Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
DOUBLE IDENTIFICATION
MADE BY FINGER PRINTS
Police of Both Cities Make Discoy.
cry at About the Same Time.
CHICAGO ASKS HIS SURRENDER
Charged With Killing Two Men
There Five Days Apart-Denies
He Was Ever in City.
Held in 5000 Bail.

Two identifications of James Smith from
photographs, measurements and f,nyer
prints today figured in the most startling
development in the mystery surrounding
the assault on Morris Bennett and tho
suspicion that Smith knows something
definite about the blow which killed VIII
liam H. Mickle nine days ago James
Smith is identified by the Washington
police as John Kabusta, wanted for two
murders in Chicago in 1908 Only two
hours after this news had startled tha
detectives in the case this morning "A
telegram from Nicholas Hunt inspector
of detectives. Chicago informed Mai. SyI-
vester that James Smiths photograph.
taken full face and profile last Tuesday.
had been positively identified as the por-
trait Of the 'can-rushing hoodlum" who
shot Louis Fullerdeau to death August
3. 1905, and who, only five days later.
beat John Grigel to death with a base
ball bat.
So positive are the police of two cities
thousand miles apart, and they lay SD
much weight on the telltale story of the
delicate markings Of fingers thumbs and
palms. recorded with five years differ
to separate the two events, that the Chi
cago police have asked to have Smith
sent west, while the Washingtr police
are positively smiling with the satisfac-
ton Of a man hunt which looks to them
to be at an end.
Say Finger Prints Can't Lie.
While Smith could have changed his
name from Kabusta to Krigel. 70 Kruger.
to Cabbage" and 10 other "monacres''
Of the underworld, the men who set sucf,
great store on the evidence OF the un-
changing delicate little curves which run
in waving lines upon finger tips ana
thumbs say that the same hand which
was imprinted forever in the Chicago Ber-
tillon records under the name kabusta is
the hand which was measured re. orded
and imprinted in the Bertillon room in
the basement of the District building last
Tuesday morning.
They claim that James Smith is John
kabusta, and although Smith denied to a
Star reporter today having been In Chi
cago at any time during his career, the
police Of this city are working with as
much surety as II their identification wers
one Of eyesight and not a card index sys-
TEN of odd-iooking curves and numerals.
The identification bureaus of the two
cities must have spotted the Kabusta evi-
dence at practically the same time this
morning. Detectives of every city have a
system of sending lookout" sheets to
every city in the country, and sometimes
all over the world, in the cases of crimes
committed by men they know and who
nave escaped. The John Kaousta Look
out" has been in detective headquarters
mere since 1yls. and bears q photograph
taken by the Chicago police.
Police Are Positive.
Working on the Identification cards and
old lookout circulars from other cities.
Policeman Kelly. detailed to clerical duty
in the Office Of Inspector Boardman, chief
OF the detective force, found the habueta
lookout" circular in the files of the Of
fice today. Instantly the entire head
quarters stan working on the case got
busy. Each one Is as familiar with
Smiths face as he is with his own like
ness In shaving glass, and there is not
a detective here who showed the slightest
doubt about the Identification.
AS an orficial expressed it:
There is not the slightest doubt that
the man We are holding under the name
Of James Smith is the man whose meas.
urements appear on that circular
Chicago Inspectors Telegram.
AS sure as the police were on Kel. >
discovery, they We're made doubly sure
when, two hours later. the following tele-
gram to Mai. Sylves.er was received:
Picture OF James II. Smith, 4O12 posi-
lively identified rs Frank Kabusta, Want-
ed here on two charges Of murder. Can
have him? Nicholas Hunt, inspector Of
detectives, Chicago"
Although the Chicago circular refers to
Kabusta as John" and the telegram
from Inspector Hunt as Frank" The
local police Say that is merely a clerical
error, probably In the writing of the tele-
gram.
There isn't much chance OF Smith going
to Chicago right away, however.
Meantime. according to the kabusta
lookout the man was In Pontiac reforma-
tory for a time. His record there has
been requested by telegraph
The Chicago circular. which contains
likenesses of the alleged murderer show
ing him as appearing several years
younger, than Smith now appears. is
worded as follows:
The Reward Circular.
$500 REWARD.
John kabusta. alias Krigel, alias kru.
ger, alias Cabbage, Polish American.
years of age. five feet -four.