Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-22
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Finger Nails. Yoa. Clothes or Your
Bald Nay IeSeai .ou.
Everybody carries about with him
many trivial DIST ueu.aIin. marks b:
means OF wnic.l sArcSsd detective cas
discover his identity Take the matter
OF clothes. Most men get al ter cloth
Ing from the same tailor. but whe ther
one docs OF not and however careful h
may be to cut of every tag and l-.ar
The tailor who made the clothes tau
identity them. Thread. stitching. bun
tons. Hninss-aI tell Their own ta.e.
More especially do those extras whies
the taiiors call specials These are I--
extra pockets. fountain pen or peiE.:.
pockets. eyeglass pockets, watch poek
cts lined with wash leather. cigar. tick
ct flask and inner waistcoat pockets.
1t will be remembered that X was By
means of a trousers button that the
identity of Norcross, the man who tried
to blow up Russell Sage. was discov-|
cred. =
Then your finger nails are liable &c
Dclidy YOU AIN w LA VA
that il takes between 10o and $50 daysl
for new finger nail to grow upon thu
hand of "A man in ordinary health. nc
cording TO his age. the nail growing.
quicker on the young and slower on tin
old. So any bruise or other mark re
ceived OH the white crescent at the 5asa
of the nail will take nearly four month";
to disappear
1t was Il knowledge of this fact thai
enabled detective to arrest the forge.
Simpson in Paris some tine ago. a.
learned from Simpsons landlord ii
Bristol that a window had fallen upo.
the mans hand and bruised lis thuml
some time in the first week of March |
few days before he disappeared
-Four months later. when the detet I
tive met Simpson in Paris. the biacl |
spot was just disappearing from the Il. /
of the thumb nail 1t was the oal, |
means of identification. for Simpson. b, |
shaving his head and dressing like |
priest. had absolutely changed his up |
pearance.
Some time ago criminal was brough |
TO j.lstice by the testimony of his owl /
watch. one which he had carried TO |
years. lie was charged with n.urdet
and his defense was an abb. which h,
nearly proved. He said that he had no
been near the scene of the murder 70
three months. and no testimony couit
be produced that he was not telling tn
truth until one of the detectives who a
one time had been a jewelers. appren
tice happened TO look at tie man.
watch
Inside the watch case. written il
signs that only matchmaker could
read. WAS the evidence that the time
piece Lad been in the Lands Of n re
pairer of watches the eay before th.
murder. With tie watch in his hands
the detective visited the town neas /.
which the murder had been committed
and went around from one jeweler's
shop to another until he found Il watch
maker who recognized tie timepiece ~
one in which he had put new main
spring on the day preceding the muir
der. Thus the alibi was broken down
and the prisoner finally made full con
fesSion.
Again. only one man in 215 is not
opsided and badly put together. MANY
4 man who is a fine athlete a2d i'll
splendid physical health would bt
amazed 10 find how unevenly he i,
made up if he should undergo the test
If a measuring tape. Either one arm
,r one leg is longer than the other. one
shoulder higher than the other. or still
more frequently. the eyes are not the
same or placed in the Lead in exactly
he same way.
People have been identified by the
act that the pupil of one eye was lar
Ter than that of the other. The nose is
cry seldom exactly straight, but {
werves Il little TO the right or left
hough the defect is not noticeable to
he ordinary observer. Above all. man
Who IS starting out on a criminal career
ao,ild never go to dentist The films
f the teeth is Il sure record and even,
f the criminal has all his teeth pulled
is false teeth viii be as sure a means
1 identification.