The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-29
TELL CROOKS BY
A new SYSTEM
The "SpeakiUg Face Is Here
From Paris.
SCHOOL FOR DETECTIVES.

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Latest Improvement of the BertiIon
Method, and Police Department Will
Try It.
The portrait parle, or speaking
face" n new system of identification
at present in operation in London and
| Paris, is to be introduced in this coun-
try. Police Commissioner Waldo is to
give the system trial in New York
city and hopes through it to build up
the greatest school for detectives in
the world.
Captain Joseph Faurot. in charge of
the criminal Identification of the New
York police department, has for sew
eral months past been abroad study
ing the system of facial Identification
of the criminal and other peculiarities
of gait, speech and shape of head and
his lips, his cheeks, his ears, chin, fore
head, eyebrows, marks, wrinkles and
lines of the face.
The Bertillon system of finger print
Identification is already in use in the
New York department
Captain Faurot will establish a
school of detectives to study the new
system. Each detective will take
about twenty lessons. Then while on
the job if a detective runs across fin
ger prints he will take the impression
to headquarters and find filed along
with the prints there a small gallery
of photos of any thief whose finger
prints happen to correspond to those
the detective has. He studies the nose,
mouth, face of his man, his physical
peculiarities
Formerly he knew only generally
that his man was five feet eight inches,
of light complexion, sandy hair.
weighed 160 pounds, was blue eyed,
etc. The complete Identification was
not made until arrest and arraignmcnt.
Noses under the new system are
chssed as "cave," rect and "vexe."
or concave, rectilinear and convex.
Then there are other differences in
nose, such as height, width, projection
and the base, which may be elevated
or snub, horizontal or depressed.
AS to ears, Captain Faurot says that
no two ears are alike. Ears are cassi-
fed as subdivision to noses and have
many peculiarities. He said:
THE classification of the ears as a
minor division of the nose group is as
follows: 'Deq.' lobe descending or
square; ear antitragus concave or
straight; 'veX, phi convex, concave or
intermediate; 'tra,' the lobe traversed
or not by hollow; sep lobe separat-
ed or not from the cheek, and 'sa,'
projecting antitragus.
"A division as to the height of the
individual follows. The forehead, be-
ing a prominent feature has it's place
In the new scheme. Height. width, in
clfnation and insertion of the hair are
all considered. The hair may come
down on the forehead round, square
or pointed, and if there is none the de-
gree of frontal badness is carefully
noted. The presence or absence of an
arch and wrinkles where the nose
Joins the forehead furnishes a detail
that a detective will have in mind
when hunting criminal whose salient
physical characteristics have been Civ
en- to him.
"Under the verbal portrait system
lips range from very small to very
great The extent of projection, the
showing of teeth and the peculiar
marks found on many lips all have
their share in the system, along with
the various features of the chin, which
may be vertical, projecting or reced-
ing. Mouths range from very small to
very large, and the inclination at the
corners often offers prominent char
acteristic.
"After the citys detectives have
learned the classification in the nose
and ears college they will get the de-
scription of one of 200 portraits and
will be told to pick out the picture of
the man whom the description fits.
Later they will receive descriptions
of men who are to be captured in a
crowd. When a detective goes after
a criminal with the verbal portrait de.
scription he will have a mental picture
of the prominent characteristics of his