Encyclopædia of human nature and physiognomy .. (1889)
Willis, A. E. (Alfred E.) · Chicago, Loomis & co. · leaf 207
ALLAN PINKERTON, The great and perhaps foremost detective in the United States;also author of The Expressman and the Detective. He has a large amount of vitality, good perceptives, and very large secretiveness.He can smell a thief a mile off, and knows how and where to look for him. The widthof the… … A CONFIDENCE MAN. Note the small, flat, half-shut form of the eye, and that peculiar, palavering, hood-wink, peeping sort of expression accompanying them. Also, the long, sharp nose, whichshows him to be long-headed, a planner and schemer; and the prominence in the centerof the nose proclaims him…
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