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Show Mustaches and Crimes. "Frank Richardson, writing in the Cornhlll Magazine, insists on the dishonesty dis-honesty of hiding tho telltale upper lip. "Of all the great criminals of our day," ho says, "I can recall none -who dared to practice with a naked face. Drs. Lamson and Nelll Cream Judiciously concealed as much of their physiognomy physiogno-my as might be. Fowler, who murdered murder-ed by night at Muswell Hill, and Jabez Balfour were bearded men. Wain-wrlght Wain-wrlght wore the 'nvistachlos' of his period. pe-riod. James Canham Read and Deeming Deem-ing and Bennett of the 'boot lace murder mur-der were possessed of mouths that prudence compelled them to conceal. "The blue burglarious jowl la a fantasy fan-tasy of the nov'elist. No burglar goes about with a face that In itself amounts to a previous conviction. When he is in jail matters are different, for our prison authorities wisely decree that the convict's face shall be shaven and .his beard be shorn. They at least Insist In-sist on seeing the man as he is." |