The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08

one on the other side of his head, and
when, on top of this, he raised spread
eagle mustache and goatee he was
new mollbuzzer and COPIED the mer-
chandise for long time before he was
yanked here and compared with his
Bertillon chart.
Several years ago there worked down
at the Battery a DagO grafter-phony
INTERCHANGEABLE had the worst
case of mixed signals on record. His
lamps were of a deep mazarine color,
| but they were SO crossed that the only
way he could get a cinder in ms eye
while travelling was by riding with MS
back to the engine.
His lockers were so involved that
you felt the hoodoo when you saw MN
half block away, and you Immediate
| ly hustled to a telephone to ask your
wife if the house had burned down or IL
any of the kids had developed whooping
cough or scarlet fever since you LETT
home that morning. Xxx. E
when Castle Garden was done away
with and the headquarters bunch began
to watch the shinplaster and Brazilian
bond showers down around the barge
office this duck went into the second
story line, and the first time he got
pinched for job of that kind he threw
a surprise into the headquarters staff.
He had the cutest pair of big baby
blue lamps that you ever looked into,
and they were as straight as darning
needles. The crook had made big dig
to have famous Vienna oculist unrav-
lei the kinks out Of his eyes, and when
he got back to his stamping ground ne
could chew toothpicK at the corner OF
Forieth and Beeway. and chuckle when
the foy cops rubbered past him.
/ "Squash-nosed or broken-nosed crooks
used to be as common as raids nova
4 days on old The Aliens Sixth avenue
place, but you don't see many Of them
any more. There's Philadelphia face
doctor who makes a specially OF
Strengthening noses and the crooks all
know his address and go to him when
they need his work.
"But they never do that until after
they've been mugged with their broken
noses. After their portraits are on file,
however, they hike down to the nose
fixer in Dreamtown, and when he gets
through with them they are able to
flash their new Greek or Roman pro-
files, sometimes for years before they
Iare nailed. s
1.-THE worst hard luck story / know of
lis that of porch climber with a hippo
nose who paid $500 to the Philadelphia
remapper for an Athenian proboscis and
then had it spread all over his face
again, by the fist of night Waterman
lust three days after he had returned
from the next Thursday town on
the SchuylkilI.
i Not many months ago stool pigeon
4 gave away to the Office check-kiter
4 for whom several warrants were out In
New York, and who would never have
been corralled If the stool pigeon hadn't
come to the front, 50 scientific was the
makeup Of the scratcher Of the bae
paper, who had been mugged a dozen
4 times,
This crook jumped New York more
than two years ago, when the fire un-
/ der him began to throw out too many
sparks, but of course he couldn't stay
i away. He knew, however, that he'd gel
the grab as soon as he hit the New Yorl
cobblestones If he didn't do a lot Of fix
i ing.
Il TtlG was a
slender man, with bald head and {
rather narrow, smooth-shaven face,
Well, when we brought him in after the
stool pigeon had clucked on him he
looked like brownie.
He wore one Of those pneumatic
Estomachs affected by the knockabout
i variety stage comedians, and his clothes
were neatly tailored around this alder
manic construction. He wore on his
/ bald head good brown wig. He had
/ pumped with needle under the skin Of
his face preparation, which sweels the
fash Of the face without damaging the
4 hide very much, sothat his inflated
cheeks were good match for his Fal-
staffian superstructure,
''He made very interesting looking
pudge, all right, and when he was
brought in he might have been taken by
even the old hands as q member Of the
jolly Fat Mems club who had come
down to headquarters to complain about
his bank roll being copied by a satchel
Isqueezer. When he was unravelled,
however, he was the same old Jack that
we had been wanting, except for the
needle puffed jowls, and he's making
brushes now up the river. New York
Sun. ~ .E<.E ~ w. st H."