12. PERCY LEFROY MAPLETON, WHO KILLED MR. GOLD ON THE BRIGHTON LINE.
No. [13] is the face of one of the most cold-blooded poisoners that ever lived. Under the guise of love or friendship he killed his many victims for the sake of gold, coolly smiling at the torture he inflicted, and nicely calculating the effect of each dose of poison. How could anyone have trusted such a face as this? The immense development of the face below the brow, its enormous width between the cheek-bones, the absolute and sickening plausibility of the whole expression, the great lower jaw, the cruel callous mouth (look at this mouth closely), and the peculiarly uncanny light blue eyes, are a collection of danger-signals that are rarely seen in one face. But his victims were probably deceived by this wretch's fat, easy, and bland manner—they stifled their instinct, and were duly poisoned.
13. WM. PALMER, THE RUGELY POISONER.
The lower jaw of No. [14] is quite Napoleonic in its strength and unscrupulousness, and this face carries its warning with it. So also does No. [15], which has a specially cruel and brutal mouth, widely-placed cheek-bones, coarse wide nostrils, great width of head between the ears, and cruel blue eyes.
