Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 14, 17 January 1894 — The Murderer’s Hand. [ARTICLE]

The Murderer’s Hand.

A recent conference of French chiromanists laid down the following rules for telling a murderer or one likely to commit murder upon slightest provacation: He always has the troe pooee de hille, or “baldheaded thomb” —tbat is to say, the thumb has a round, bolboos appearance. It is also short, aud the uail is so abbreviated as to soggest the ' idea that the owner has the habit of gnawing in down to the flesh. The nail is deeply boried in the flesb, whieh rises on either side and extends moeh above the surface. A remarkable or abnormal development of the “Moont of Mars,” whieh, plaiuly speaking means a thickening of the ootside edge of the hand. Ohi-. omuuists say that persons with this mark, when in a passion, have rushes of blood tothe brain, whieh caose them to “secred.” He has the “scatfold sign”—a violeut and abropt cutting off of the “line of the head” (the one running across the palm) by the line ruuniug towards the fiogers from the wrist. The presenoe of bot three lines in the palm fthese occasionally reduced to two). and always of a ’ bright scarlet. Crooked and uneven, knotty i fingers, with broad tips, and nails very amall, ragged and un- * even. — St. LouU Hepnhlie.