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Show N. y. SHERLOCK SOLVES MYSTERIES WITH CLAY SKULL BUILT ! UP INTO HEAD IS IDENTIRED Retired Policeman Devises Method of Solving Death Mysteries ALMOST LIKE LIFE Resemblance in One Case So : Close Friend of Victim Faints B) I D IRD II PHIERRY NEW YORK. .May 10. Crimlnolo-gists Crimlnolo-gists are acclaiming Captain Grant Williams ai the dlscovetrer of a new-science new-science that will check crime and solve countless murder mysteries. W illiams l the scientific Sherlock lluli:io-: who just reconstructed a murdered woman's skull so successfully successful-ly that her identity wn disclosed Thl- is the second time Williams has taken a w atlier-discrdored. un-recognTz&ble un-recognTz&ble fragment t bon and built Clay around it until he bad rc-conatructed rc-conatructed a perfect likeness Of the person to whom the bone belonged in ! life. "Everybody hooted." Williams says, "and called It luck. But 1 think tills second success lias proved my theory sound: ) bold that a skull qan be re-cpnstrucjed re-cpnstrucjed so faithfully, simply by following the contour Of bones, that identification Is certain." month af : the- body of an un-I un-I Identified woman was found on Hav-erstraW Hav-erstraW inoumaln, N J.. Williams re-: re-: bitill the face and bend without even j knowing the names nf mis-slng girls the police were trying to trace.' A wo-! wo-! man identified the Clay-covered skull as a likeness of her mlselnff sister, Lil-! Lil-! I la n White 11 PIR6T I l I Williams, retired pOllcemkn, six years ago rebiuli the skull of the unidentified un-identified victim of a Brooklyn murder mur-der nivstcry. Tbc ipurdered man was proven ;o be Dominick Lairossa. Tlie re( un itructad bkull was so lifelike that the man who made the identification, a friend of the victim, fainted! "It is a great stride in world crlm-Inology1 crlm-Inology1 says Mrs. Mary Hamilton. New York policewoman who Interested Interest-ed Captain Williams in the Haver-ttav Haver-ttav case. "A modeltnz laboratory, using Qaptttln Williams' methods, could solve ii. any murder mysteries.' a.nd clear up missing person casea" The famous Dorothy Arnold case might have been solved years ago, it was pointed out. under such a system of scientific Identification. 100 UN KJTOM S 0KAD "New York alone baa 40U unidentlr fled dead In a year " say.s Williams. if we had the means and facilities to reconstruct squlls probably nine-tenths nine-tenths of these mysteries could be solved." Williams stumble I on Squll won-I atructrpn by acctdeni w'.i:!.- working on j ;hr- LarOssa case. "Rubbing my forehead one day, I noticed the layer of flesn was extremely extreme-ly thin." he said. "The same was true i" foufid of the entire race, with the possible exception of the cheeks. I decided it would be easy to ouiid a face out of clay by closely following : the bone contours "First I determine the approximate ir-.. ,y examining the teeth If there' is hair on the skull I add false hair of that color. Building an ear is pun -Iv speculative but the ear i-- not o Important in gettln-j; the photographic . outlines of a face. The color rif eyes I sometimes may be determined from lh hair l use glas' eyes, and build up evebrows of the same color ns the hair. WOMEN EASIER ' Whether a man wore n mustache or H beard or was baldheuded is guess I work. In reconstructing a woman's skull the difficulties are fewer. In building a man's sKull as .n the I-ir- ossa case, a hat or cap can ba used to avoid the question of baldness. "A wad of cotton Is used In either, cheek, but otherwise the lines and lumps In the bcu11 can be followed 1 faithfully In modeling a thin layer of' Clay The soft pad of the chin is built up with very little padding, while ; the shape of the nose can be deter-mined deter-mined from the lines in the bkull at ruclure." Williams, after his first experiment, 1 six years age. took up the study of phyalogonomy, oranlology and crani-j ometry to aid him In his work. He Is I an authority on finger prints and other oth-er forma of Identification Tie has! lectures on these Bltbjecta and now Is! writing a book about itV'n hough only mlddh -- I, W llllaina is on the retired List, ui:c to illness. He established the Bureau --f dentlfi-I cation at New York police hcadquart- j ors In 1'.13. after th body of the WOll , knpwn Timothy D. Sullivan killed In mo accident, lay In the New York' ni..f' ' ii .la .. lie nls.. reuigunized ' tho Bureau of Missing Pt.-soni. i l I |