The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-13
DETECTING CRIMINALS.
St. Louis Detective Tells How It IS
 Done by Means of Photographs.

 St. Louis Detective Tells How It Is i Done by Means of Photographs.
 i Photographs are very useful in the detection of criminals, but cOnsidera- ble practice has to be acquired before they can be used to any great advan- tage. Criminals resort to all sorts of tricks in changing their appearance besides change of dress, clipping hair, shaving off the beard or altering it's style, etc. The process of shaving off the mustache and beard and clipping the hair by criminal is known in the parlance of detectives as ring ing" But there is one unmistakable manner of scrutinizing the counte- nance of man or in studying his pict- ure. There is one portion of the face that criminals can not change in their methods of ringing" Draw a circle over the face, taking in the eyes, eye brows, lower part of the fore head, the nose and that part of the cheeks on each side of the nasal organ and just beneath the eyes. This portion of the face always remains the same. A man can shave long beard off, clip his hair, and leave or shave his mustache, but that portion of the face within the circle described above will remain the same. Dissipation and consumption will sometimes make decided hollow ap- of tho ond fhn nhnnl< will become sunken, but an experi- enced detective will identify the man nine times out of ten, nevertheless. The manner in which detective fixes an impression of the features of a criminal in his mind is very simple. A small magnifying glass the size of a half dollar is held over that portion of the photo described in the circle, which enlarges the impression of the eyes and other marks of identification until the detective very easily gets a clear conception of that portion of the criminals face. This conception he carries in his mind and is, of course, aided by a full description, which attends, of course, the photo of every criminal in rogues' gallery, and any marks on the body or any peculiar twitch of muscles or gait of walking, and, in fact, all peculiari- ties noticeable, are mentioned, and when these full mental notes of criminal are before the detectives minds eye it is not so strange that he can pick his man out of a large crowd and rarely make mistake. Detectives often identify criminals from pictures which look but very little like the originals, and persons who do not un- derstand the art of scrutinizing a physiognomy would declare that mistake had been made. One of the most successful criminals in ringing
 i'll this country is James Carroll, the noted bank sneak, who is now serv- ing term of eight years at the Joliet penitentiary for rob- ping the safe of bank in Gales burg, III. His picture, taken over ten years ago, adOrns almost every rogues' gallery in the United States. It rep resents him with a long flowing beard and long hair, with a higl forehead and no mustache. One night several years ago the police brought in man on suspicion, and he was lodged in the holdover, at the Four Courts. Chief was passing through the holdover on his regular rounds to identify any criminals that might be there. He came to prisoner whose face at once struck him as being the original of photo in the rogue's gallery. He step- ped upstairs to the gallery, and in few minutes found the picture of the prisoner. It was Jimmy Carroll, the bank-robber. But nobody but an expe- rienced defective would have ever iden- tifed the prisoner by the photo we had, and which have been described above Carroll had his hair cut short and cOmbed it down on his forehead, his beard was clipped very short, and the greatest change of all was that he wore mustache. He looked very much younger than the picture we had, which was taken nine years pre- vious. His mouth dropped at the cor ners, his under lip showed plainly, while the upper lip was covered, which was directly opposite to our picture. But Mir. O'Neil's identification was no mistake. The features of the robbers fann IErif hin hn nino1n fhof ho6 haoV1 described were the same as nine years before, and by that circle he was identified. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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