Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-20

over the crisis which now faces rail He felt as if his body were swaylng but the clear. searching eyes SO close to his seemed to hold him to his heels
 Suddenly the eyes of the expert were withdrawn, and Montgomery regained control cf his senses. He saw the man back at Ms desk and writing. He was putting into the record the color of the prisoners eyes. a description of their shape and of whatever pecullariues he had discovered in them.
 In his weak and exhausted condition Montgomery was easily bewildercd. He was in a state of mild stupefaction as the man with the measuring instru- ments again began work. Soon the experts voice was droning out more measurements. The length of the nose at the bridge, it's projection at the high est point and at the nostrils, the height and width and pecullariues of the fore head, the shape Of the chin. the nature of the setting and filling of the teeth. their number and condition, the shape of the lobe of the right ear and its bor-
  dition were all placed in the record that would make James Montgomery marked man and easy police prey for the rest Of his life
 Kearney unlocked the handcuffs. "Take of your clothes" he ordered.
 The naked lad was placed on the scales and his weight taken. The left foot and the little finger of the left hand were measured Tho two experts then examined every square inch of the prisoners body and made note of every mark, mole, scar and cutaneOus peculiarity.
 As Montgomery feebly struggled back into his home fashioned under wear and poorly fitting suit of clothes the Berdllon men studied him careful ly and keenly, as if they were two con- noisseurs at a county fair passing upon an especially interesting steer. They were seeking material to hll in that part of the record carrying the title line "Peculiarities of Habit and Action"
 They conferred in whispers and de- cided that the prisoner belonged to the "dopey" class. He was of good frame, but appeared listless and weak. They were not medical men. and they could not know that malnutritiOn was the cause of the lads feebleness and that misery of soul had sent his manhood reellng oyer the ropes
 The prisoner was led to a desk on which was a long. white form ruled Into twelve rectangles A Bertuon man caught his wrists and pressed his fingers down upon marble slab coy cred with printers ink The prints of an the fingers of each hand were made i'm the record, and then prints of the first joints of the four fingers were made in other rectangles. A pen was handed the prisoner and he was made Co sign his name to the sheet of paper As he lifted the pen from the paper the Bertillon man grasped his right fore finger and made a separate record Of it just under the name.
 The police mo longer depended on the name or facial characteristics as a means Of identifying the prisoner The name James Montgomery meant little
  islands" parabolas and breaks" showing in the finger prints i'm that record forever tagged their man. He might grow old and feeble and SO change his appearance that even his own brother would know him not, but the finger prints would never change. and no other human born on earth would have the same little circles in the skin which nature so wonderfully and strangely twists in separate de signs for each of the human species.
 The police record of James Mont gomery went into the files and his pie tures into the gallery of roeues. kearney took his man back to the wheezy elevator and below to the main floor. A short flight of winding stairs took them to the basement and a little prison known as "the harrel' This cramped and dark place would hold Montgomery until he was arraigned before a magistrate and the slow proc ess of marching through the courts to prison or liberty was begun Here, be- heath the level of the street. he could send no word to lawyer or friend, and he was as far removed from the say ing benefits of the habeas corpus as if Inc were existing before the signing Of Magma Charta.
 Pending his arraignment in court this citizen of the United States was without one single trace of considera- ton by the law which was written for hls protection.
 lt was noon the next morning when Montgomery groped about his little black cell and found an iron shelf