The old drawings of Edinburgh being used by an architect to solve murders
And, of course, there was the fact that few murders are committed by men with no arms. But in July 1919, and the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh would be shown a detailed ‘CSI’ style plan of the crime scene – even down to his victim’s blood stains. Drawn by James Robertson of the office of the Burgh Engineer of Edinburgh, it showed fine detail of the one-roomed lodgings on the second floor of 88 Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh’s Old Town. The 102-year-old crime scene plan is just one of several unearthed by John Lowrey, Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at Edinburg...
Source: heraldscotland.com