The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1911, Page 3

SAG = THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY va anathietinn 13, 1911. POLICEMAN WWDGE, (CATCHING CRIMINALS BY THEIR FINGER PRINTS Police Expert 1 Tells How They Are Photograph and Signature to Him LONG MISSING, f FOUND IN RIVER Mystery of His Disappearance on Dec. 2, 1910, Only Partly Cleared. BELT AND CLUB GONE ‘He Had Been Doing Duty on the Taxicab Strike When He Vanished. ‘Three smull boys, from a bulkhead at] Kast Twenty-ninth street, to-day, in the water a body which was ‘heats | fled as that of Policeman James J. | Judge, of the Bonx Park station, who mysteriously disappeared shortly ater | midnight of Dec. 2, 1919, For month the disappearance of the yomeaman has | been one of the unsolved mysteries of | the Police Department. Every day since Dec, 3 a uniformed | policeman from the East ‘Twenty-sec- ond street station journeyed to the home from which he was missing and inquired if the wife had any tidings. This faithful performance was supple: | mented by tours through vacant fats, | into dark cellars and to ail of the pos- | sible points where a :ran, Waylaid | and killed by a gang, might have been lett, For ten years Judge had lived at No. 1 East Thirtieth street. Then, short!y before his disappearance, he and his wife took the flat at 0, 226 Kast ‘Twenty-seventh street. Put on Strike Duty. Judge had hetped the wife fix up the new place in his spare hours and was a familiar figure in the neighborhood. About the time of his change of home | the chauffeurs of the various taxicab | companies were on strike, Judge was! brought from the Sixty-elghth Precinct and placed on special duty at the office of the New York Taxicab Company, al No. 662 West Fifty-seventh street. His hours were from 4 o'clock in the after- noon until midnight, and it was a part of his duties to go with machines! which were sent through the lines of | strikers. He left ‘is home after dinner on Dec. 2. After finishing his work he came ‘back to the Cosey Saloon, at Third ave- nue and Twenty-seventh street, where he had two drinks of whiskey. It was & cold night and the policeman had been much exposed. After taking the two drinks he left the saloon and walked into the street. That was the last time he was seen alive by any of hie friends Joseph Burns, fifteen years of age, of No, 64 First avenue, was sitting to-day on the old bulkhead at the Twenty-ninth street terminus at the Fast River with John and Joseph Catoldo, two young friends ‘They were waiting to jump on an old sand scow when young Burns saw theq body of a man floating in the river. Boys Call for Help. ‘Man overboard!” shouted Burne, Man overboard!” repeated his com- panions at the top of their voices. Then they ran for @ policeman. They found Policeman Reichenbach of the East ‘Thirty-fifth street station, who called Capt. David Collins, in charge of the Volunteer Life Savings station at Bell- vue, and his asistant, John MeCann. ‘The three men manned a rowboat and pulled for the body. ‘From the boat the policeman could see the shield and precinct number of the deadi policeman, The shield bore > 99 und the collar the brass 8" of the Bronx Park dist ‘Mhat's Judge! said the policeman A‘rope was placed around the body and It was towed down to the Morgue, where the body was searched. The cap, pelt and club were gone, but they found the revolver, keys and $4.69 that the policeman had carried. Mrs. Ellen Judge, widaw of the po- liceman, went to the Morgue with two Carson cousins, She was very weak from ill- ness, She identified a black diagonal suft he had worn under his uniform uring the cold weather, No Mark of Foul Play. | Coroner's. Physician Schultz — per- formed an autopsy during the after-| noon and found no indications of foul play Pithere were no marks on the heaa| and the skull was intact, ‘The foie slight dlscolorations on the which were due, the physl the action of the water, Dr, Schultz will seek to ascertain whether the po- ficeman tet death through drowning or whether he was dead when went into the water, here hed been many theories upon which the police worked in thelr efforts | to find the lost policeman, One of them most prominently considered was that he had been killed by the Gas House gang were body, | n said, to} by