Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-30
NEW YORK HAS A
REAL SCIENTIFIC
DETECTIVE
Man who Caught Hans
Schmidt Believed to Be th=
Most Skillful Criminal
Hunter in the Nation.

In the Interesting People" depart
ment Ia tho November American
Magazine appears an entertaining ac-
count of Joseph \. Farout chief of
the New YORK city detective force,
and q scientific hunter of criminals.
,'aurut IL the detective who recently
caught Hans schmidt, the New YORK.
priest who murdered a girl. dismem-
berod her body, and threw the parts
into the Hudson river. Following IL
an extract from the article
For the nrst tlmo In its history
the New York detective force found
itself with real scientific criminal
hunter as It's chief when Detective
Captain Joseph a. Fqurot was made
acting Inspector during the graft rev
Citations which came ON the heels of
the murder OF the gambler Rosenthal
In days gone by the detective arm
OF the citys police system depended
on such mes 40 W. r. sheridan, the
Man with the Camera Eye. as he
was called, To Identify crooks. Sher-
idnn had Il wonderful eye and freak
memory Of faces but there are few
men with such unusual qualifications
and tho underworld has trcmcn-
dous population that seems To grow
Twin each generation.
"Faurot u handsome, soft-spoken
man. is the American BCrtllNon. He
has taught New Works. seven hundred
ard more detectives how to pick "a
fnce out OF the crowd hy modern,
scientific methods The bull as the
New York detective ig known To the
crooks. does not depend upon pho-
tograph. n the crook he 81 after has
ever been in the hnndn Of Faurots
hcaduunrtcrs- his rcrtlllion rec
ord viii show that he has one of three
| kinds of human nose 'veye, rect, or
cave. as Bertillion classified them 70
ne has a cOucavc nose. say, then his
| search IS confined 90 faces showing
that particular form Of feature All
/ the others are eliminated. Then there
are only four kinds oi human ears
| the triangular. oval, square ana
round Say his crook has an oNat
ear. This eliminates all those VINO
have ears of the 9th sort ana brings
/ his field down TO those who have
conceive noses ana oval ears. by TINS
wedding out process the Bcrtilliun de-
| tcctive has put aside the thousands
/ who have any Of the combinations OF
ear and nose that might be made WIN
| these seven types Of features save
| Tho one combination of concave nos'
| and oval ear. " one OF Faurot
scientifically taught men lands sus'
poet he can check up on him surely
The human face Is divided INC
/ twenty seven sections and IN eacf
section the Rortillion chart viii show
It's pocniiarities. The process o.
elimination will gradually exclude
every human being but this one man
using the calculus OF probabilities
Finally nature herself comes to th'
aid of the detective with the nnEe
prints. for she has given to such o
us one certain individual stamp tina
never changes and that cannot %
lchanged tho rings, Islands whori
and parabolac 60 be found ON the in
liner cuticio ~ the digits.
chatting with him one day IN m
Identification bureau, the writer wh'
has had years of experience az
criminal reporter. found that fanr",
had taken hls finger prints surrepi'
tiously. The interviewer had place.