“Then you hold that every crime admits of solution by purely psychological processes?”
The speaker was Collins, friend of my youth and well entitled, I believe, to hts reputation as the best police reporter in New York.
“No,” continued Carlton Clarke to the little company of newspaper men who hud foregathered with us at the old Martin’s after the theatre; “not every crime, but the immense majority. My argument is that every act of man when he transcends the normal leaves its own distinctive psychological impress that distinguishes one crime from all other crimes. When these theories, now in infancy, are better understood and applied, the detection of crime will link with the study of material clues, especially the tracing of whatever psychological processes of the subjective mind led up
