Show scientific HEAD READ HUNTERS the men who collect l of noted doted Crini innis alfrom the key new york suna have you any murderers heads in in your possession semion was tho the query propounded po to manager starr at gu bunnells n ells by the writer a few days ago 69 oh ob yes plenty of them was the tte nonchalant none kes ailant reply where do you keep them como come with mo me and I will show you FoU following owing mr starr the searcher archer te after murderers heads soon found himself in the presence of a score of plaster casts of the beads of people ale who had been executed for fortak tak ing human life the casts were in in rows upon sh shelves ilves the most prominent was wu that of charles T guiteau the murderer of president garfield all these casts casta were taken after death remarked sir starr and there is no an humbug among them where did you get them from mr fuller the detective HP ife sell them to us at any price ri ce but he kindly consented to crit loan them hernto to us on condition that wo we take good care of them and s ce co that they arc are not broken or etan et cn have you got chastine cox oh yes there he lie is on the top ah shelf elf then mr starr took the plaster of f paris head of a woman from ono one of the shelve shelves and handing it to the tile writer exclaimed theres a beauty her name was gottfried she murdered sixteen persons in germany the victims included two hw husbands bands two or three brothers and the remainder were her own and relatives children how did she murder them poisoned them to death when was she hanged oct ocl 17 1857 and this cast of her head was made within half an ail hour after the she was cut down another pr prominent eminent buat bust in the collection u was as that of von berger the notorious pirate who was hanged ballge april 23 1820 killed his wife on staten island and packed her dead body in a barrel r which he conveyed on an a wheelbarrow to a burial place lace in the woods near silver la lake e is also aho conspicuous amon among the plaster of paris heads sonic of the other heads aro are labeled as follows dr pritchard hanged june 19 10 1868 A muller hanged ed august 23 20 1865 hare executed december lo 10 1828 airs IN manning Iannino died on the scaffold jan 10 1863 john chase chose hanged january 27 1865 dr kohl executed september 1870 robinson hanged april V faske be headed in in russia in 1830 johnson Fob executed july 16 1821 deane hanged november 1829 george wilson executed january 31 martin artin hanged july 1865 entering the establishment of fowler wella the phrenologists on broadway Brad the writer was shown duplicates of some of the casts of heads beads contained in the above collection all murderers have badly shaped heads said the professor in charge there is a similarity in their craniums among the heads of well known desperadoes which have been examined at fowler wells establishment are those of the F ford ord boys who killed jcsse jesse janica james the outlaw mr ir starr took them to the ahre and at his request charts of their iii hads ads were written the chart of bob fords cranium states this head measures twenty two inches which is a full size for a man who pounds aa As this man weighs twelve pounds lea lesz his head is too largo large fur for his body this man is selfish his or dans of combativeness bati veness destructiveness and se arc large Heb he has asun un common ae severity verity when aroused he be would make a good surgeon firmness and self will are among his evading characteristics self esteem ia is large this man would make a I good soi soldier d ler because he is not afraid to fight of charles W ford the phrenologist eaid said an examination of this mans mias head shows me that be he has bu strength of purpose ft a sharp temper and combativeness bati venesa veness enough to respond when people assail him he is not likely to ix bt gin i n a quarrel but h he will finish finh K it il we he is incapable of fear he is not devout hopeless ho or spiritual stepping ping inte into tafe museum of the new york x ork historical society at east eleventh street and second AVen writer asked the attendant in charge have you any old human heads beads on n exhibition in this establishment ob oh yes waa the tile reply in a nonchalant tone of voice how old about three thou thousand saad yeara years three thousand years do I under understand stan luat you u correctly what I said and I think that the tile chances arc are that sume sonic of the heads are more than three thousand years old can cin I see them certainly step this way please the obliging attendant led the way l to the gallery where were on galley I exhibition libation libi tion half a dozen ozen much dried u up p heads these heads were taken n fro from in m mummies u m in ies brought gli t from E egypt y pt one of them bore a striking resemblance to sammy tilden blat tho the head or rather the skull of charlea charles J guiteau tile as of president garfield should be stolen from its custodians at washington is not su surprising when we consider the almost insane desire on tho tile part of some people I e f for or the possession pm session of such ghastly guity relics r tile preservation of the tile head heads of persons who have been executed fur for murder treason and other reasons hag has been ft A custom for many centuries past the head of oliver cromwell the liberator of england was after his execution placed place upon a pole so that all passersby passers by could see it in its A human head severed from the body is a batly object at best it is related that of the many my hundreds who were beheaded headed be in trance france during the ator ly revolutionary times not one died with the eyan closed when the heads were in in the basket the great staring eyes seemed to r reproach ej roach the executioner the practice ts of beheading people is practiced practiced byea by savages as well as civilized people the tile natives of borneo have an insane desire to possess bum human heads A warrior chief estima estimates teb bis his importance by the number of these glia ghastly i t 11 ll y relics relies which he has bils stored in hia lodge the borneo chiefs have bave a method of preserving the captured heads the brain is removed and tile flesh and skin is treated by a process sil similar nilar to that by which leather is tanned when thus prepared the head will keep e ep in a good state of preservation it is i said lor for hundreds of years the warriors of borneo do not care so much for booty as they do for heads in former times they placed a special value upon the tile leads of europeans sailors who have been go so unfortunate as to bo be shipwrecked L upon tho the coast of borneo tell terrible stories of the difficulties which they experienced in ift keeping their heads upon ti their shoulders shoulder a numerous instances in have occurred in which sailors have been pursued night and find day by the tile savages who coveted their craniums crall in ins in china and japan until late years the favorite method of executing criminals was decapitating decapita ting them with swords used a broad heavy sword the culprit stood erect upon a platform in plain view of a multitude of spectators there was no bandage over his hi eyes or an attempt to prevent him from seeing the preparations reparations which were being mayle made to deprive him of his life Sud suddenly denry at a it signal div given en by the master of ceremonies elonies em onies the executioner made a grand sweep with his sword and the head of the culprit was severed from his body the body is buried but the head Is put upon a stake in a public alace place where it remains for weeks an and even months as 11 warning to all evildoers evil doers As the death penalty was inflicted for stealing and other minor crimes as well as murder there was always a plentiful display of dead mens heads beads in the cities and villages |