mistake. It was known that the gang had a difference to settle with Po- | liceman Michael Judge of the East | Twenty-second street station, and that | the members of the gang had threatened to. ‘get’ Michael Judge for having peaten one of the gangsters who resisted arrest. eras BAR GRADUATION FRILLS FOR BARNARD GIRLS. “What's the use of graduating?” some of the Barnard girls are asking to-day. ‘The Class Day Committee of the sentors hag decreed that the sweet gir! graduate tius year ts to have no frilis and furbelows. All during commencement week the graduating class must wear plain, high linen dresses with high necks and long sleeves, and the academic caps and sowns. No flowers are to be worn or received at college, no train dresses ave ty be worn at the senior dance—and thus is evolved the “modified sweet gir! grad- uate. Radcliffe College announced some days ago that commencement week would be kod by simplicity In dress, and now | They | Probably have got him burned at the | Joseph A. Faurot, head of the finger his body | ° Lieut. Faurot, Whose Testi- mony Broke Down Burg- lar’s Alibi and Has Com-| pelled Recognition by Courts of System’s Intalli- bility, Shows How Lines Establish Positive Iden- tity. Remain the Same From Cradle to Grave, and There’s No Two Alike — Digital Hierogiyphics on Soup Ladle and Glass Bow! Made Suspects Con- fess. In a small and much littered room on the second floor of Police Head- quarters, surrounded by filing cabi- nets and shelf records, there is a square jawed, square shouldered, square talking man of medium height, doing the sort of magic which would stake a few centuries back—Lieut. print department of the Bureau of Identification. This Faurot is not the sort of a man to go around advertising himself or his accomplishments. To begin with, he is too busy, and In the sec- ond place he isn't that kind of a per- son. Hie is a quiet, reserved man, who looks less like the professional detective than anybody you ever saw. Also he can tell stories of his work which sound like pages torn from a latter-day Arabian Nights Entertain- ment, only he doesn't tell them to everybody who comes along. He was thrust into prominence—very much against his own willin the trial of Caesar Cella, alias Charles Crispi, for lary, which nad a sensational cll- max the day before yesterday when the prisoner, in the midst of the taking of evidence, confessed lis guilt and threw himself on the mercy of the Court. Convicted by Fingers. Faurot had convicted him solely by means of the finger prints which he left on a window glass yhile breaking Into an eaat side loft billing. He saw his carefully prepared alibi going to pleces, and to save the kinsfolk who had sworn | for him he owned up. Faurot blushed when Judge Rosalsky complimented him on the skill and ine telligence he had shown as an expert | Witness. He blushed some more at “lineup” yesterday morning when Dep- uty Commissioner Dougherty praised him before the two hundred assembled plain clothes men, He had hardly got through blushing when the writer of this saw him yesterday afternoon in his room, where he sits most of the day with his beloved and priceless thumb and finger prints—measuring them, sort- ing them, counting thelr minute con- formations through @ microscope, and finally indexing them by a marvellous system of classification under which, given the description of one hand, he can find the other, or, given one thumb, he can infalliyly pick out its mate from among the thousands upon thousands in his file, “In a way, said Lieut. Faurot, “the conviction of Cella will be a big help the police in their work hereafter. | have procured indictments before | rand Jury by finger print records alone, We have in times gone by m thousands of positive identifications of living men and dead by means of them, and at least twice in recent years we have been able to bulld up such certain “Some of us li felt dubious 4 about going this far because, for some | reason or some lack of reaxon, t! are still a great many people who, in spite of the results that have been at- tained, persist in resurd iinger print identifications as something frivo- | lous or uncertain, But from now on we will feel sure that the average jury | can be made to realize that this is the| oniy infalllble and absolutely