The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10

ence, the celebrated bank robber, arrested
in New Orleans in 1895. is wired to Mon
treal. Superintendent Evans then awaits re-
ceipt OF the new Bertillon card made by the
operatives Of Montreal. As last resort he
compares the photographs. Although the
said Clarence is portrayed with such a
wealth of whiskers as would make Kan
sas populist turn to the emerald hue of envy,
a certain twinkle in his eye confirms the
suspicion that he is the aforesaid Foxy"
with priestly vtsage, shaver clean. This
clinches the identity of the man with the
wealth of names, but dearth of head
lengths.
Were the photographs relied upon pri-
marfly Superintendent Evans's task would
be hard one. This he illustrated to me by
taking from the drawers various groups of
cards, each representing the same crook. In
many cases there was no shade Of resemb-
lance which the eye would note unless fore
armed with the suspicion given by the other
data upon the cards.
TRACING PAT GROVE.
Three cards of the famous Pat Grove.
alias Frank Roberts," alias John Wilson
still sought by the Omaha police for the
Cudahy kidnaping-were shown to me. These
contain Pats criminal history in nutshell.
In 1890. while engaged in conversation with
a woman in the doorway of Chicago re-
sort. he tore pair of 500 earrings from her
ears. She screamed, and he then shot her
through the arm. Her cries attracted two
detectives, one of whom was shot by Grove
one-half inch above the heart and the other
through the mouth. For this nights work
he was sentenced to term of seven years
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later he was pardoned by Governor Fifer. In
1893 he robbed Chapin's jewelry store. Den
yer. securing $1,000 worth of diamonds. He
jumped his bonds. In this sample story of
the cards it is further disclosed that in Sep
TENDER, 1894, Grove was sentenced, under
the name of Frank Roberts, to three
months in the Milwaukee house of correc-
ton. A year later he was given three years
in the Missouri penitentiary for holding up
train on the c., B. & Q. Soon after his
term was up he was arrested in st. Louis
upon the charge of giving '.short change"
but broke away from the officers, jumped
into the buggy of sewing machine agent,
threw the latter out, drove into blind al
ley and was captured. For this days work
he received sixteen months in the work.
house. but was pardoned within fourth of
that time. At Aurora, ILL.,, he was arrested
in 1900 on the charge of holding up Chi
cago & Northwestern train. from which he
is supposed to have secured $4,000. He was
last heard of when he kidnapped Eddie Cud
ahy, obtaining $4,000 ransom from the lat
ter's father. Since then much as $4,000
reward has been offered for him, but he has
never been apprehended, although some
days ago there was a report that his cap
ture was nearly effected in Missouri. In such
cases the several cards of one man, falling
together in the classification of measure
ments, tell Of succession Of criminal per-
formances enacted under different names.
BOY THIEF'S EVOLUTION.
An object lesson in criminal evolution is
found in a series Of six cards representing
a lad who has been in the tolls continuously
since he was seventeen years old. His crimi-
nal record covers only the past four years.
during which time he has grown from bad
to and youth to manhood. cynchron-
ously. His physical growth Is traced upon
the cards. his head length gradually in
creased from 17.7 to 1874 centimeters and his
head width from 144 to 147 centimeters, by
gradual stages. His height has increased
from 81 to 6S4 inches.
pickpocket. Since October, 1899. he has been
arrested. successfully, in Boston, New York,
Atlantic City, Washington, st. Louis, New
Orleans, Louisville, Buffalo and Detroit
where he is now held for larceny from the
person. His cards bear the names George
Twinkler. Harry Glatt, milwaukee Kid"
Harry Gluck. Thomas Jones and Thomas
NJ. Burns, under which name he is now be-
ing held in Detroit. This unfortunate served
six months in New York when seventeen
years old, ninety days in Atlantic City the
same year and one year at the Ohio peniten-
tiary when only twenty. He was fined SIS at
New Orleans when nineteen. 1t is stated
that when about eighteen he owned a sa-
loon in Cleveland and did a rushing bust
ness under the name of Thomas Jones. This
youthful crook almost always gives his oc-
cupation as Jockey" He has stated his
birthplace New York, San Francisco and
measurements had increased with each new
Bertillon card made out for him, a note on
each card stating that he had sailor boy
and anchor tattooed upon his arm aided in
the grouping of his cards together and trac-
ing of his continuous record.
Dead criminals offer the most vexed prob
any of the subscribing cities his corpse is
photographed and Bertillonized. Superin-
tendent Evans showed me a CHASTITY card IL
Illustrating a difficult identification of his
category. The photograph showed what re-
NAMED of a 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 pangled by New
foundland dog belonging to the resort that
identification seemed impossible But a Ber-
tilon operative made, at the morgue, the
customary photographs and measurements.
BY their aid the man was readily identified
as a 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" A thick
stack of this womans 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 pro-
portion of the women's cards bear, under
the heading Occupation" the frank state
ment 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
identifiers. little realizing what an insignifi-
cant factor in their identification the pho