Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-17
NEW HAVEN. CONN. MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17 ls9l.

pass by it. A snap shot or instantaneous picture of him in at once obtained, which is sufficient, even when he refuses to 20 to the photographic room to have his picture taken, or when he tries to distort his face when posing.
 :" But the amusing thing about it. said M. Bertillon, is that they all play the same game. They are afraid that if they refuse positively to pose before the operator they may injure their case. So they come to the studio with 8 handkerchief applied to one side of the face, crying with the tooth ache and making all sorts of grimsces. It is necessary to postpone the operation un-
 til the next day. A few of the cunning ones we can't get the better of; so we have to content ourselves with the snap shots taken unknown to them.
 cone of the first results of the anthro- pometric service was to get rid of the Eng fish pickpockets. As you know, the Eng ish pickpockets are very correct and very elegant gentleman. They always operate in threes. One commits the act, then he passes the pocketbook to the second, who waits, and he in turn passes it to the third, who skips The two others remain appar- ently indifferent to everything. The de- tective who watches a pickpocket at work can't watch three at @ time. He collars the first thief, who becomes highly indig- nant and threatens to complain to his ann bassabor. He is brought to the station. Nothing is found on him. He gives most excellent references. The detective is use lessly sure of the fellows guilt. He can not sustain charge that is with proof. So we are obliged to release the rascal after having offered to him our most humble ex- euses.
 "When the anthropometric system was first established we began to take the meas urements of these honorable gentlemen, and also their photographs It would not do to refuse to pose, because honest people could offer no objection; and, moreover, they could not see that there was anything dangerous in it, because they did not know how the thing worked.
 " The first fellow that was pinched second time for theft of this kind, and recognized in spite of his denials and the perfection of his disguise, was terribly surprised and abashed when confronted with the evidence. But he afterwards warned the others, for all these gentlemen form vast free masonry of their own, and the result was that they came to the conclusion that Paris had become very unhealthy town for them
 ''The greater number of the capitals of Europe have borrowed from the Paris Pre- IecUuIo or IOllco tHe OrSallZhtlou Ol tAc studio introduced by NJ. Bertillon. Moth ing could be more ingeniously disposed. He has arrived at the most extraordinary results, and with means of the most mar vellous simplicity. I hold as excellent sou venirs of my visit the pictures which he took of me upon the chair where all the criminals of the present time have posed together with all the learned men and the curious who are interested in criminality in Europe. Doctor Lombroso appeared there like the rest. He has rummanged through these albums, and has extracted from them great amount of singular points and suggestions. Others less cele- brated have done the same. Upon this subject M Bertillon told me an amusing anecdote about Swiss servant who visited the studio, upon whom they played the same trick that was played upon me. When he found his own picture, instead of seeing through the joke and laughing at it, he took the thing seriously. That is strange indeed, said he, after examining the photograph for long tine. It is con- trary to the theory of Lombroso, for this criminals looks like me. I can see the resemblance, and, for all that, I fisttsr myself that I am an honest man. After great deal of trouble he at last was per suaded that he was the victim of Il little practical joke"