ONE WOULD THINK, in an institution such as ours, that any one person would know generally what was going on in all parts.  When it is remembered that we cover four blocks of property, with eight buildings, some with as many as five floors with many offices, it is not surprising that no one of us knows all that is going on in all of them.
    One day I saw four men coming into The B.J. Palmer Clinic, with one of them handcuffed and leg-ironed.  This was unusual.  Was he sick?  If so, why the irons?  Later, I asked B.J. what was the big idea?  The answer was laconically, “Crime detection.”  I was curious, so I asked for an explanation.
    “Man is a dual intellectuality — Innate and Educated.  Whatever has happened is known to Innate.  Innate does not lie, always remembers, gets the facts straight, does not equivocate, tells the truth.  Educated man tells white lies, prevaricates, evades, misrepresents, avoids, and otherwise tries to defeat the ends of issues.  Innate does not steal, murder, or in any way defeat the ends of life, health, and sanity.  Educated man will do all these, and then avoid paying the penalty if he can.
    “If educated man has committed a ‘crime’ against Innate’s law, Innate knows exactly when, where, how and why it was done.  If suspicion falls on the educated man, he attempts to evade telling the truth about when, where, how, and why he did it.
    “The Keeler Polygraph — the only one in Iowa — we use in our crime detection work is a dual recording instrument.  It records what Innate knows as well as what educated man wants to forget.
    “Dr. Keeler takes his instrument to jails, homes, offices, anywhere the suspected criminal is.  He is up against the same energetic variables in atmosphere that we are in our research work.  Obviously, when he gets a graph of the answers, he is reading in the variables which does not give him a 100 per cent accurate finding on his suspect.
    “In all our crime detection work, the suspect must come to us, in our shielded and ground lab.  This make it possible for us to get only the exclusive constant of the reactions of Innate as well as education, to our questions.
    “Here is our procedure: We place the suspect at his ease.  We permit him to relax fifteen to thirty minutes.  We place him to every advantage.  In so doing, we actually place him at his greatest disadvantage because it makes our graphs more correct.
    “The people you saw come into our office, Herb, were the suspect, the sheriff, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the crime was committed and the Chief of Police.
    “We ask them to repeat the entire story of the crime.  This story is taken down in shorthand by our secretary.  It is then typewritten in full.  On the basis of this, we reenact the crime as nearly as possible.  On this basis we formulate the questions to be asked the suspect.
    “When we are ready to make the test, we ask three series of questions: 1st.  The norm.  Simple questions, such as ‘Did you have breakfast this morning?’  To this, he answers ‘Yes,’ which is the truth.  There may be twenty of these questions.  2nd.  A series of simple questions to which we ask him to deliberately lie — such as, ‘Did you have breakfast this morning?’  Having had breakfast and knowing he did, he answers ‘No.’  We now have a normal reaction to questions as well as the lie answers.  3rd.  These are direct questions pertaining to the crime itself, in which he is supposed to have taken a leading part.  We now have three sets of questions and answers for comparison.
    “To the third set of questions, his education will avoid acknowledging he was a participant, but Innate knows whether or not he did do the things we ask him.  The educated reactions will answer ‘No,’ whereas the Innate reactions will answer ‘Yes,’ assuming he is guilty.
    “By conducting these tests in a shielded and grounded booth, in our lab, we eliminate any extraneous factors that might react to his disadvantage.
    “These graphs have four simultaneous records.  They may be as long as ten or twelve feet.
    “We have tested murders, stealing, raping, kidnapping, etc.  To date, we have had a 100 per cent accurate record.  When the graphs said the suspect was guilty, courts and juries have convicted.  When we said he was innocent, courts and juries have acquitted.  How long we can keep up this record remains to be seen.  We base this accuracy upon the process we use to secure the records.
    “We recall one case where the state, through its prosecuting attorney, wanted the tests made on a murder suspect.  Our records revealed he was innocent.  When it came to trial, the prosecution refused to let us testify to what our records revealed.  It would have been damaging to his side of the case.  However, we secured sufficient offer to prove which was before the jury, and he was acquitted.
    “So far as we know, there has been only one case carried to a Supreme Court wherein such evidence has been adjudicated as permissible testimony on the innocence or guilt of the suspect.
    “The general belief is that any strong-minded individual can defeat the records of the graphs.  We are convinced no person, no matter how strong his education, can defeat the knowledge of Innate when recorded and taken under the most exacting conditions, eliminating extraneous variables.
    “We could tell some interesting cases we have had.  Some day when we have more time and when it is for some other purpose than this Preface you are writing, we will tell them to you.
    “Why do we do this crime detecting work?  Because it is another way of proving the fundamental Chiropractic principle that Innate is our source of correct and accurate memory.  Innate knows what did happen and Innate does not lie; therefore, in getting Innate to record her thoughts, we are studying another means of communicating with Innate.”

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