The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1902, Page 6

These Are the Parts of Heads Used to Make ite Face; mustache From No. 5, Nose the Comipo From No. 6, Hair From and Eyes From No. 2. HE SUNDAY CALL. No. 1, Chin From No. 4 | ) Parts of These Photographs That “Look Like Bennett.” 1 ir like Bennett’s—Se- lected by Krone. 2—General shape of face like Bennett’s — Selected by Leha- 3—Figure 1 Bennett’s—Se- iected by Krone, Schell and Steng { 4—Chin like Bennett’s—Se- | lected by Xrone and Sckell. 5—Mustache and lower part of face like Bennett's—Select- | ed by Krone, Schell, Leha- | nier and Stengel. | 6—Nose like Bennett’s—Se- | lected by Krone, Lehanier | and Schell. | | is & page of photographs that i Bennett.” 4 nan whose featu; ongest chara these faces? e the police have e and altogether Bennett, upon whom the i has been fixed, he has baf- of the best sleuths of the igate the son why the house of death was still noccupied after it had been rented for Bennett had disappeared. d his crime of solution. In ial detail sur- e there are substantial of any Less than half a dozen people In the city have ever seen Bennett. At the police have been unable to find any others. Of these half dozen ths po- lice have had to place their chief depend- ence for all their information about Ben- nett on just four men. They are Fred W. Krone, proprietor of the Popular Res- raurant, where Bennett dined quite regu- Jarly and where Nora Fuller kept her st with the man who is now be- ed far and wide; E. B. Stengel Noonan Furniture Company, on sion street, near Sixth. and B. T. hell of J. C. Cavanaugh's, at 84§ Mis~ treet, from both of whom Bennett buy furniture; and C. 8. Leha- the clerk at Umbsen & Co.’s, from ennett rented the Sutter-street n the meager Gescriptions of e four men hang the whole sum and ce of all that the police know Benpett. With the exccption of none of them have ever seen the ted criminal more than once or N S ried 1o yet, though they cannot tal picture of the murd se with any degree of accu- have his image clcarly ind’s eye and declare em- y would know him again convey rer 1o because, as the police have pointed out, Bo two people ever give the same de- scription, or even & passably good de- scription, of the same person, as in like degree nO iwo pecple ever receive the = 7 same mental description the pictu ( impression from the ‘same these four men have selected page for The Sun from 1s of other photograpns f men who answer the police descrip- t how just what type of face Ben- nett has and help the detectives in their urse, none of t e pictures look « like Bennett That would be im- ¥ for in all the world there are ; 0 persons who look precisely alike But according to these four men who K ow Be tt best the pictures they have elected show the chief characteristies of ice, and serve to give a good idea the pecuiiarities of the features which nnot be gained by any one, even those tra ned to the wo: from mere descrip- The police themselves who could never declare that men cognize Bennett from the descriptions sent out broadcast. even they should see him every day, know him at a glance after seeing >tograph, or a good picture of a who “looks like Bennett.” There tification known No matter what changes may make in his hair or beard or clothes, the tell-tale expression the shape and contour of his shown with absolute fidelity by the camera—never changes. s for this reason that the police have g _everywhere for a good of Bennett or of a man who ' to send out to sup- ription of the mur- mour has more than that such a picture is of paramount importance, for many serious biunders have been made from the de- scriptions that have been telegraphed all over the country: “Bennett’s height is about five feet and seven inches; weight about 160 pounds. excellent teeth, slightly prominent; mustache of brownish color, chin rather long—as is also his face. Has a decided cast in his right eye, the eyelid of which droops slightly. His hands, always in good condition, favor the idea that he has never done any manual labor. He walks with & military swing, takes long strides and appears to be 2 man belonging to some profession, being studiously inclined. Is always well dressed, usually in black Prince Albert coat or long black overcoat with Derby or silk hat. He is between and 40 ‘years old.” Those are ail the essential points, but so far they have proved absolutely use- less for all practical purposes. With that description alone to guide them, thou- sands of professional and amateur sleuths are working to get the big reward offered for Nora Fuller's murderer. Scores of men have been arrested or kept under close surveillance for weeks, simply be- cause they “look like Bennett.” The best detectives on the local force, even inchud- ing Captain Seymour himself, have gone scurrying up and down the coast and half way oss the continent and back again to ldentify suspects who “look like Ben- nett.” only to find that the zealous poiice bad arrested the wrong man. In ore or two instances the man who *looks like Bennett” has turned the tables on s captors, as in the case of the overconii- dent amateur detective down south who serving sixty days for false jm- rent because he followed a man oked like Bennett” for two days and finally, after a desperate encounter, brought him beck to jajl by matn force. It is to prevent just such expensive mis- these as well as to give the po- lice of every city and town in the West something tangible to work on that the four chief witnesses against Bennett have selected these photographs that “look like Bennett.” As the police point out, Bennett’s face is in no sense the accept- ed criminal type which they declare is the reason he is so hard to catch. And because, too, his description fits so many man is nd better means of iden to criminolog the fugitive is now Man Who *“Looks Like s Composite Face of Bennett”” Made Up From Characteristic Features of the Fa.es on This Page, Selected by the Four Witnesses Who Had Dealings With Bennett. e men perfectly they have found scores ot cuspects who ‘“look like Bennett.” In- deed, the description is such a common one that everybody, even the schoo! children, are now pointing out men who “look like Bennett.” As Krone has had the greatest opportu- nity for studying the missing murderer he was asked to make the first selections. After going over the big pile of photo- graphs several times with great care and deliberation he picked out the six print- ed herewith: AT “This picture (No. 2), bears the most general resemblance to Bennett,” he said. “‘though the face is a little too broad and the mustache droops too much at the ends. This picture (No. §) shows the mustache and the expression of the lower half of Bennett's face. more clearly. Ben- nett’s mustache was quite full ltke this and he wore it in precisely the same way. This man Is too alert; too wide awak and forceful looking for Bennett, how- ever. Bennett's nose was broad like this (No. 6). It was both broad and flat, com- paratively speaxing, und the cluef pecu- larity was the fact that you can look right Into his nostrils, which you cannot do with this picture (No. 5). ““Then, too, his chin was not so strong. I was more poiuted ke Lhis tNou. 4. and he always brushed his hair like this (No. 1). His figure was square and solid- looking like this (No. 3). But his particu- lar type of face s best shown in these Lwu piceures 2 e s a (No. 5) has the strongest resembiance t Bennett's face of any picture the police Nos (Continued on Page Ten.)