The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-13
MARKS THAT BETRAY
IT Is RATHER HARD FOR ONE TO
CONCEAL ONES IDENTITY.

Detectives Helped by Trivial DAsttn-
gushing signs - Your Eye, Your
Finger Nails, Your Clothes or Your
Build May Reveal You.
Everybody carries about with him
many trivial distinguishing marks by
means of which shrewd detective can
discover his identity. Take the matter
Of clothes. Most men get all their CLOTH
Ing from the same tailor, but whether
one does or not and however careful he
may be to cut off every tag and marx
the tailor who made the clothes can
Identify them. Thread, stitching, Dut-
tons. linlngs--all tell their own tale.
More especially do those extras when
the tailors call specials" These are the
extra pockets, fountain pen or pencil
pockets, eyeglass pockets, watch pock'
cts lined with wash leather, cigar. tick
ct. flask and inner waistcoat pockets.
1t will be remembered that 1t was by
means OF II 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 to
betray you. Any manicure VIII tell you
that it takes between 105 and 130 days
for new finger nail to grow upon the
hand OF a man In ordinary health. ac-
cording to his age, the nail growing
quicker on the young and slower on the
old. So any bruise or other mark re-
ceived on the white crescent at the base
Of the nail will take nearly four months
10 disappear.
1t was n knowledge of this fact that
enabled n detective to arrest the forgeE
! Simpson In Paris some time ago. lie
/ learned from Simpsons landlord tn
Bristol that n window bad fallen upon
the mans hand and bruised his thumb
! some time In the first week OF March
few days before he disappeared.
Four months later, when the detec'
| tive met Simpson in Paris. the black
! spot was just disappearing from the tlp
Of the thumb nail. IL was the only
means OF eN!fication. for Simpson. BY
shaving his bead and dressing like a
priest. had absolutely changed bis ap
pearance.
Some time ago a criminal was brought
to justice by the Testimony OF his owr
watch, one which he had carried fol
years. He was charged with murder
and his defense was an alibi. which h'
nearly proved. lie said that he had no
been near the scene of the murder fol
three months. and no testimony COAX
| 10 s.rA.1.,Hui tia4 S,n4 f1i1tFsy 4hs
truth until one of the detectives who a
one time had been "A jewelers. appren
tice happened TO look at the man
watch.
Inside the watch case, written II
signs that only a matchmaker coult
read. was the evidence that the time
piece had been la the hands of ~
murder With the watch In his hand
the detective visited the town nea
which the murder had been committee
and went around from one jeweler
shop to another uutii he found watch
maker who recognized the tImepiece a
one in which he had put a new main
spring on the day preceding the mur
ueE. u nus @ue aA1h WIS t61Afn AcN
and the prisoner finally made a fsiil con
feSsIon
Again. only one man IN Hls is no
lopsided and badly put together. Man
man who IL nae athlete aud Il
splendid physical health wousl b
amazed 10 find bow unevenly he I
made up ls he should undergo the tes
of a measuring tape Either one arr
or one leg is longer than the other, on
shoulder higher than the other, or, still
more frequently. the eyes are not tn
same or placed in the head IN exactl
the s1me way.
People have been identified by th
fact that the pupa OF one eye was lar
ger than that of the other. The nose 1
very seldom exactly straight. bu
swerves little 10 the right or left
though the defect IL not noticeable I
the ordinary observer Above all. ma
who Is starting out on criminal caree
| should never go TO dentist. The fllini
OF the teeth IL n sure record. aud evel
If the criminal has all his teeth pulIe'
his false teeth will he as sure q mean
of identification.