LAW’S NEW TERROR

Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 8

LAW’S NEW TERROR

“THOUGHT WAVE” ARRESTS MURDER SUSPECT. For the first tune in the history ol crime “ thought waves ” have boon 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, Canada, 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 a fruitless search by neighbours and police, Dr Adolph 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 thought, while members of the Alberta police stood close by. Finally the doctor stepped towards a police commissioner, and said ; “ I suggest that your men search that patch of scrub there,” pointing to a spot some distance from the house. “ I feel that the son threw the rifie there.” The scrub was searched and a rifle found, and when this was shown to Vernon Booher, the twenty-year-old son of the murdered woman, lie confessed to tho 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 sou was suspected of the murder. Ho declared that thoughts are concrete things, which continue to exist after the thinker lias left the place, and that the act of thinking sets up thought waves which resemble wireless waves. He arrived at the conclusion by means of mental images. Dr Langser has been responsible for solving some of the world’s most loaffling crimes. Li ',1921 bo succeeded, after the police had confessed them selves 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.