sure ethod of fixing human Identity, If | you find finger prints where a crime hus been committed and the corr © finger nts | spond with the finger print records of @ man under suspicion or under ar- rest, you may be absolutely sure tha there Is no possibility of a mistake: “Bertiilon measurements vary, for one operator may measure a criminal closely and another measure him loose- | ly. Photographs vary, too, for men can change their appearance, and even their expressions, or age will do it for you them, But cannot destroy your finger-print From the crad to the grave the marks on the thun and fingers remain the same. They | never change, And, what is more, | there were never two sets in the world | that exactly corresponded. You may be absolutely sure that the lin the balls of your thumbs and fingers are original and unig. and pe- culiar to you. Nobody else anywhere has thumbs exactly like them, ov even so near Ike them as to cause possible confusion. "You cannot grind these tines out on & grindstone--I've seen that tried for the line conformation extend downward through all the layers of cuticle to the flesh itself, and though | you rub away the nerves are the skin surface until | raw and the blood | starts, the record will be all the clear- er, because in the process you have at Barnerd has followed, others are expected to joim rn merely cleaned out the small seore tions from between the minute ridgi | Rogue's Galen | Faurot. 8: ho press ea CHAS, PER WHO C4N NOT SicruREs — BoT WHOSE THUMB PRI IOEN TIFIED. INTHE CASE OF JONES- HoT THESE PRINTS WERE without selves, destroying the marks thent- Can't Destroy Record. “The only way to remove them would to bite out or cut out the ball of every digit, and if any living man had the nerve to deliberately subject him- self to such frightful toriure the mu-! tilation resulted would mark him even more unmistakably than be- fore, and so he would defeat his own object. It's just s way—if we have @ cruok’s finger-print records: her if he in committing a crime leaves the mark of one hand or even one finger b nd, we'll know his name and have an alarm out for him, accompanied oy a complete description, within an hour, | That's all there is to it” Finger printing isn't new, so Lieut. Faurot explains, as a lot of people be. Neve. It's as almost as clviliza- tion, The Chinese used it three thov sand years ago, instead of using se be whieh and and it was a sort of signature n with the East Indians, almost as back, Elghteen years ago, Mark Twat in his book of “Puddin’ He, told an imagi but perfectly 4 Wilson, logical ary story of how a village collector of fir ger prints not only fixed a munier on the murderer, but at the same showed that two babies had been! changed in the cradle. | The French were the first to adopt finger printing for police purposes. Then the Englisi followed suit. Seven! years ago George S. Dougherty, then local superintendent of the Pinkertons, but lately appointed a Deputy Polte Commis | Commissioner, suggested to sioner William McAdoo the advisability of adding @ finger print department to ¢ local Bertilion outfit, McAdoo liked jeu, Because of his unusual capa bilities and his knowledge of the ‘rench tongu was se to go to Paris and study the new wrinkle, Upon his return, after geven months, | he installed the plant waioh, under his hands, has erown to be Lue Most perfect Proof that the accused men pleaded | Rink (denen wulity In advance of trial, But this] St" of neon print MenREYIAS sh was the first time we had ever offered | ‘2 Wile world. ; finger prints as evidence in open court| “EVeH im the department the notion | before a jury. Was looked upon at tirst as largely ex- | ; ental,’ sald Faurot. “L walted for System Now Recognized. nia pele He y o ognized my chance to silence these critics, Well, reel L got it, Over In Green two of our men pleked up an old chap who was ted} stealing some jewelry st a the Waldorf. He used language and professed to be vonorable Eng lish gentleman in redu Jroumstan: es But im | which convin there Was something about ds us that he had | nan famate of prisons Scotland Vard Had His “Prints. “T induced the Commissioner to let me the efficacy of iny bu to Scolland Yard mei man's Uwe make # lest au, 1s he impressions of 6 old thumbs—no photosraph, no description, nothing but just those thumb prints and a letter, ing for comparisons wi the London records and the next ste thumb tmpre: report. By ates of my with @ photograp sions, of our prisoner and his prison record, He was Jones, allas Johns, alias halt a dozen other names and he was a aneak who had done time tn half the prisons in Great Britain, To-day the system of international exchange is general throughout the globe. And no where a thief flees he isn’t safe takes his fingers and thumbs along » him."