Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-11
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Sergeant Thomas r. Adams Is in charge
of the photograph md record depart
ments, and he is tho inventor Of the
rogues gallery, though the idea Of the
gallery originated in the headpiecc Of
Superintendent Daniel Carpenter. Ser
geant Isaac Bird, for thirty-two years
on the force, is in charge of the rogues.
; II a man has been robbed or buncoed,
he, II he knows enough, will HE him
to the central office and examine the
two thousand rogues He is almost
sure TO pick out of the lot his enemy,
Say he picks out 500, and says, "That
Is the man. Sergeant Adams goes 10
his Office, opens one of the innumerable
drawers, picks out an envelope marked,
1926. Charles LeathercheeS sneak,
white, feet 10 inches, age 49,, served
two years in Charlestown, scar over
left eyebrow, sandy hair, imps, has a
bullet in his kneecap, small eyes,
black" That envelope also contains
many newspaper clippings, every clip
ping bearing on so6s career. In less
than twenty-four hours, 500 is again
Ia the waiting-room of justice, That
is the good of a rogues' gallery.
Nobody knows who the photographer
OF the rogues Is, outside Sergeant
Adams and the officers. He wouldn't dare
to give any information to u newspaper
man, nor sell one picture, though there
is nothing to prevent him from having
one of the two finest collections Of Grim
inals in the land.
The rogues are taken In all sorts Of
positions. Many rogue struggled so
that it took four men to hold him.
There is a well-known picture, the ORR
ginal Of which is in Inspector Byrnes'
office. Of burglar named Tom Feath-
erstone being held by four officers, He
Is struggling in their grasp as an un-
tanned broncho struggles in the hands
of four cowboys. But they do
things different now. They lead rogue
nm 10 a camera. In nearly all cases
he twists his face out of shape. The
photographer takes out the plate looks
at 1t. gives howl Of disgust, shakes his
est AZ the criminal, and goes for an
other plnte. Then the prisoner thinks
that he is somebody in particular, and
looks his pleasantest Click and a CON
ccaled, camera has got him forever
Sometimes he finds out that he has
been tricked, and then he doesn't pray
bbt in nearly all cases he thinks that
he has outwitted the officers and th'
photographer. ~
Sergeant Adams says that nearly all
.-.,,s,rl,.talsen pictires in his gallery
come from Southern and Western
towns where the insistence Of the po-
lice h not to be mentioned in the same
breath with that Of New
Yorl.'s finest He says ina
all the women cry mufoe'
, when they are invited TO look pleas
antly at the camerai but they all ems
bv liking up, and eombing and orasn
,ny their hair. One shophfter dc
msnded eurling-irons Of sergealn
Adams before she would consent 70 .
,,erpetuated, because she wanted
'''send one TO my feller' The yonn
criminals OF both sexes take inc oei
pictures, for they really think that
is honor "tsr git inter der gallery
OF H.. ere some very sood-looEii
ose my ~ he gallery, and rev pol
sur bu, aaoIne ones. There are
, pretty rousn. All the women iooh
Il thy deserved lot Of pity. Inc
are iaoes IN the gallery that "e ,
brighten the slave-hnnteFs Of AeH-' =
! int ',eea9.l AGA. IL ps on q