Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-05-14
DISCOVERY Of
NEW SCIENCE To
SOLVE MURDERS
NY. Criminologist Finds Way
to Make Identification of
Death Victims Possible

! NEW YORK, May 81 Criminolo-
gists are acclaiming Captain Grant
! Williams as the discoverer of new
science that will check crime and
solve countless murder mysteries.
Williams is the scientific Sherlock
Holmes who just reconstructed muir
dered woman's skull so successfully
that her identity was disclosed.
This is the second time Williams
has taken Observation-Disclosures, uurec
Ognizable fragment of bone and built
clay around it until he had recon
structed perfect likeness Of the per
son to whom the bone belonged in life
Everybody hooted," Williams says,
''and called it luck. But l think the
second success has proved my theory
| sound. l hold that a skull can be re-
constructed so faithfully simply by fol
lowing the contour of bones, that iden
LITIGATION is certain"
! A month after the body OF an uni
Identified woman was found on Hav-
erStraw Mountain, N. j., williams re-
built the face and head without even
knowing the names of missing girls
the police were trying to trace. A
woman identified the clay-covered
skull as a likeness of her missing sis
ter, Lillian White.
His First Feat
Williams, retired policeman, six
years ago rebuilt the skull of the I'M
identified victim of a Brooklyn muir
der mystery. The murdered man was
proved to be Domoniek Larossa. The
reconstructed skull was so lifelike
| that the man who made the identifi-
| cation, friend of the victim, tainted
ut is a great stride in world Grim
inology," says Mrs. Mary Hamilton,
! New York policewoman who interest
ed Captain Williams in the Haver-
straw case "A modelling laboratory
using Captain Williams methods,
could solve many murder mysteries
and clear up missing person eases"
! The famous Dorothy Arnold case
might have been solved years ago, it
was pointed out, under such a system
of scientific Identification.
I New York alone his 400 unidenti-
I fled dead in a year." says Williams.
'1f we had the means and facilities to
reconstruct skulls probably nine
tenths of these mysteries could be
solved"
Williams stumbled on skull recon
struction by accident while working
on the Larossa case.
Rubbing my forehead one day.
noticed the layer of flesh was ex-
tremely thin he said 1.-THE same
Was true, found, of the entire face,
with the possible exception OF the
cheeks. 1 decided it would be easy to
build q face out of clay by closely fol-
lowing the bone contours.
Describes Methods
| AEHirSf dnfarmina tho annrOyi m al q
I'age by examining the teeth. If there
is hair on the skull I add false hair
lof that color. Building an ear is pure
ly speculative, but the ear is not so
important in getting the Photographic
outlines OF a face. The color of eyes
sometimes may be determined from
the hair. I use glass eyes, and build
up eye broWs OF the same color as the
hair.
Whether a man wore a rnustache
or beard or was baldheaded is guess
work. In reconstructing a woman's
skull the difficulties are fewer. In
building mans skull. as in the Lar
ossa case, hat or cap can be used
to avoid the question OF badness.
"a wad of cotton is used in either
cheek, but otherwise the lines and
humps in the skull can be followed
faithfully in modelling a thin layer of
clay. The soft pad of the chin is built
Mp with very little padding. while the
shape of the nose can he determined
from the lines in the skull structure.
Williams, after his first experiment
six years ago, took up the study OF
physiognomy, craniology and cranio-
metry to aid him in his work. He is
an authority on finger prints and 9th
er forms OF Identification He has
lectured on these subjects and now
is writing a book about them.
Though only middle-aged, Williams
is on the retired list. due to illness
He established the Bureau of Identi
fication at New York police headquar
tiers in 1913 after the body of the we'll
known Timothy D. Sullivan, killed in
an accident, lay in the New York
morgue ten days. He also reorgan
lied the Bureau of Missing Persons
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