* ts brought into dquarte now he may photographed for the ut he cannot dodge aightway he goes, under V's room, He ts made tlt in turn upon @ smal! ordinary printer's ink, Then he 1s required finger, with a Police evcape being escort, to pad, coated v slightly thinned to press the thumb iow rolling motion, upon a numbered space on a blank chart. In two min- | utes his ten finger prints are there, | perfect and indelible, ready to be clas- sified and filed. ry marking falla into ons of tour eneral divisions—in the slang of the EL THIEF, WIN BROTHER FRANK TIFIED FROM THEIR: NTS SENT TO SCOTLAND YARD WHOSE! Pid toaain ts RN ne FINGER PRINTS SHOWN IN“BY, WITH RECORD AND HIS PHOTO A RD AD. DiAPsKERS! cult, it ts ‘wh ‘conrposite,”” r irregula rh nop” an arch’ ov & a broken two of the trie whieh dis thumb. every sh every tinge every other finger thumb In the wor Seeks Finger Prints First. So now, curve and every ahd gles tngu from when New Yor) are sent out to Investigate a look first for any the crlminal may furniture, door ja rticle arded hand have b, window which he fingered metimes the si its Wh vind pane ind then voth sur ust being combination of ther patterns, It Is the con figuration of the pattern, the presence of |iieltas, breaks, bifureations, forks, an- to the naked eye will show no blur, But Faurot or of his men dusts it with powder ared chalk for dark surfaces, prepare! lampulack for white paper or cloth—and then, if the print Is there, It wil! stand out clear and distinet when the rest of the pow der ix shaken Off, ‘The sweat of the hand will have caught and held the particles of dust and nine tl out of ten Xhere will be leit bebind al foundation upon which the bureau can] go to work If there {4 only ane hand pr one finger print the comple is made up by a proc deductions. A hyp the missing dix in addition a tried, then Faurot walks to @ certain ca hy a certain chart, consults the a » ng data and tells the ¢ tral Of fice to look for # and a man Tt Is all very simple and very wonder: ful ‘Once, some years a ud the man who works these wizard tricks, "Aa from i house in Was 1 Square howl of the { re in a clear It ; ou tha ia arta and Will stay fresh for fully five days main intact for at leas! ninety days Any time within three n atten a tilef unless he wore glover ba Clue on Soup Ladle \ there was t adie w . ed ula A 1 T thought 1 liad end thumb in my conte ae trying to find its owner tn the file which impressed me, to ad three und only @ few Fine 1 ga » 1 tot w had never been “Three months later a! p ma brought In a suspect who'l been caught hanging around an east side pawnshop T took his print and, 1 , studied It a nig the ur chart over to my assistants ela 1. Ihave worked at th fob so long that my memory for fh in my mind for months or year® Brom like another to me than isn't a gift; It's obser ence ‘T studied that thumb print for a jaute, and then it came to oO the ball of the right thumb were hree delta over and ot do iny soup ludie picture, and rathe 1 stand trial Herman Kaplan, called t ‘candle burglar’ ried 4 tallow dip with him, took @ plea of guilty and went up the river. The soup ladic he didn't take because It was because he al HELD IN THE PALM OF THEHAND 15 CRISPI wero CONFESSED FO BURGLAR NO2, “ eheee previews eon Wale Ran Caaremr O90 Tho 4 q HOTEL THIEF ated had la him in Sing Sing. Paurot caught up the boy's rhght ‘Then there Was the case of a burglar| hand and glanced swiftly at it named Cohen. He broke Into the honv "he said; “the first inan had of John G, Milburn and carried off a lot] worl ‘This man has a loop, ‘They’ of stuff, In shifting a Mantel clock he left | not at all alike-—the thumbs, [ined the prints of two fingers on the glaas| A visiting Chinese nobleman, front. [ photographed the prints off,| prince of the