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This afternoon I’ve been reading a Met Police file, from 1905, about how to take casts of foot prints using plaster of Paris, olive oil and black lead dust. The only specialist equipment needed was a camel hair brush to dust the print before oiling it and applying the plaster 1/2
The spookiest crime object has to be the Whitby hand of glory 👉 https://t.co/7k7tuG5Dgz 🎃💀#crimhist #Halloween
Novelist, playwright and creator of one of the first detective novels, Wilkie Collins, died #OTD in 1889. 'Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.' (The Moonstone, 1868)