Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30

presented his passport for the French debarka-
ton stamp. another Surete man hastily copied
the photograph on it. Two minutes later the
passport was handed back with a polite and
reassuring bow. ..r
If there had been an urgent necessity, an
English-speaking detective would have accom-
panied the crook to Paris, probably posed rs
the agent of a tourist bureau and talked him
dry, but in this the local Surete chief
simply waited until the boat train had left
and then telephoned Paris headquarters.
That American crook you told me about
yesterday left here on the boat train at 2:3O
this afternoon and is due at Paris at $780,"
he told one of the subchiefs. He is in the
first compartment of the first coach and has
meet him. of course?
His speaking likeness (portrait parle) is
medium height, fiat nose, retreating chin" B.
THE speaking likeness is one Of BertinCn's
inventions that has survived the master
crime expert, whereas his principal discovery,
the anthropometric system of identification or
measurement of different parts of the body,
has been entirely superseded by the fingerrrMt
system. :4ss.z gag ...-. 1855.
Thanks to this speaking likeness, the Frencf
police no longer trouble to send out a long;
complicated description when they want a man
picked up It would only be confusing. In
stead they simply note several of the mans
outstanding facial characteristics +t-
When slippery Dan" arrived in the st.
Lazare railway station, in Paris, he was met
by another invisible reception committee COM
posed of several Surete men on duty at the
station itself, and they had a baggage porter
carefully listen what hotel he wished to be
driven to. Even If he had deliberately changed
his mind en- route and gone to another hotel,
the police would have quickly located him.
Every hotel guest in France-in fact, in all
Europe-must ill out slip for the police and
show his passport These are collected every
morning. ........
II slippery Dan" had gone to a private
apartment, the concierge or doorkeeper would
have mentioned it to the policeman on the
beat, who would, in turn mention it to head
quarters. The concierges of Paris know the
innermost secrets of the lives of all their ten
ants and they are great asset to the police
I'VE have seen your man safely to the Hotel
x. and we will turn him over to you now" the
Surete once at the railway station telephoned
the Surete headquarters In the ministry Of the
interior.
At this moment the real surveillance begins
special type of shadow man, called "limier"
or bloodhound is put on the crooks trail 70
watch him. To start with the bloodhound win
give his headquarters a complete description
OF the crook for their records. If no finger.
prints are available from New York, 1t Is 50
easy TO get them here. The bloodhound viii
get waiter in q cafe to serve Slippery Dan"
. drink in glass with an invisible coating
OF wax, which allows an excellent reproduction
when certain black powder is blown over it.
There are dozen tricks of getting a mans
prints without his knowing It, especially If he
IS intoxicated. A few hours later the director
Of the Bertillon Bureau at the Surete will be
rubbing his hands in delight, like a stamp
collector who has just picked up rare spect-
men. ~ - '- ~.