Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-11

doned by Gov ~Fffer In 1893 he robbed
Chapin's jewelrr store, Denver. securing
1900 worth Of diamonds. He jumped his
bonds. In this sample story of the cards 1t is
further disclosa63 that in September, 1894,
Grove was sentenced, under the name OF
| Frank Roberts,, to three months in the
later he was given three years in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary for holding up a train on
the c.. B. and Q-s Soon after his term was
up ne was wa aTrssted in st. Louis upon the
away from the officers. jumped into the
buggy of sewing machine agent threw
the latter out. drove into a blind alley and
was s captured blurred For this days work he re-
put was pardoned within fourth of that
!ime. AT Aurora. ILL.,, he was arrested in
IVO on the charge Of holding up Chicago
and Northwestern train, from which he is
supposed to have secured sos. 600 He was
| last heard of when he kidnapped Eddie Cud-
any obtaining $25, COO ransom from the lat
| reward has been offered for him. but he ha 3
never peen apprehended, although some
uays ago there was report that his cap-
s lure was nearly effected in Missouri In
| 1alnng together in the classification Of
measurements. tell of a succession of Grim
inaI performances enacted under different
Boy Thief's Evolution.
AN OBJECT lesson In criminal evolution is
Aouno III series of six cards representing
iao VINO mas been in the tolls continuously
SINCE ne was seventeen years old His
oi1liiinai record covers only the past four
years, curing which time he has grown
from bad to worse and youth to manhood
spontaneously. His physical growth 10
Traced upon the cards his head length
having gradually increased from III to 1874
e &c IN and his head width from IA
h ~ -. eentimeters, by gradual stages. His
aCa1 frOy
ms BOY is a shrewd diamond thief and
pickpocket. Since October, 1899, he has
peen arrested. SUCCESSFULLY in Boston, New
H Holk' Atlantc City. Washington. st. Louis
NeW orleans, Louisville, Buffalo and De-
troit, where he is now held for larceny
from the person. His cards bear the names
george T Iwlnkler, Harry Glatt, milwaukee
Mo, Harry. Gluck, Thomas Jones and
mo anolnas M. Burns, under which name he is
now being held in Detroit. This unfortu-
nate served six months in New York when
seventeen years DID, ninety days in Atlantic
10y tne same year and one year at the
Ollio penltentlary when only twenty. He
was hned S25 at New Orleans when nine
teen. 1t is stated that when about eighteen
ne owned a saloon in Cleveland and did a
Iushlng business under the name of Thomas
Jones. Ih1s youthful crook almost always
gives MS occupation as "jockey' He has
stated his birthplace as New York San
francisco and Cleveland In spite of the
TACT mat his measurements had increased
WIN each new Bertillon card made out for
MIN a note on each card stating that he
had a sailor boy and anchor tattooed unon
nus arm aided in the grouping of his cards
together and tracing of his continuous rec
ord.
Dead criminals offer the most vexed
p!Upleins When an unknown crook is
Killed In any of the subscribing cities his
corpse is photographed and Bertillonized
superintendent Evans showed me a ghast-
ly card illutrating difficult Identification
rar1I CHI mod
what renamed of mysterious man who
In a West Side Chicago saloon attempted
TO hold up the bartender, but who was
shot and at the same time so badly man
gled by Newfoundland dog belonging to
the resort that Identification seemed inn
possible But a Bertllon operative made
at the morgue the customary photographs
and measurements. BY their aid TIE man
was readily identified as bold crook who
had just served six years in Canyon CITY,
Col, and who had previously served also
in Joliet
Women the Dread Factors.
Women crooks are dreaded more than
men by Bertillon operatives. A Buffalo
operative surrendered to one woman in
1899. Upon her card made out at the time
is written, This woman refused to be
measured" thick stack of this wo-
mans cards are. however, on file in the
bureau and were her name used as an
index they would be scattered in a dozen
different drawers. : A striking proportion of
the womens cards bear under the head
Ing Occupation" the frank statement
that they are courtesans
Some of. the grimaces which women
crooks make while their physiognomies
are being perpetuated are grotesque in the
extreme. They imagine that they are
cheating the identiders, little realizing
what an insignificant factor in their iden-
tification the photograph is. Various dis
guises worn into the police photo
graph galleries. One card bears the pic
ture of a criminal wearing a false nose;
another shows a young man with his hair
growing down to his waist. One showing
a man with a bald top head is grouped
alongside a later portrait of the same man
with a full growth of hair. What this
mans peculiar hair tonic was is not re-
corded.
Violence is depicted in many of these
photographs. Some subjects are being
held by the hair of their heads clutched
in the powerful palms of officers of the
law. The outstretched arms of one are
shackled to the gratings of two cell win
dows.
Uncle Sans Post Office Department. now
under investigation. is a recent subscriber
to the new bureau. The inspection divi-
sion of the department now maintains a
Bertillon system of it's own.
Major Richard Sylvester Superintendent
of the Washington police force. and
president of the National Association of
Chiefs of Police, is the founder of the bu-
reau.