Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — CLUES TO IDENTIFY. [ARTICLE]

CLUES TO IDENTIFY.

Little. Inconaldered TMoci Help Tetectfves end Searcher*. f~ The number of clues each of us carries with us every day of our lives, and by which detectives could surely Identify us, Is endless. Take clothes first of all. A man, as a rule, gets all his clothes from the same tailor; but, whether he does or not, and however carefully he endeavors to cut off every tag and mark, that tailor would have no difficulty in Identifying the garmets be <has made. Thread, stitching, buttons, lining—all tell their own tale. More particularly so do what tailors call “specials.” These are simply special pockets—fountain pen and pencil pockets, eyeglass pockets, watch pockets lined with wash leather, cigar, ticket, flask and inner waistcoat pockets. A watch brought a murderer to justice about four years ago. It was not a stolen one, but his own, that ho had had for years. His defense was an alibi. He very nearly proved that he bad not been at the scene of the crime within three months of the date of the murder. Hud not one of the detectives engaged In the case been formerly a jeweler’s apprentice the man would have got off. But Inside the criminal’s watch case was the record, written so that only a watchmaker could read It, that the watch had been In the hands of a Jeweler for repairs the very day before the murder. The watch was submitted to a number of watchmakers, and at last recognized by one who had put Into It t new mainspring. The alibi was broken down, and in the end the prisoner made a full eoufession. The man who has ever gone to a good dentist has left behind him a lifelong record which would enable that practitioner to Identify him Tyith absolute certainty. Such a dentist makes note of every tooth he stops, and more particularly what he puts in It. Stoppings are of dozens of different kinds in these days. Plain gold or plain amalgam is comparatively rarely used. Gold and platinum In various proportions and many other metals are employed, so that, unless a criminal has all his teeth pulled out, he can most certainly be Identified. Even then a plate Is as sure a clue as a coat.—New York Sun.