reigning family, wh counted the ii and measured the] studying American eriminology, curves, and in five minutes or less T! called on Faurot ly and told told’ the office to look for “Sheeney | that for three thousand years Black" Cohen, who had been my guest ple had been using thumb prints 1 more than one previous occasion, | to Identify signatures on business con- shen Was ina cell nan hour, and he tracts: also took a plea of guilty rather than] “Don't you identify. your eriminals face a jury | the same way?” asked Maurot Iron Rust Printed Hand. | "No," said the Prince without a “Not #0 long ago a thief climbed aj Khost of a #mile lin bland, round fire excape and entered a flat in an| face; “we have a better way of Iden partment house In Bast Ninetyefirat| tfying our crlmiy We cut thelr street, ‘There was a Kitehen table with | heads off." & white ollcloth ron it drawn up| ‘The one thing in his vast collection in front of the window detective | of which Faurot proudest “ on the cae was a detective in fact as] phot Kuowing a single thumb well as inna He figured that the] print on a& cut Klass rose ti Near? thief must have tone hand on] three years ago burglars brok that ollcloth ax he eame through the| a residence in Flatbush. They carrled window. He examined it closely and| om most ‘ ble contents of saw What Jooked like a smear of iron| the dining room. Strangely enotgh, a ist, ‘The fire escape was tron snd it rd which had been in te Was rust | cage the night before was fying about wrapped It up fully and! the robbery in the morning. A detecs titehere, T dusted t Vtamp-| tive brought the only tangible clue te lack and got a perfect Impression of | Faurot—thia cut Klass rose Bowl with A palm, a thumb and four fingers. Wel the thumb bl Its inner syle He hand tn the record followed the usual proce enlarie Ade of two mnutes, Onl ing the trace photograpoically and fe sire f that th cover and| then searching for it vate in the not else " nidicted a | cabinets erta un, Td ’ 1 hia name, | Murder Revealed Rober. eld up a strip ed under | qater, In anot mart of Flatbush, o¢- re, with the outlines of| curred the Staber — murde! rs ) hand pla in tte Ke RK, Sta was killed by one lor two burglars who had broken inte tne no Ingentous persons | he re. In attempting to save his e tried to trip Fa Modestly | mother her son wounded one of the Perry nake a iving on the Vaude-, John Smith, protested that he war not eon induced 4 companton to Join i. robbing the Staber home, It was his 1 ery first crime, he declared over and expresston~d Atos pecullar | over aga mnie Eat t the f 1he had no 4 Wyse y look and toa he knew re hal later he was catching a econd, They the first stepped | ward where jomann lay and witho: it and his exact counterpart stepped | warning snapped a question at the proa- in. trate figure on the hospital cot Is this the man you just saw?! “Sehitemann said, “when you asked the man who had planned broke into that other house in Mlatbush trick. three months ago why didn't you take } > 7 ‘ON THE No}.15 AN ENLARGED PHOTO OF ‘ THE FINGER PRINT, LEFT LADLE SHOWN, BY & BURGLAR, WHO ENTERED ‘DR PRITCHARDS Ho {Say ENLARGED FI FROM THE HAND OF KAPLAN: WHO CONFESSED caonitng oun SK 6 Kiconpinon on it? derer blurted St a Bin New. NGER PRINT HERMAN ken by surprise the frightened mur. | out the truth, the cut glass bowl with the gold flagree | IT'S THANK GOD, | CAN “KEEP MOUTH SHUT, SAYS MS. WHITE Won't Talk of py but Calls Story Husband Went to Pier With Her “Absurd.” LONDON, May 1—Mra. Archibald 8. White, who was Olive Celeste Moore, a comic opesa ear, was among the Mau- who have artived ening World man agked sie is not defending flied by her @us- ist before she sailed any statement, Sut ngers eve. The F Mrs, White w band in e dectined to i Thank God 1 am in Engiand, where I can keep my mouth shut i T iiket* Helng pressed to describe the status of ber matrlnonial affairs, Mra, White aad Some (lots aboard the ship said my husband came down to the pler in New se off. That ts absurd, The attitude of my husband and myself to- ri each other remains unchanged.” White aalied on the Mauretania On the evening oecore, her bus broker and promoter of Cinein- New York, gave a dinner in , He bade her goodby on the steamer. 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