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flaring ears, premature and deep wrinkles, small, sinister eyes sunk 

 back in their orbits, a hollowed flat nose, and small beard — in short, 

 he presented an extraordinary resemblance to Kavachol, as may be 

 seen from their portraits. 



The cranium was a little smaller than the normal, and the 

 upper part of the skull was much rounded and deformed, with a 

 cephalic index of 91 — considerably more rounded than the head 

 of Luceheni. The horizontal 



fold of the hand was of a .. .>.uc:'_ 



type much like that of Rava- 

 chol. 



I add that the biological 

 study, which was made di- 

 rectly, and therefore more 

 satisfactorily than was prac- 

 ticable with Caserio and Luc- 

 eheni, revealed a series of 

 very singular anomalies; a 

 touch six times more obtuse 

 than the normal — six milli- 

 metres on. the right, five on 

 the left; a remarkably blunt 

 sensitiveness to pain and dull 

 perception of location; an 

 extraordinarily reduced vis- 

 ual field, jDarticularly in the 

 left eye; a somewhat tremu- 

 lous handwriting, and slight 

 defects of articulation in 

 speech; and thin hair. There 

 was nothing very striking in 

 his affective nature. He spoke kindly of his parents, whom he 

 would be glad to see. But he had a blunt moral sense, and had 

 committed frequent thefts, especially against his family, so that he 

 had been put into a house of correction. And it was just while 

 he was still in this establishment, at sixteen years of age, that he 

 pretended to have been invited to attend a meeting of about thirty 

 anarchists at Brescia, where he was made to swear, kissing a dag- 

 ger, to kill the king. He described the room, and spoke of the 

 individual persons present, and then said that he thought no more 

 of the matter after he returned to the house; but a few days ago 

 it had come into his m.ind to go to the post oflace, and there he had 

 found a letter from the anarchists of Alexandria, urging him to 

 arm himself to kill the king. 



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