The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-15

Noses are clews to crime. II GRIM
inals sin does not find him out his
nose Is very likely to betray him.
With the nose under suspicion, as II
we're, an entertaining series Of specu-
iations Is afforded the observer. He
wonders what his own nose says about
him, and be finds himself studying the
evidence outlined in the noses OF
sthers.
Science accepts the human nose as !
truthful witness, with testimony for /
or against its owner.
August brahms. resident chaplain OF /
The State Prison at San Quentin, Cali /
tornia, has expounded this interesting |
theory, with voluminous statistical |
reasons to justify 4. IN a book called /
The Criminal; i Scientific Study"
which is just nov attracting the at
teRtion OF the entire scientific world.
Says brahms, in the San Francisco
Examiner, concerning the nose, the
feature which, in his opinion, Is ma
tures sign of warning when she would
reveal the true character of man or
woman:
Criminal Noses.
The nasal indices in normals are
iesa than those OF criminals. The
nose, generally rectilinear, large, and
frequently crooked or malformed, with
large wings and orifces, sometimes
undulating and with uplifting base, is
criminals / found. upon examination,
"A per cent possessed noses deviating
to one side or malformed; among
thieves, 46 per cent crooked. and
among homicides, AZ per cent. Lom-
broso found % per cent crooked noses
among female offenders; fat noses, 40
per cent in normals; IL per cent in
homicides and 20 per cent in thieves.
Malformations are doubtless largely
due through accident, attributable to
their wandering habits, drunken
brawls and general recklessness."
Compare the criminal nose above
with the others shown and then carry
your studies into the street. You will
ind the study fascinating and there
will be much to startle the keen OBJ
server. The criminal nose here given
Is composite from the photographs
of half a dozen confirmed criminals,
men who are vicious not by accident
but from deliberate choice and be-
cause they have brute blood in their
veins. The clerical nose is that of
the Rev. DR.. Mackenzie. The poetic
nose is that of Edwin Markham. The
moneyed man is Daniel Meyer. Judge
North. of San Francisco, represents
the judicial type and the Governor of
California serves to illustrate the poll
tician. The athlete is 'Lanky Bob"
Fitzsimmons and the actor is compc-
site type.
Chaplain brahms is an interesting
teacher on the subject of criminals in
their variety. Learn of him if you
would pick your criminal from among
his fellow creatures. He has studied
to such excellent purpose that the pub
ushed results of his researches will be
placed alongside authorities on Grim
lnology.
Startling Statement
A startling statement, which will es
pecially interest the layman, is made
BY Mr.. brahms to the effect that the
greater per cent of criminals in for
eign countries is furnished by the
churches, while in America the church
IS do not contribute to crime.
Lomb-oso, the great Italian Grim
lnologist, upon this point states tina
81 per cent of the violators and Sc PEI
cent of the assassins in Italy frequen
churches.
Chaplain brahms is of the opinion
tha. american criminals as class ar
different from the criminal classes o
foreign countries, and that the causes
of their criminality are different HI
says:
Careful inquiry convinces me tina
not one half of 1 per cent of the tota
prison population held actual member
shin in good standing with any churcl
at the time Of committal to prison
and. as to the habitual criminal, o
ricidivist. / have never known such a.
instance"
Is it true. then, that American
churches are so much more potent thai
foreign churches in the matter of re
straining from crime those who com
regularly under their influence?
Human Beings Are Savages.
Iombroso declares that a human ne
Ing is a savage universally at heart. n
matter where he is. just as a dog is
and that he has to be educated int
doeility and amenability to law. eve
into a recognition that law for tn
common government of himself an
his neighbors is necessary. Natural
he Is of a common type In his savage
nv and, as the professor sees 1t, nc
aifferent in one place from what he
In another. 1t was simply the addic
zion OF some men to peace and honest
IN the first place which suggested tn
difference between good and bad an
ro,sed ND scale OF rewards for tn
one and of punishments for the other
and the men so afflicted by that mrs
touch of morality were greatly In IN
minority. Indeed. law was created l