![]() ![]() Others had specifications which might or might not be adhered to. The task turned out to be colossal, for he soon found that many makers of pistols and revolvers had no fixed specifications for these things, and that the dimensions varied from gun to gun and from year to year. In an attempt to remedy this condition and obtain some of the data which he urgently needed in his own investigations, he began to collect and tabulate such information as width of lands, width and number of grooves of rifling, twist of rifling, diameter of bore and grooves, and various other important dimensions which the criminal investigator would be likely to need to know. Early in his work along this line, he found that the data on the characteristics of various makes of hand firearms were unsatisfactory in quantity, woefully incomplete in many instances, incorrect in others, and not only inadequate but scattered and hard to refer to. Since his „retirement“ on July 1, 1952, he has been putting in full time working at his hobby of improving the methods of criminal identification by scientific methods. He has lectured widely on scientific criminal identification and has given a course of lectures on this subject each year for 15 years at the University of Wisconsin. Several of his cases have attracted international as well as national attention, and his work has been highly commended by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in a Supreme Court decision, by the Wisconsin Bar Association, and by international experts. Mathews is the possessor of a superbly equipped laboratory devoted to firearms identification work containing many instruments designed by him and employing techniques which he developed or discovered in nearly 40 years of work in this field. Besides being a Past-President of the Madison Rotary Club, the Madison Professional Men's Club, and of the Madison University Club, he is also a founder of the professional chemical fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma, a Fellow of the A.A.A.S., and a long time member of the American Chemical Society as well as the organizer of the first Annual Colloid Symposium. Army, and from 1919 until his retirement in 1952 he was a Professor in the University of Wisconsin, with the duties of Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Course in Chemistry. During World War I, Professor Mathews served 18 months in the Ordnance Department of the U.S. For 16 years he was a member of the Madison, Wisconsin, Police and Fire Commission, and for a time he was president of that body. As a result of his success in this case, other cases, including firearms examinations and identifications, soon came to his laboratory and, as his well-deserved reputation in this work spread, the demand for his services rose until he now has a record of several hundred important cases successfully completed and can be considered one of the world's outstanding experts in this field. His first criminal case was in 1923 and involved the metallographic analysis of certain parts of a bomb which had killed one person and badly injured another. Mathews, a 1903 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with later Master's and Doctor's degrees from Harvard, is one of the real pioneers in criminal investigation work involving firearms identification. Louis, Missouri and printed by Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticutįoreword Dr. Printed in the United States of America Composed by Superior Typesetting, St. THOMAS BOOKS will be true to those laws o f quality that assure a good name and good will. it is the Publisher's desire to present books that are satisfactory as to their physical qualities and artistic possibilities and appropriate for their particular use. PUBLISHER ISBN 5-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-180107 First Printing, 1962 Second Printing, 1973 With THOMAS BOOKS careful attention is given to all details of manufacturing and design. ![]() No part of it may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher. PUBLISHER BANNERSTONE HOUSE 301-327 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.Published and Distributed Throughout the World by CHARLES C THOMAS HOWARD MATHEWS Firearms Identification VOLUME I The laboratory examination of small arms, rifling characteristics in hand guns, and notes on automatic pistols With a Foreword by Julian S. ![]()
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