A ROBOT BLOODHOUND

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 5, 19 January 1942, Page 2

A ROBOT BLOODHOUND

SENDS MURDERER TO THE

ELECTRIC CHAIR

Confident that he had an unbreakable alibi, Anton Mysl'.vec, American ex-convict, laughed at his police captors when they arrested him for the murder of William Dobitz, a Long Island contractor, to whose wife Mysiivec had been paying attention . Mysiivec told the police that he had been in Jamaica on the November night last year when Dobitz at the door of his own home, was shot down and fatally wounded by the blast of a hidden shotgun.

But the ex-convict's confidence collapsed when, springing a surprise measure, hitherto unadopted by the Law, District Attorney Fred Munder p.aced belore the jury the evidence of a new crime-detection machine, which has been christened by newshounds, the "robot-bloodhound." The "robot-bloodhound"— scientifically a new and improved type of speetograph—testified that on the night of the murder of Dobitz, Mysiivec was standing in the exact spot from which, according to police calculations, the fatal shot was fired. The jury accepted this testimony, and convicted the prisoner of first degree murder, which carries with it a mandatory sentence of the electric chair. The "robot-bloodhound"—which authorities consider will go. on to become in-dispensable in future criminal cases—requires no footprints o r previous scent of its quarry to get its results.

It tracks down its man through Lhc dust that lodges in his clothing, the tiny bits of earth that cling to his clothes, the claj- or sand -which must inevitably find their way into the "cuffs" of his. trousers.

case, council for the defence has attacked the new machine on the grounds of credibility and lack of precedent. Prosecution, however, are convinced that the "robotbloodhound" will be upheld to become' a regular ally of law.