The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-15

ordinary gold mounting. and the, proud
 wearer of the ingenious set simply laughed in the faces of the searchers The teeth were examined time after time before the trick was at last dis covered. He could carry diamonda worth some thousands of pounds in them.
 One of the most extraordinary casez
 in which teeth have played a part oc-
 cured in 1874. A man named Goss,
 residing in. Baltimore, had insured his
 life in various companies for a very
 large sum- Goss was occupied in mak-
 ing samples of substitute for India rubber. and used to carry on his ex- periments in a lonely building. The
 people near were one day startled by
 an explosion in the cottage, and the place burst at once into a mass of flames When they were extinguished the remains Of q man were found by tne mortified searchers among the debris. Was 1t Goss? The insurance
 companies refused to pay. as Goss had
 magnihcent teeth. and the teeth of the dead man in the cottage were poor. and
 some even missing. and an action was brought against the companies by Goss' brother-in-law, Udderxook.
 Whiie the law proceedings were pro- gressing the remains of murdered man were found buried in wood, and sus- ptcfon fell upon Udderxook as the mur- oerer. The dead man was proved by the teeth to be Goss. whom Udderxook
 had represented as having been burned to death. |. The whole affair of the burning cot
 tage and the remains found in 1t had
 been arranged between Goss and his
 vfiiainous brother-in-law, who after
 ward killed Goss either to prevent the
 insurance companies finding him or to
 secure the whole of the spells for him.
 self. Who the man in the burned cot- tage was remains a mystery.
 "A particular lack of height and stiffness in the upper lip is a charac- teristic Of the vast majority of the inc misss Iaia S Of oHT PrsOnsS rsmaI5sd chsP ordinary offender is altogether weak in this direction. The professional and daring offender has just the reverse long upper lip. lips tightly compressed. mere straight line"
 Another peculiarly that has been noted in criminals Is the early appear the base of the nostriis tot to the a estreni. % ties of the lips. They appear in ordi- nary honest people in about one per- son out of i've before they reach 25
 it has ass Been qoSna Sa moTs sn 50 per cent of the convicts, under the age of 25 have already acquired them.
 The mouth Is the worst feature of women offenders. It Is misshapen coarse, sensual. or. in the case of female prisoners. is grim and harsh. It was noted in the otherwise beautiful Mar chfoness de Brinvilliers that while the ant expression. the mouth never ap- peared to relax--the lips seemed set. as if hiding some terrible secret behind them.
 Ann Cotton. one of the cruelest non- | sters of modern times, a woman who | poisoned twenty-seven persons for | Irififng insurance sums, had. on the 1 contrary. a month of which the lips l were parted, but they revealed teeth l set like those of a snarlfng dog. No woman prisoner of recent years has had | ! pretty mouth-sweet. and with mobile | ips. Even in the case of women l swInd1ers, very freduentlyS in other | respects liberal1y endowed with natural | feature is nothing like so | good as it is in the men. |