The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-19
CRIMINALS LIPS AND TEETH
HATE FURNISHED DETECTIVES
 BEST or CLUES

Mustaches and Boards Make Only Fair
 Disguises-MOuth Frequently the
 Worst Feature of OGenders-Re-
 markabIe Instances From Scotland
 Yard Records.
 Nature has gifted the ordinary male criminal with a very effectual disguise las regards his mouth and the lower part of his face in the mustache and beard, and he takes full advantages .Of it. The transformations of the professional wrOngdOer's lower coun- tenance are often marvellous, says Lon don Answers. The mouths of wanted people, unless they are women, are sell dom given line in police descriptions, and instead we find:' Generally wears a heavy brown mustache, affects dropping mustache," full dark beard, <" or "mustache and .whiskers.''
 By shaving or by allowing the hair on his face to grow the sought for in- diVidual used once to be able to secure considerable safety from recognition, but it affords him little now. The de- tective's scientifically eyes have learned to study just those parts of the face which are most permanent, and which no ingenuity can alter.
 "The mouth and the parts around it are commonly supposed by inexperi- enced criminals to afford them the most excellent facilities for cheating oe Scotland Yard. That is what often makes the foolish fellows actually throw away their money in purchasing false mstaches and boards and things. If you doubt the effect of wearing a false mustache buy one, and go out in it and see the result. You will discover it very quickly. It will attract atten- tion to you very disagreeably.' Lefroy, when he fled and the police were hunting for him for the murder of MT. Gold, was found when captured to have false mustache in his pos ! session. ,., .,
 The latest Attempted disguise by means of a false mustache was the idea of a woman who transformed herself | into a man while travelling in an empty railway carriage, she having previous ly male clothes. In order that the dis guise should be complete she put on little black mustacne. She decided, to throw off possible pursuers, to alight at station considerably in advance
 of that to which she had taken a tick ] ct, and while explaining to the ticket collector how it was she had deter iY1o +a mustache suddenly fell off. It was a fearful shock to the railway officials nerves, who did not, naturally forget to mention the extraordinary passen- ger to all he met. The lady was in custody almost immediately.
 Where the criminals mouth is ob- servable it is frequently a remarkable feature. Deemings mouth saved the life of one of the women he had marked down as a victim. His manners were peculiarly suawe and calculated to inn press a woman favofably, but his mouth was "too terrible" she told the Court. and even when he was saying the most honeyed~ things to her she could not help looking at it. At last her suspicious obstinacy aroused Deem- ing's ire, and she had a glimpse of the fearful, straight mouth, set and grim with sternness that made her avoid him ever after. }
 Lefroy would have been wise to grow a mustache and beard to conceal his mouth. It was terrible one. But he was too coneeited to believe that it was anything but beautiful, and he used to express his wonder at men who ''hid their faces behind llair.''
 "His mouth looked like a hideous steel trap" declared a reporter who attended the trial of DumoIlard, the French peasant who with the aid of his wife killed some twenty poor girls seek Ting situations for the sake of their | petty belongings It was a renarkab ble mouth, and when Dumollard spoke it | seemed more terrible than when it was closed, though the voice was smooth, and even agreeable, Tt was mouth
 whose fitting place seemed to be biting | the sawdust. of M. Deibler's head bas- ket," said the correspondent.
 What is the matter with the mans n1outh?' inquired a perplexed London Magistrate one day of 8 prisoner l brought before him
 'Tt's nerves, your Worship" declared the accused. "It will keep twitching. I cant keep it still"
 The Magistrate remanded him, ex- pressing the hope that the medical att tendant in the prison might be able to do something for his relief. A suspic- l ious detective in court had considerable