The Pyromaniacs ...

Fire Marshal Whitcomb has been pretty bi y taking testimony in regard to fires lately. and while speaking about examining witnesees the other day he mentioned several curious thlngs he had noticed. He says that in every case where he has discovered a pyromaniac he has had his suspicions of the person's guilt aroueed by a peculiar smlle which plays around the mouth of the guilty one when under examination. It is hardly a smüe, rather a peculiar puckering of the corners of the mouth, an expression almost indefinable, but it seems to mean, "Well, I'm too smart for you to calch me, anyhow." The marshal says he can recall a dozen caees where he noticed this smile and at the time had no other cause to suspect a witness, yet by following these smiling ones he has obtained the most couvincing testimony of their guilt and almost invariably confession from the guilty ones