFOUNDED. SCIENCE'S LATEST PRANK. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 23. Drunkards will be convicted out of their own mouths if the Courts accept the discovery of Professor J. W. Jeaffreson, University College of London, that speech can be written accurately by movements of the jaw. The professor says that he has invented an instrument giving an identical graph for sound and the jaw movement which is recorded on a photographic film from which the actual spoken words can be read. "If the test were applied to a drunken man, it would definitely establish whether his speech was affected," says Professor Jeaffreson. "The dips in the graph, representing vowels, would be irregular and the crests, representing consonants, would be blurred. A magistrate need not rely on the policeman's word. The accused would have written his own unmistakable confession by merely talking."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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145OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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