The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-15
LIPS AND TEETH
OF CRIMINALS HAVE ruRNrsurn
 DETECTIVES WITH CLUES.

OF CRIMINALS HAVE FURNISHED DETECTIVES WITH CLUES. | Always To Be Depended On. Mus-
 tache And Beards As Disxuises. Mouth Frequestly worst Feat l urc of Offenders.
 |
 Nature has gifted the ordinary male | criminal with very effective dis | guise as regards his mouth and the I lower part of his face in the mustache
 and beard. and he takes full advantage
 of it The transformations of the pre- | fessional wrongdoer's lower counte-
 nance are often mayvslious. says the | wanted" people. unless they are wo- l men, are seldom given a line in po- lice descriptions. and instead we find: | 'Generally wears a heavy brown mus tache," "affects dropping mustache." l" full dark beard" or "mustache and whiskers.'
 By shaving or by allowing the hair on his face to grow the sought for I individual used once to be able to se- | cure a considerable safety. from rec l oEnition, but it affords him little now. The dstective's scientifically trained 1, eyes have learned to study just those parts of the face which ahe most per-
 manent. and which no Ingenuity can
 alter.
 "The mouth and the parts around it
 are commonly supposed by insxper- fenced criminals to afford them the
 most excellent facilities for cheating us" said williamson, the head of Scotland Yard. That Is what often makes the foolish fellows actually throw away their money in purchas- Ing false mustches and boards and
 things. If you doubt the effect of
 wearing false mustache buy one.and
 go out in 1t and see the result. You
 will discover 1t very quickly. 1t will
 attract attention to you very disagree
 ably"
 Lefroy, when he fled and the DO
 lice were hunting for him for the
 murder of MT. Gold was found when
 captured to have false mustache in
 his possession.
 The latest attempted disguise by
 means of false mustache was the idea of a woman who transformed her. self into man while travelling in an empty railway carriage. she hav- ing previously supplied herself with the necessary male clothes. In or- der that the disguise should be conn l piete she put on . little black mus- tache. She decided to throw of pos- sible pursuers. to alight at a station | considerably la advance of that to | which she had taken a ticket. and | while explaining to the ticket collect | or how 1t was she had determined te | break her journey there the mus tache. suddenly fell off. It was 2 feav. nerves. who did not naturally. forget l to mention the extraordinary passenger \ to all he met. The lady was in GUS | tody almost immediately.
 Where the criminals mouth is ob- servable it is frequently a remarkable feature. Deeming's mouth saved the | <.ff ff.as Ha hnA artr trad dawn as q victim His manners were peculiarly suave and calculated to im- press a woman fayorably, 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 a 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 a terrible one. But he was anything but beautiful. and he used to express his wonder at men who hid their faces behind hair."
 His mouth looked like a hideous steel trap" declared areporter who at- tended the trial of Dumoilard. the FT40Cn his wife killed some twenty poor girls seeking situations for the sake of their petty belongings. It was a remarkable mouth, and when Dumoliard spoke it | seemed more terrible than when 1t was closed, though the voice was smooth. and even agreeable. Tt was a mouth whose hitting place seems to be biting the sawdust of M. Deib1er's head bas- ket," said the correspondent. l' \ What Is the matter with the mans mouth?" inquired a perplexed London one day of a prisoner brought before him.
 "It's nerves, your worship" declared the accused, Tt will keep twitching. can't keep it still"
 The magistrate remanded him, ex- pressing the hope that the medical at- tendant~ in the prison might be able to 1 do something for his relief. A suspis sious detective fin court had consider able doubt respecting the affliction. and he was cruel enough to bring an expert 1 casion of the prisoners next appear ance. His suspicious were fully justi- led. The prison doctor had apparently lone the poor fellow no good. for his , lips worked as energetically as ever. He was sending messages to his pals Tn court. quite oblivious of the fact that III his words were being taken down in short hand. The dodge played on him ed to the recovery of some hundreds of pounds worth of jeweiry that the invalid" had misappropriated.
 Lip language has been well studied 'ince then, and no criminal not hope Lt essly behind the times would rely on | ts secrecy today. IL is strange that lip reading appears to have been in use lmong the professional criminal classes years before scientific people thought f 'f making use of 1t as a medium of 2 with the deaf and 4 lumb. The wonderful manner in which | criminals can communicate with one q mother my means of the lip move nents is we'll known. 4
 Was this piece of bread and butter , bitten by man or a woman?" was the [ question which Q dental expert was . alled upon to decide some years ago f O assist in the elucidation of a murder ! mystery. An old lady named Weston, T gho had lived by herself. had been ound dead in her sitting room. The { 'iace had been robbed-the old lady f vas supposed to be a miser and to { lave hidden hoards in cupboards and I 'laces-and she had evidently been lone to death by some one who had ( alled upon her, and whom she had T reated as a friend. Upon the table in 1 he room were the tea things and two { Hates. on one of which was a half { onsumed piece of bread and butter. The piece which had been bitten by the I 'isitor was bounced on by the detec- 1 ives called in. The expert declared hat the bread and butter had haan | !