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SCIENCE AND THE CRIMINAL




_UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK_

HYPNOTISM AND SUGGESTION

By BERNARD HOLLANDER, M.D.

"It is the work of a man of established reputation, who has devoted
himself for years to the subject, and whose aim it is to tell what
Hypnotism really is, what it can do, and to what conclusions it seems to
point."--_Globe._




[Illustration: TRIAL OF CAROLINE RUDD

_Frontispiece_]




  SCIENCE AND THE CRIMINAL

  BY C. AINSWORTH MITCHELL


  BOSTON
  LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
  1911




TO MARK HANBURY BEAUFOY, ESQ., J.P. AS A MARK OF REGARD AND ESTEEM




PREFACE


In the following pages I have endeavoured to give some account of the ways
in which scientific discovery has been utilised in the struggle between
society and the criminal.

I have tried to describe the principles upon which different kinds of
scientific evidence are based, and at the same time to bring human
interest into what would otherwise tend to be dry detail by giving an
outline of trials in which such evidence has been given. It is, perhaps,
hardly necessary to mention that in many of these illustrative trials the
accused persons were proved innocent of the charges brought against them,
and that although their cases were tried in the criminal courts the title
of the book in no way applies to them.

For the accounts of the older trials I have drawn freely upon Cobbett's
_State Trials_, Paris and Fonblanque's _Medical Jurisprudence_, and the
first edition of