The evening world., 1911-05-13
They Remain the Same
From Cradle to Craze,
and There's No TWo Alike
-Digifol Hierogiyphics on
Soup Lddie and Glass
B0Wi Made Suspects Con-
Tess.

on the second floor of Police Head
quarters. surrounded by filing cabi-
nets and shelf records, there Is a
square jawed, square s~houldered,
square talking man Of medium height,
doing the sort Of magic which would
probably have got him burned at the
stake a few centuries back-Lieut.
Joseph A. Faurot. head OF the finger
print department OF the Bureau OF
Identification.
This Faurot Is NJ the sort OF a
man to go around advertising himself
or his accomplishments. To begin
with, he Is o busy. and in the sec
ond place he isn't that kind Of a per-
son lie Is a quiet. reserved man,
who looks less like the professional
detective than anybody you ever saw.
Also he can tell stories OF his work
which sound like pages torn from a
latter-day Arabian Nights Entertain
ment, only he doesn't tell them to
everybody who along.
lie was thrust into prominence-very
much against his own within the trial
of Caesar Celia. alias Charles Crispi. for
burglary, which mad a sensational ell
max the day before yesterday when the
prisoner, In the midst Of the taking OF
evidence, confessed his guilt and threw
himself on the mercy OF the Court.
Convicted by Fingers.
Faurot had convicted him solely by
means OF the finger prints which he left
on a window glass while breaking Into
an east side loft Building. He saw his
carefully pre- pared alibi going to pieces,
and TO save the kinsfolk who had sworn
for him he owned up.
Faurot blushed when Judge Rosalsky
comp!imented him on the skill and in
tel!igence he had shown as an expert
witness. lie blushed some more at
lineup" yesterday morning when Dep
uty Commissioner Dougherty praised
him before the two hundred assembled
plain clothes men. lie had hardly got
I through blush!ng when the writer OF
this saw him yesterday afternoon In his
room. where he sits most OF the day
with his beloved and priceless thumb
and finger prints-measuring them. sort
'"h 'He'h' counting the4r minute eoh-
formations 'hroush q microscope a"o
hhaHy indeS'nS them by a marvellous
system or classincation under whieh'
given the description OF one hand, he
can find the other. or. given one thumb.
he can infallibly pick out its mate from
among the thousands upon thousands
In his file.
In a way said Lieut.. Faurot. the
CONVICTION OF celia VIII DE a Dig help
10 the police IN their work hereafter.
we nave procured indictments before
the Grand Jury BY hnser print records
alone we have in times gone BY made
thousands or positive nominations oT
win men and dead by means OF them.
ana AT least twice IN recent years We
have been able to build up such certain
PROOF that the accused men pleaded
guilty In advance OF trial. But this
was the hrst time we mad ever offered
finger prints as evidence in open court
before a jury.
System Now Recognized.
Some o. us here felt dubious at nrst
about going this far because. for some
reason or some lack OF reason, there
are still a great many people who, in
spite OF the results hat have been at
tanned. persist IN regarding nngsr
print Notifications as something frlvo-
lous or uncertain. But from now on
We will feel sure that the average jury
can be made to realize that this Is the
only infallible and absolutely sure
method OF fixing human identity. II
you find finger prints where a crime ha.
been committed and those finger prints