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

Physical PseulIsrifIes - Cross Eyes
Strengthened, Broken Noses Repaired,
Tattoo Removed-A PhiIadeIphia SPEC
oiaIty.
<tIve been bounding for something
like quarter of century now and
have covered trails all the way from
schenectady to Shanghai, and yet I've
never seen any of those whiskers-and-
goggles, wig and-back- hump DISCUSSES
of the sort that are employed upon the
slightest occasion by the hist-Eureka,
llightnng-ch change sleuths of the Hearth
stone Pal species" said veteran detec-
tive of the headquarters staff. And
lit's the same with all of the headquar-
tiers detectives. They don't know what
makeup box looks like.
It's the crooks themselves who do
the Disgusting, but even they don't go
in for such effects as pink siders and
grease paint wrinkles of the Gaspard-
the-Miser kind. The toppy crooks, men
and women. of the present day spend a
good deal of their time in trying to get
6liOlll IilCllR l55uGof SdICIy
lgings and their Bertillons. IA
They don't have any truck with the
foolish junk forming the DISCUSSES COM
monty described in the detective yarns.
They go in Instead for the eradication
or covering up Of their most pronounced
characteristic of feature, shape, gait or
manner. Ia
| Every crook put through the mug
Iging process and after that Bertilloned
has some popularity that stands out-a
lquaint or stare, a sidewise nose or a
hooked one, Happy ears, a broken finger,
ragged teeth or unusually good ones, a
characteristic walk or way of using the
hands; some sort of kink whereby he, is
marked and spotted by the headquar-
tiers men who look him over.
'sAs it is the habit of the detectives to
lay particular, almost exclusive. stress
upon these pecularities in Identifying
lcrooks, the crooks go to all sorts of
trouble and expense to effect a shift in
the giveaway peouliarity. / know of a
sparkgrafter-he's now doing a four
Speaker in Sing Sing for working lit
tie game with the sleepy drops-Who
went all the way to Japan to get him
self fixed out.
i Eight or ten years ago this gem
grafter stood for a pinch in Chicago,
lalong with four other fellows with
whom he was working. He squealed,
and was turned loose for passing evil
dence to the state. The other four got
two spaces each. .z.4
| THE first thing they did when they
were let out of Joliet was to hun up
their former pal who had peached on
them, not to kill him, but to brand him.
They got him down in New Orleans, put
him out, threw him into a hack and
idrove him to plant that they had fix
led Then one of them tattooed "a big
blue s. for sSquealer,' on the peacher' s
fright cheek, and he was turned loose
with that mark on him.
| He'd already been mugged several
times in New York. He kept the IS
covered up with a kind Of. fiesh-tinted
grease paint of a kind that actors use.
But the next time he was snagged in
New York he was kept in his stall for a
couple of days before being remugged,
and by that time the grease paint had
worn off the s. and of course the brand
went into the picture.
1 THE spark CRATER was turned loose
latter being ottogfsafs Pied with his
brand, there being no evidence against
him sufficient to convict. He in1rnedi-
lately set about to get rid of that big
tattoo mark
/ Now, the Bertilloned crooks have 4
way of getting ride tattoo marks on
their arms and other covered parts of
their bodies, but this plan isn't feasible
/ In removing tattoo marks from the face.
They dip toothpicks in milk and pick
laway at the tattoo marks until they
soak up the ink When the prickings
of the toothpicks heal the ink has dis
appeared, but the scar from the tooth
| picks is always left.
st wouldn't have done for the crook
with the 81 brand on his cheek to use
the milk and toothpiek scheme on his
face, for that would only have left a
lbig s. scar instead of the blue s. on
his face. The crook found out that
Japanese tattoo artists have a scientific
plan for removing tattoo marks without
leaving the slightest scar, and he went
all the way to Japan to have the job
idone.
| He came back with that right side of
his face as clean as the other side, and,
as he was a man with no other distin-
gushing personal characteristic, he
worked in and around New York FOR
several years without any of the head
quarters men spottig him They didn't,
in fact, spot him when he got his last
ifour-specker for the knockout drops
frameup until he was stripped and look
ed over for Bertillon comparison after
| his arrest. s@s
| Then they found certain physical
characteristics that identified him with
his Bertillon chart that was already on
| file. and then they picked out his sew
eraI photographs from the mug depart
ment and recognized him easily. They
had to put the right side of his face un-
der strong glass before they were
able to trace the IS from which the Jap
had removed the. ink without leaving
any visible scar. +.
"These face changers that call them
selves dermatologists are Of great as
| sistance to the crooks who start out to
make the shift in their looks. The big
| gest and most hopeless looking cauli-
flower ear that ever saw was worn for
a dozen years by leather worker, a
iCockney, who's now doing long space
/ in Portland prison. England, for lip-
work at the English fairs.
"Old Joe Goss, the one-time champion
pug, who died in poverty on the Bow
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