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Show THE MUltlll'.ltnt'S HAM) BA1I1 TO IIFVKU, JIOIIF. AIIUUT IUU THAN IIIU tACr. St Jamt$ fla itu Hal the murderer n distinctive Land? M. Desbarollea, a French laveant, who made the hand hlsitudy, wai emphatic on that point. The murderer, he wasfanvltiied, Is known by the thumb, and to this thumb he Eave the name of the pouie en bllle. leatiarollea remarka that the faces of murdcreri may not nectsiarlly be re-pulalve, re-pulalve, but that the hands are always hideous self-condemnatory. Kvldsuco on tho latter characteristic Is but scanty scan-ty and rctta upon tho Investigations of the French chlromantlMa; but a a to tho former It la a fact that tome of thu moat brutal murders uu record have been perpetrated by men wheae vounteuinccs habitually wore a mild exireeatou. Williams, thu murderer oi the Marts, It Is said, had a singularly loft voice. A girl who knew him, glvlug evldenoe at nla trlul, was asked by the prleouer whether she would be afraid If ibe awoke from sleep and found him standing by her bsdalde. "Not If I heard your voice and knew It was you, Mr. Williams," was her reply. Mr. Hooll, chaplalnW the prison pri-son In whloli Dsemlng was executed, ssyi the murderer was a t leusnt man to sneak to until croi'cd: and tbo man's Influence over wouiou cousinly supports this statement. Home of the medical authorities who oxamlued Deeming'! hands declare Ills broat thumb Indicated tbo burn murderer. Hut tho drawing which his been publlihed li not toat of tho pouro en blllo. The truo pouceenbllle, or hull besded tliuiu, ai It might be termed lu Hngland, gives to tho ilrst phalange a round, bulbous appearance. It Is ihort nnd the uall la io abbreviate vd aa to tuggest that It has boon gnaw, iil. It Is Imbedded lutholloih which rlata on vllher tide and oxtmds buyoud It. In the drawing of Doeinlng'i thumb the bulbous swelling Is carried below the phalango nnd the nail la level with, the tip; but those dlllerencca may be duo to the Inaccurate observation ol theartlit. Deibarollca ixamlned tho hands of many murderers, and In all found the police en tulle. He also dUoovered other ilgns. The lingers of Armando l'blloppe, who committed an ntrooloua murdir, were bunt toward the left aide, and the lines of the lalmi were of a diep red, ai though they had been dlpivd In blood. Tho Augers, especially especial-ly tho second and third, were spatulous at the tips, and tho nulls, short and ugly, wero burled In tho llesh. I,e-iiislro, I,e-iiislro, who murdered hli father uud three other persons, had trooked, spat-ul spat-ul ius fingers, and the police en bills, but on one hand only. Dumollard, a wholesale murdorer ufthullret runk, had a band romaikablo for thickness and lougth of palm lu proportion to thu llngera. Thla abnormal length ol I aim, according to the rules of thu clonce, Indicates lutenso animalism. Dumollard had a itgulllcant elgu, com mon to moat murJerors nnmily, the Hnei of life, head and heart. These linen were very strongly defined. The Hue of the head tho center lino extending ex-tending acroislhe pilra wai violently cut by thu lino ol life, limning upwards up-wards from thu wrist. Chlromauoy Interpret" thla to foretell a violent death. Detbarolln noticed It for the first time on the hand of I,emalre, and eight dayi alterwardaiuw It on tho baud of Dumollard, The Augers of the latter were uneven and knotty at the nail phalanges, Tho hands or Dumollard Indicated flixltle will, nvarlco and absence of Ul iral feeling! The lure of Monlluel, noticing Ills ex ttaordlnary coolness when about to bo guillotine-!, asld to him "Only martyr! go to the ecallold with this Indlller-enco." Indlller-enco." l.li blon. e leral avwj eux," retorted Dumollard. Trnppmaii, another wholcsilo murderer, mur-derer, had nothing parlliulor about the shape of Ills hands, Indeed, thev wero almost elegant; but then, as M. Deabarolle a remarks, he wai not bom precisely for crime. Hllll the bilm wasdeOolonlln maiklogs bejoud the throe principal lines, nnd he had the fatal sign of tho loitiold. Tronptniiim's hnnd was also distinguish by an abnormal ab-normal development of the Mount of Mars lu other words, a thlcke ilng of thooutlldocdguofthe hand, His II n gers wero flat, and bo committed mur-Uers mur-Uers for gain, becauae, as M. Desbarollea Desbar-ollea philosophically puts It. of his do-termlnstlon do-termlnstlon to be comfortablo at any price. , Dacenalre, another notorious male-factor, male-factor, had largo spatulous Augers, a long palm with tho line of tho palm cut In two, ihcrnalls, and thumu absolutely ab-solutely vu blllc. berieau and lltoull-IsrJ, lltoull-IsrJ, who murdered a woman In the lluo Cllchy, had hanJi of a ilmllar pattern. Muller, the murderer ol Mr. llrlggs, posraied the oucotii bll e, the tlm-ora vury crooked aud an absence of lines lu trio palm. He also had the omlnoui scaUbld matk Intbeseteraiice of tho ilou of the bead. Ihu hand of Mulllus, the Hlepner murderer, was loll, and tho tinners crooked. Hu lis I the louue en tittle-, but lather longer than usual. To turn up, the elz.ni of the murde r-er'a r-er'a hind are: I'lraily, lliopuuco en bllle. Hecondly, and only less Important, Import-ant, the thickness of the Mouut of Man at tho edge of tbo hand, from which lluwi thu blood din 01 to the brain at the slightest motion, and causes tho man Ik "e red." thirdly, the ecaltbld slgu. Fourthly, tho pre seuce only lu the pilm of tho three prlclpat liner, occasionally reduced to two, and almoit nlwujl a bright icarlel. Flflly, crooked fingers with ipatuloui tips, tbo nails mall nid uneven, Acoordlug to the rule ol art, therelore, a murderer, If a murderer by disposition, disposi-tion, and not (as In most caaea) by accident, ac-cident, ought tu havu a hand wild all or nearly all, these characteristics. |