Show missing finger gave police needed clew finger prints on stolen goods are u vf more interest sometimes than footprints on the sands sanda of time by their aid the leeds england pollee police ob talked a clew to the thief been robbing handbags from the pews ot of st annes roman catholic cathedral when the finger prints were made clear by powdering a chemical dust dust on the ransacked bogs bags it was seen that the robbin robbing hand had only three fingers fing ers the light fingered thief was waa a finger short watch was I ept and a woman who entered the cathedral was noticed to have only three fingers on her right hand she sat down near her usual hunting ground by the side of a bag which had been left there when she got up to go the bag w was as empty but it had bad been a bait and the rest of this painful story was told at the pollee police court |