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...Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, 48, author-turned-lawyer, who styles himself in Who's Who as an "outstanding penologist and criminologist," announced in Paris he will run for the Senate next year as an anti-New Dealer against Florida's Senator Charles Oscar Andrews...
Died. Edmund Lester Pearson, 57, literary criminologist (The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Murder at Smutty Nose, Studies in Murder); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
Attending a session of the West Palm Beach Criminal Court fortnight ago in his capacity as deputy sheriff and amateur criminologist, muscular Author Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe (G-Man, Knockout) saw 14-year-old Anthony Anastor brought up to be sentenced for stealing a sailboat, persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. "I played fair with you, didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing...
...puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form the jury. Inventor of Jury Box is Criminologist Roy Post, whose other discoveries include a device for taking fingerprints off corpses. Inventor Charles Darrow, before he began to monopolize the field of after-dinner entertainment, was a prosperous engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like...
Although it has rarely if ever been done successfully, experts say it is possible for criminals to mutilate their fingerprints with acid or otherwise until recognition is dubious or impossible. Medical societies have been shown photographs of faces completely altered by plastic surgery. Year ago Dr. Carleton Simon, Manhattan criminologist, proposed an identification system based on the pattern of blood vessels in the eye, which is never the same in any two individuals (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). A malefactor would not be able to beat this system, Dr. Simon pointed out, unless he blinded himself. Last week two Iowa State...