This is Alphonse Bertillon. He created the “science” of anthropometry, or identification based on physical measurements. Bertillon was a witness for the prosecution in the Dreyfus Affair in 1894 and again in 1899. He testified as a handwriting expert and claimed that Alfred Dreyfus had written the incriminating documents. However, he was not a handwriting expert, and his convoluted and flawed evidence was a significant contributing factor to one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice – the condemnation of the innocent Dreyfus – to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. (Mostly from wikipedia).
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Ron Moore says:
This is Alphonse Bertillon. He created the “science” of anthropometry, or identification based on physical measurements. Bertillon was a witness for the prosecution in the Dreyfus Affair in 1894 and again in 1899. He testified as a handwriting expert and claimed that Alfred Dreyfus had written the incriminating documents. However, he was not a handwriting expert, and his convoluted and flawed evidence was a significant contributing factor to one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice – the condemnation of the innocent Dreyfus – to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. (Mostly from wikipedia).
Justin J. McShane says:
You are correct (again!)