CRIME DETECTION
AN EXPERT'S PROMOTION Superintendent Alexander Bell, appointed Chief Constable and head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department, has had a long experience of Scotland Yard's methods of preventing and detecting crime. The process by which the new C.I Pchief brought to justice Airs. Bryant for poisoning her farmhand husband at Sherborne provides a classic illustration of thoroughness. Alexander Bell searched tor arsenic in the Bryants cottage. Tic bought three paint brushes, swept iln- .lust from every floor, every mat; collected it from Cupboards, stairs, the pocket of an overcoat, the bottom of n uraui. He made 156 packets of samples fur analysis. Arsenic was found in forty of the samples.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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