The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Englishman Who Brings Back
Dead Outdone by New
York Detective.
BUILDS COMPLETE MODEL
With Only Skull to Begin on
Minute Observer Recon-
structs Young Woman.
BY JULIA MCCARTHY.

SiASS W Iiic Ddil ilHS pIOuicHiS VI
what lies beyond the grave, he
has regarded. as a most valuable
means of materializing the spirit
of departed ones. This white
tenuous substance comes from the
mediums body, flows into some
what human form, taking on a
putty-like semblance of life.
He Does 1t in Real Life.
But practical putty.like plastiline.
not the spooky ectoplasm, is what
one shrewd New York detective.
Capt. Grant Williams, has used TO
bring back from the dead SEM
blance of poor Lillian White. victim
of the Haversack mountain murder
mystery.
Captain Williams is an expert OF
Identification. He established and
was connected for years with the
bureau of Identification Of the police
force of this city.
/ sought out Grant Williams to
hear from this resourceful sleuth
himself the story of how he pro-
ceeded to build ufe-like head with
nothing but a battered skull. a few
pounds of putty. and no notion of
what covering of flesh and blood the
bony structure wore before death
stripped it indecently.
Did Not See Photo.
Not until after the reconstructed
head of Lillian White was completed
did Captain Williams see a photo
graph of the strangely slain girl.
But he made II 50 remarkably true
to life that the Identification of the
body as that Of the murdered girl
of the mountain is regarded as COM
plete.
THE first step in such reconstruc-
tion is the sterilizing of the skull of
the dead person by a solution OF
formaldehyde." he explained. This
process kills all germs.
"A neck must then be made. We
used a piece of curtain pole planed
down to fit the 'foramen magnum.
the opening through which the
spinal column joins the skull. This
is wedged in. .'"
Under the mastoid processes.
those bony structures, whose promi-
nence can be felt behind the ears,
we placed two tubes to support the
head and lend it an extra rigidity on
Its base. We used wireless tube in
this instance and with them inside
the mastoids the head becomes im-
movable.
w lNil (" biiopic putty
like substance, we cover the skull
half an inch thick, rubbing it down
and patting it with fingertips. Care
fully following the contours of the
bone, we slowly build the features"
How do. we know what sort of
eyes, nose and mouth the victim
had?" the expert repeated after my
question, and I-or we-must ex-
plain that Mr.. Williams is addicted
to the use of the modest editorial
we
Moses are divided into four classes
straight. convex, concaVe and
hook. The curve or direction OF the
nasal bone as II comes out from the
forehead determines this features
character. Feeling the cartilage ~
IL Joins the bone, one notes a straight
direction or a decidedly dish effect
or a gradual slanting down and in as
in the case of the convex nose, or
great curve which marks the hook
type"
Noses Length Shown.
This also decides for us what the
end of the nose will be like and the
length of it. A turned. or pug nose
will be apt to have a thick end. The
slightly curved down will have a
thin one.
"Often we have to speculate little
about whether the end Is to be bul.
bous or thin, for the whole face must
be considered. Even in a homely
countenance there is certain pro-
portion and harmony Of the whole.
THE length of the nose from the
bridge to the base of the nostrils js
determined by the roots of the teeth.
Where they begin the nose ends.
Feel at the base Of your own nose
and there you will touch the roots
of your teeth.
How do we know whether eyes
are bulging or deepset in the skull?
We hold a pencil slantwise against
the eyesocket down to the check
bone. Try this. II leaves about
enough room for the evclashes to
brush against II. Allowing n slight
distance back for the thickness Of
the upper eyeltd we figure the top
of the eycball will come under the
top of the lid. and there you are.
ITO locate the pupils of the eyes
we hold a pencil horizontally across
the bridge of our own nose and II
covers up the pupils of the eyes.
"If the upper teeth protrude there
will be a full upper lip. II the lower
teeth recede. the lower lip will sink
back considerably; IL they are prom
inent below, then there will be full
lower lips. Holding a pencil from
the cheekbone down to the jawbone,
we allow n littlemore fullness on the
cheeks to press out on the pencil.
"In the case OF Lillian White there
was a tiny trace of one eyebrow
left which we fixed up on one side
with some cold cream. The eve.
brow always Begins at the inside
OF the eve socket agaisnt the upper
inner corner, II gradually turns
out and goes over the upper edge
of the socket, where it thins down
to its end"
Strange New York Village.
In going Of the story of the max.
ing of Lillian Whites head anew the
talk turned TO tie strange village of
Jetchworth. where there Is a colony
Of the feeble minded.
Here in the home OF those whose
faculties are dimmed, who spenk
without thinking. whose eyes do not
sec as much as the normal eyes, and