POLICE SCIENCE NOTES.

The article reports on abstracts of articles on criminal cases, laboratory examinations, legal decisions, fingerprints and photography and others. Some of these abstract are as follows: An interesting case involving the identification of a suspect by means of a coat is reported in the April- June 1938 by Detective Inspector R. Tankard of the Birkenhead Borough Police. A police officer, in attempting to arrest a man accused of indecent exposure was suddenly attacked; a struggle followed, and the suspect made his escape, leaving behind his coat, hat and raincoat. A few hours later a hat, coat and overcoat were stolen from a house not far from the scene of the attack upon the officer. This occurrence was connected at once with the assault and a description was broadcast of the assailant and the stolen clothing. By this means the offender was traced to Liverpool. In another incident, while establishing the guilt of Adam Richetti for his participation in the Kansas City Union Station massacre the state produced expert testimony to the effect that a cartridge found at the scene of the crime had been fired from a pistol recovered from "Pretty Boy" Floyd, whom eye witnesses identified as a participant in the shooting while in company with the defendant.