Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-01
THE MuRDIRIRs HAND
SAID TO REVEAL MORE ABOUT HIN
THAN his FACE.

81 james Ga;siie
Has the murderer "A distinctive
hand? NJ. Deebarolles, q French
saveant, who made the hand his study,
was emphatic on that point. The
murderer, he was convinced, In known
by the thumb, and 10 this thumb he
gave the name OF the pouce on bile.
Desbarolles romarks that the faces OF
murderera mRy not necessarily be re-
puleive, but that the hands are always
hideous-self .condemnatory. Evidence
on the latter characteristic Ia but scan
ty and rests upon tho investi cations
OF the French chiromAntists; but =
20 the former II Ia a fact that some OF
tho most brutal murders ON record
have been perpetrated by men whose
countenances habliually wore mild
expr .sslon. Williams, the murderer
OF the Marrs, II Is said, had a slngularly
soft voice. A girl who knew him,
giving evidence at mis- trial, wa, asked
by the prisoner whether she would be
afraid II she awoke from sleep aud
found him standing by her bedside.
"Not II l heard your voice and knsw
II was you, Mr.. Williams," was her
reply. Mr. SCOTT, chaplain Of the pri-
son in which Dseming was executed,
says the murderer was n pleasant man
to speak to until crossed, and the
mans influence over women cetta lnly
supports this statement
Some OF the medical authorities who
examined Deeming's hands declare
his broad thumb indicated the born
murderer. Hut the drawing which
has been published IL not tnat OF the
pouce on billie. The true pouce en- billie,
| IA IA.
termed In England, gives TO the first
phalAnge u round, dubious appearance.
Ii Is short and the nall Is no abbreviat.
cd an to suggest that II has been gnsw.
ed. IL ~ Embedded In the llosh which
rises ON either aide and extends beyond
II. In the drawing OF Doeming's thumb
the dubious swelling is carried below
the phalango and the nail Is level with
the tip; but these differences may be
due to the inaccurate observation Of
the artist.
Desbarolles examined the hands OF
many murderers, and In all found the
pouce EN- bile. He also discovered
other signs. The fingers Of Armgnde
Philippe, who committed AN atrooious
murder, were bent toward the left side,
and the lines OF the palma were OF a
deep rcd, Ms though they had beer
dipped In blood. The fingers, especial.
ly the second aud third, were spatulous
az the tips, and the nails, abort and
ugly, were buried In the flesh. lac
MARE, who murdered his father and
three other persons, had crooked, spat
ulOus fingers, aud the pouce en- billie
hut on one hand only. DumOllard, a
Wholesale murderer OF the first rank,
had hand remarkable for thickness,
and length OF palm In proportion II
tue fingers. This abnormal length o
palm, according to the rules u the
science, indicates intense anlmalism
Dumollard had significant sign, com
mon to most murderors-namely, tn,
: lines OF life, head and heart. Thea,
lines were very strongly defined. rh'
line Of the head--the center line OK
tending across the palm--was violently
cut by tho line OF life, running up
wards from the wrist. ChiromauOI
interprets this TO foretell violen
, death. Desbarolles noticed It for th,
first time on the hand Of Lemairr
, and eight days afterwards saw It OF
tho hand OF Dumollard. The finger