Article October 12, 1899 Issue

The X-Ray a False Witness

Minneapolis Times

Like its forerunner, the ordinary photographic camera, the X-ray machine can be made to tell the most outrageous falsehoods. That venerable deception, the so-called spirit photograph, can be discounted by the shadowgraph, and with no great effort or remarkable ingenuity on the operator's part either.

A Chicago electrical specialist has been making some interesting experiments at the suggestion of the attorneys of the Chicago City Railway Company and others, and the results are somewhat startling. They tend to show that shadowgraphs may need a great deal of corroboration when introduced as evidence in a damage suit.

One of the lawyers exposed his hand before the machine with the muscles relaxed, fingers extended, and the member generally in normal position. The shadowgraph showed the bones to be in perfect condition. The attorney then made a second exposure of the same hand, cramping the first joints of the fingers slightly. The ends of the fingers appeared to have been crushed and the bones were apparently of unnatural size.

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