LAW'S NEW TERROR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

LAW'S NEW TERROR.

" THOUGHT WAVE" ARRESTS. MURDER SUSPECT. For the first time in the history of crime, "thought waves" have been utilised to advantage in a police search for a murderer, who killed Mrs. Eunice Booher, her son Fred, and two hired men who had worked on the woman's farm near Edmonton, Alberta, Onada. The four dead people were found shot on the farm near Manville, 120 miles east of Edmonton, but there was no clue to the identity of the murderer. No weapon could be found, and, following fruitless search by neighbours and police. Dr. Adolpli Langser, a Viennese scientist, was called in. The doctor visited the scene of the murder, and in his own words "tuned in on the thought waves left by the murderer."

He remained for some time near the house apparently in deep thougSt, v/hile members of the Alberta-police stood close by. Finally the doctor stepped towards a police commissioner, and said, "I suggest that your men search tl at patch of scrub there," pointing to a spot some distance from the house. "I feel that tbe sou threw the rifle there." The scrub was searched, and a rifle found, and w,hen this was shown to Vernon Booher, the twenty-year-old son of the murdered woman, he confessed to the crime. He had previously asserted that he had heard shots when returning home with cattle, and on arriving at the house found his mother, brother and the two men dead.

The doctor had had no previous knowledge that the son was suspected of the murder. He declared that thoughs are conarete things, which continue to exist after the thinker has left the place, and that the act of thinking sets np thought waves which resemble wireless waves. He arrived at his conclusion by means of mental images.

Dr. Langser has been responsible for solving some of the world's most baffling crimes. In 1921 he succeeded, after the police had confessed themselves baffled, in bringing about the arrest of the men responsible for the bomb outrage in Bucharest, when several Cabinet Ministers were injured.

He also assisted the British military authorities in breaking up a dangerous gang of Chinese pirates operating on the Southern Chinese coast.