Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — HIDDEN SECRETS OF THE TELL TALE HAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIDDEN SECRETS OF THE TELL TALE HAND

For ten thousand years the fate of men has looked out through the millions of lines in the palms of their hands. The hands are the windows of the soul instead of the eyes. Along the ridges, the valleys and the mountains of the palm destiny was written. and there it is read if tae reader be deep in the science of palmistry, Man is irrevocably mixed up with the eternal, can neither voluntarily noi Involuntarily escape or even oppose the Inscrutable verdict of the eternal. All things are. and the past as well as the future are only local applications used for small conveniences. There are ,no such things in reality as up or down, north, east, south or west. They belong to the mundane, which, compared with the infinite. Is Indeed a trifling matter in the economy of the universe.

So says Dr. Carl Louis Perln, the great master of palmistry, who has been shown favors by kings and honored by academies, schools and colleges for his remarkable delvings into the secrets of the open palm In scientific ways. “I was with Luetgert, the Chicago sausage maker who killed his wffe,” said Dr. Perin, "and in him I found a, remarkable instance where the face could not be relied upon for information regarding the soul. He received me with gushing cordiality and appeared one of the most open-hearted persons imaginable. I wanted to get an Impression of his palm,.“for I believed that there was the regulation mark of cruelty in It, and The murderer’s hook. By the ‘murderer’s hook’ I refeT to a mark shaped something like the figure ‘2,’ as will be observed in the picture. Nearly all murderers have in their hands at exactly the same place, this mark—this curse of Cain. , I took the impression, and was surprised at the distinctness with which It loomed up. “The mark of cruelty, as will be seen in the illustrations, runs from the ring finger toward the mount of Jupi ter. The hook Is on the edge of the heart line, under the mount of Saturn. Long before Theodore Durand, the murderer of Blanche Dumont and Minnie Williams, In San Francisco, icame to trial, I took an impression of his hand, made my study from It# wrote my opinion that he was a murderer, and, sealing my notes, left them In a vault to be opened after the trial was over. I made my predictions, and after the trial was concluded they were opened, and my findings were according to the facts. I discovered the hook and I knew that he was guilty. "In 1887 Broulent, the murderer of his wife and child, whose case was among the most famous in Paris, France, for years, was to be tried for the double murder on circumstantial evidence. Before he came to trial I wanted to get an impresion of h’s hand. According to the rules of law there the business of a caller must be

explained to a man under arrest before he can be admitted. The first day I applied he sent word that he was Indisposed, but that he would see me within a week. When I called again he had burned out the inside of his palm to prevent Its secrets from being read. I cite this as a remarkable case wherein abject fear of the truths of palmistry caused an extreme self-infliction. He was convicted and executed just the same. “Not long ago I took an impression of the palm or Roslin Ferrell, the Columbus man who killed Express Messenger Lane, and I took an impression of the palm of Molineux, but failed to find the telltale mark. I am unable to satisfy my own mind, after a careful study of his palm, as to whether he is or is not a murderer.” Id Dr. Perln’s collection of palm Impressions are those of President McKinley, Colonel William Jennings Bryan, and about two-thirds of the present United States senators and representatives. Some palmists, at least, are willing to take their own medicine. This Is evidenced in the case of Dr. Perln, and probably if the data was obtainable

other cases might be found of other palmists less great who would believe their own readings. While In Chicago Dr. Perin made readings of the hands of two men, Paul Hirsch and Louis Enright. These two men had been interested in contracting, and it seems had been the promoters of a railroad from Canon City and Cripple Creek, Colo. There was some trouble, however, and the result was that while the two men were away the directors

of the road swore out warrants against the men (or embezzlement of 54,000, and they were arrested when they arrived In Denver at the Palace hotel. It so happened that Dr. Perin read the newspaper accounts and remembered the names of the men. He consulted his impressions and was so convinced that they were wrongfully accused that he went to Denver at once, secured a bond, engaged Editor Patterson of the Rocky Mountain News as counsel for the defense, and the result was that the men were easily acquitted, and are now in control of the road.