The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-14
''Portrait Parle" Latest Method of
 Finding Criminals

Ih1e portrait paT1e, or |SpedK1ne face," a new system of Identification at present i'm operation in London and Paris, is to be introduced in this coun- try. Police Commissioner Waldo is tc give the system a trial in New York city and hopes through it to build uI the greatest school for detectives in the world
 Captain Joseph Faurot, in charge of the criminal Identification of the New York police department, has fou several months past been abroad studying the system of facial fdentif- cation of the criminal and other pecu- MaIities of gait, speech and shape of head and hdE lips his cheeks, his ears, chin, forehead, eyebrows, marks, wrdn- kles and lines of the face.
 The Bertillon system of finger print idemtif fcation is already in use in the New York department.
 Captain F'aurot wila establish a school of detectives to study the new system. Bach detective wdll take about twenty lessons. Then while on the job if a detective runs across fn- ger prints he will take the impression to headquarters and find filed along with the prints there small gallery of photos of any thief walose finger the detective has. He studies the nose, mouth, face of his man, his physical peculiarities.
 Formerly he knew od9l ly generally that his man was five feet eight in- clles, of light complexion, sandy hair, weighed 160 pounds, was blue eyed, etc. Tine complete Identification was not made until arrest and arrahgn- ment.
 Noses under the new system are cIassed as 'tcave," rect and '.vexe,' 7 or concave. rectihnear and convex. Then there are other differences in nose, such as height. width, projec- tion and the base, which may be ele- vated, or snub, horizontal or depress- ed
 As to ears, Captain F'aurot says that no two ears are alike. Ears are clas- siffed as a sub division to noses and have many pecuMarftfeS. He said:
 '"The classification of the ears as a minor division of the nose group is as follows: Deq.' lobe descending or 'ear,' antitraglS concave or straight; 'vex,' pM convex, concave or .interme- dfate: t4ta,' the lobe traveaSed or not by a hollow; ssep,' lobe separated or not from the cheek, and .sa,' a pro jecting 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, i'm CMnatiOn 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 degree of frontal baldness is carefully noted. The presence or absence of am 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 given to him.
 'sUnder 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 cfin, which may be vertical, projecting or reced- -l ing. Mouths range from very small to very large. and the il1clination at the corners often offers a prominent characteristic.
 "After the cjty's detectives have learned the classification in the nose and ears college they will get the de- scriptiom of one of 200 portraits and will be told to pick out the picture of the man whom the description fits. Latter they will receive descriptions of men who are Go be captured in crowd. When a detective goes after a criminal with the verbal portrait description he will have a me{ntal picture Of the prominent characteris- tics of his man."