Show IDEA ORIGINATED IN ORIENT Print Finger System Claimed to Have Been in Use In Far East for Many Years I The print finger-print system that sleuths all 1111 over oyer the world have successfully tully used In catching desperate criminals was the Invention of orientals either Chinese or Japanese according to de Filippi writing m to Nature The lh discovery was originally credited to Sir W. W Herschel Ina inta parliamentary blu blue book but a Japanese proved the case for the tho East Enst No one In the controversy quoted ud Rashid-ud ud Rashid who wrote about the system In use in Cathay even in fn his day It was a print finger-print system s stem of a sort ort although not like that In use today Th There re was no blackening of the hands prior to the taking o of the Impression but rather the hand was placed on paper and traced by the person person person per per- son taking the print The hands of contracting parties were alwa always os placed en an n deeds In In those days D DC- DC Filippi says that this ancient system Is worthy of investigation today today to to- day Jay as study of the drawings shows a distinct difference in the outlines of fingers of the hands of different individuals individuals in In- di in the len length th of the fingers the relative distance made by the axis of or th the thumb and the axis of the Ule first finger and in many other ways |