A NEW INVENTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 77, 9 July 1910, Page 9

A NEW INVENTION

THE " DYXAMOMETRE." M. Bertillon, the originator of the fin-ger-print system, lias made another startling discovery that will fill the criminal classes -with terror. The eminent director of anthropometry has just completed a new apparatus which he calls '•'dynaniometre d effractions." Up to the present the police and other- bad only a vague idea of the effect that the traces of a burglar represent. It is claimed that M. Bertillon's dynametre measures exactly the muscular effort brought to bear in breaking open a door or window, or in forcing or breaking a safe, box, or other receptacle. By a system of classifying these forces he can tell whether the effort was that of a man or woman, or of one young or old. The dynaniometre is in two parts—one to measure effect by pressure, the other that of drawing or pulling. The traces that the person leaves of his movements will give his weight; his muscular strength will be shown in the character of the chips or splinters that he breaks ■ the pressure that exert on the tools his power of pulling. If. as is cornhas forgotten the ) commit the rohcan be reennstructneasurcment*. The rued in any direcposition, so that Jov every sin-fitce the condition in ice 'of the crime.