The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-04-08
Mrs. Haines-A Study

Dorothy Dix, woman reporter for a
New York paper, who was in attendance
at the Haines trial, gave the following pen
picture Of the prisoner:
''To the criminalogist and student of
character no more interesting problem has
been presented than that of Mrs. Haines.
who, with her narrow experience, village
life and limited opportunities, has shown
herself possessed of the keenest and most
penetrating intellect, and ability to plan
and carry out line of defence that
was startling in its very boldness. She
simply denied the charges brought against
her in toto, and defied the chief witness
against her by swearing she had never seen
the woman until she came to testify
against her.
"The atrocity of the crime of which she
is accused seems almost to set her apart
from her sex: yet she is most womanly
looking woman-small, frail, and with all
woman's little niceties of dress and adorn.
ment. She would even be prettier wo-
man If she had a softer and gentler express
sion.
Most of the time during the trial Mrs
Haines has worn her coat in the court
room, and always big fluffy boa of
liberty silk around her neck that hid the
lower part Of her face, but to-day, as ii
she was suffocating under the scathinp
words of the prosecutor, she flung them
off, and one had an opportunity to study
her from physiognomists point of view
The first thing that strikes one about
her face is its contradictoriness. She is
accused of numbering a child, and vet
motherly love is her predominating char
acteristic and her face bears out bott
theories. The upper part of it is the face
OF a saint; the lower part of it is that Of
woman whose temper might goad hel
into doing any rash act. A physiognomis,
who carefully studied Mrs Haines, saws:
1.-The neck, exceptionally full in the
back, denotes an affectionate disposition
which is borne out by the conformation Of
the upper lip. The mouth is a peculiar
one. The two lips do not match. The
upper one is thin, with a queer constric
ton in the middle that makes it draw in,
while the lower lip, exceedingly full, pro.
trudes. 1t is mouth that shows temper
in its every line, and it is habitually dis.
torted by sheer that occasionally breaks
into sour smile. 1t is kind of mouth
that would always laugh at you instead
of with you.
"'The jaw, long, narrow and rather
sharply pointed, indicates unwavering de-
termination. The forehead, broad and
bullying from the crown of the head to
the eyebrows, shows intellectually and
strong reasoning powers, while the eve
brows are very thin, and, running almost
straight, indicate unusual shrewdness.
Mrs Haines eyes are very beautiful.
They are of clear brown blue-like the
color the sea takes over bed of sea weed
and they are wide open, and show low
ingness, but they are continually shifting.
and that indicates jealousy and treach
erous disposition. The upper eyelid is
more or less tightly drawn, while the
lower one is dropping, and this combina
ton also indicates jealousy.
"'The nose, exceptionally. narrow at the
bridge, indicates lack of forethought.
The nose, running straight, but tip tilted
at the end. shows a distrustful nature,
while the wide open nostrils indicate gen
erosity. The ear, large at the top, fla,
and decidedly bent forward, shows an
cratic nature. and one liable to do unex.
pected things.
1.-The cheeks, sunken back of the mouth,
indicate jealousy, while the continuous
twitching of the nostrils and quivering OF
the mouth indicate an exceedingly ner-
vous and sensitive temperament
''Such is the woman who ATS her fate
in the grim, gray walls of the Mount
Holly jail, with little child clinging tc
her knees, and another, who has never vel
breathed the air of freedom, lying upon
her breast"