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Source: Buffalo Courier Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Identification of Star Criminals Is Interesting Work” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 2 October 1904 Volume number: 69 Issue number: 276 Part/Section: 5 Pagination: 37, 44 (excerpt below includes only page 44) |
| Citation |
| “Identification of Star Criminals Is Interesting Work.” Buffalo Courier 2 Oct. 1904 v69n276: part 5, pp. 37, 44. |
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| Keywords |
| Leon Czolgosz (photographs); George T. Jones (public statements); Leon Czolgosz. |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; George T. Jones; William McKinley; Joseph T. Whitwell. |
| Notes |
| On page 37 Joseph T. Whitwell is identified as being “in charge of the Buffalo Police Department’s Bertillon system of measuring and photographing criminals.” |
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Identification of Star Criminals Is Interesting Work [excerpt]
In the case of Czolgosz, the assassin
of President McKinley, Supt. Jones and Photographer Whitwell had the subject
in the chair at 11 o’clock in the morning and the pictures were sent out on
the Empire State Express at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The necessity in that
case was the supplying of the newspapers throughout the East. In discussing
the photographing of Czolgosz Supt. Jones said the other day:
“He was the only subject we ever had who was actually
pleased to have his picture taken. He really enjoyed it. He posed just as I
told him to and even expressed an interest in having a good likeness. It disgusted
me and I spoke to him about it and I might add that it was the only time that
I was ever unfavorably impressed by the easiness of taking a criminal’s picture.
Czolgosz answered that he had done his duty in assassinating the President and
he was not ashamed to have his picture taken in connection with the crime.”