The writer was once an expert witness in what then was a famous case. The defendant, a young and handsome woman previously of unimpeachable character, was being sued for divorce. Two witnesses swore that they had seen her come to an open window, facing south, at seven o’clock in the morning, in a house in which she should not have been, stand for several minutes looking into the garden upon which the window faced, clad only in her night robe. Unfortunately the woman was not able to establish a satisfactory alibi for the morning in question, and she stood facing a terrible calamity with no power to establish her innocence. Her accusers had given as a reason why she stood so long at the open window that the morning was warm and balmy. But, fortunately for the innocent woman, the weather records came to her defense when her case seemed hopeless and her life was about to be blighted with a scandal from which she never would be able to free herself, and proved that at the very time when she was supposed to have been standing in the open window a torrential rain was falling and a wind of fifty miles per hour was beating upon the outside of the window panes. The woman was acquitted and one of the witnesses spent several hundred balmy mornings behind prison bars. At another time the writer came into a case where a robber had shot and killed a citizen who surprised him in the committing of his crime. The robber was on trial for murder and his lawyers were attempting to clear him by the introduction of evidence to prove that the day was so foggy that the State’s witnesses had blundered and seized the wrong man when they chased the murderer around a corner. The weather expert destroyed the only evidence that tended to raise a doubt in the mind of the jury as to the man’s guilt, by testifying that fog could come to the surface of the earth only when the air was abnormally light and the wind calm or only gentle; while at the time of the murder the barometer was unusually high and the wind brisk. Here again the meteorological records aided in vindicating the right, and secured the conviction and execution of a brutal murderer.