The evening world., 1913-09-15
IS QUIET AND. MODEST
Rose From Stenographer and
Photographer to Head of
liz His Department.

10 the bss. mind ever In control Of
Headquarters by his solution o. the
Hudson River mystery at a time when
there seemed not once chance In ten
thousand that the crime represented
by the several fragments Of a woman q
body that lay more than a week uni
IDENTIFIED In the Hoboken Morgue would
ever bs cleared.
To-day Inspector Faurot proves him.
self character In real life equal to
the famous creations Of Gaboriau and
Edgar Allan Poe.
No one would take this Joseph Faurot
FOR the detective he Is. lie might pass
casual scrutiny as plain stenog.
rapher. maybe-which he is--or q pho.
tosrapher-which he is also---or any
one OF thousand types OF mediocre
business man such as one would SEQ
on broadway at the noon hour. Below
average height stocky and muscular
In build. with q round face. almost
chubby. and a well shaped, though not
distinguished head. Faurot is TO all
outward appearances merely q very
ordinary individual.
NEVER WORKED THIRD DEGREE
ON PRISONER.
he speaks IN . low, ordinary voice.
very methodlcally and with hardly any
emphasis He has none Of the profess
ssonal bullying a"J braying about him
that people who read books and see
plays about the Police Inspector are led
to believe mist be necessary character
ist.cs Of one IN such Office. lie has
never faced suspect In the aspect O;
tiger and subjected him to the ments. .
assassination Of the third degree. Fau.
rot simply 10 not constituted % to do.
Modeety and unoptrusiveness app.at
to DO the strongest elements Of the
mans character. He never grab. of
the Story for thing done by a subordi.
hate such as some OF his predecessors
In the Detective Bureau ch!efshIp have
been known to do. II praised, Inspec;o
Faurot gives evidences Of embarrass-
ment and sharp mental discomfort,
Faurot began Efe as an Infantry ma n
In the regular army. He was honorary
DISCHARGED seventeen years ego. and
Joined the Police Department Dec. J.
1886 lie was but a short time on patrol,
being taken TO Headquarters In 1897 as
stenographer In the Office OF the police
surgeon.
In the time OF Commissioner McAdoo.
when Inspector Steve OBren was al
;he head OF the Detective Bureau. the
unknown young stenographer was found
to have once been . professional pho.
tographer and to have an expert knoWl.
edge OF the art. He was consequently
transferred to the Detective Bureau as
head photographer for the Rogues' Gal.
ery. At this work he did well. lie
also went beyond the duties Of his Once
and In ofr hours threw himself into the
study of the then new Bertll!on science
OF police Identification.
GENT ABROAD TO STUDY eER.
TiLLoN METHODS.
McAdoO discovered that the quiet
young fellow In the Rogues' Gallery
knew . great deal more about the new
system of thief catching than anybody
else. and In 1901 he sent Faurot abroad
20 study At hrst hand the real inside OF
the then fresh and untried idea. When
he came back he brought with him the
valuable scheme which was then made
. part Of the regime at adquartsr,
and now. ~ the Bureau Of Identinca ton,
plays 20 great q part In the work Of ap-
pretending criminals.
Faurot was later put In charge Of the
expanding Bureau OF identification. He
conscientiously went to work with his
slIdss and his tabulating Of fngerprints
and schedules Of ears and eyes and
noses. In 1911 Commissioner Waldo
again sent him to France TO learn the
latest things In Bertillon develop
ment--ths portrait parle." or method
OF analysing and impressing upon the
mind the features OF tho cr!mlna!
FaurQt meanwhile. had been promoted
20 a captalncy on May %. 1911.
With Faurot's return from his sec