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Show TELL TALE THUMB. H riNOEtt MArtKS USED IN CVI- H DENCE IN COUtrr. IbbssssS The (lo left tj h Mnrtlrrer of Itr. jBBaBV Tjl.r In l:nlaml laj Vet Ilnalla la aPEI Ilia Arrral anil Contltllon Some KUM NotaMa L'aiea. RflvS sZs NK ot tho most IHtiaW ,-" 7 mysterious crimes IflEan r fflllx 111 w'l,cl1 hnro oc" iHB if- Mill jll cnnsi ln Hngtand B9I I - SitlXiZJ ns Iholllackhcatrt OK! J rcSSricvl murder. All tho en- INll I VlVVW! tk1" o' Scotland nffiai lV$A(vi ,nr'1 nnT0 ,or OTf r Mttr ( WWRfl wel t,n d"01 aVRfU VmII ed to tho solution HsM 'jj) ot tho mystery. HS Hero waa a lady. HaO Mrs. Tyler, living In Kldbrookpark Bfl road, strangled to death without ap- Hfll parent motive. She had no known en- BK emles, nnd robbery apparently was not HHJ tho object of her assailant HHJ As It to add to tha weird features ot HHJ this case la the fact that the police HHJ have only one clew to the Identity ot HHj the murderer. That clew la n set ol HHJ finger prints. Tho murderer, his hands H stained with the blood ot his victim, left upon the window pano ot Mrs, Ty- tor's house, a clear, distinct lmpres- HHJ slon of his thumb. HJ Thla has been photographed and very H much enlarged by tho Scotland yard HB police. Should they arrest tbo real man but lack sufficient evldonco upon which to secure his conviction, this HH thumb mark alono would, according to the leachlnga ot modern aclcncc, bo suf- HH flclenl to warrant his sentence to death, HJ Thumb mark Identification has now been raised to a science. In this work the Scotland yard officials have taken H a lending part It waa at Scotland yard ! that tho Importance ot thumb marks and finger prlnta In just such esses as HJ this was first fully realized. At Scot- land yard there Is a fine collection ot HJ finger prints ot criminals and many ot HB flclala who aro highly skilled In their decipherment II hss been practically. dcmonstrsled that no two human HB beings alive have thumbs which are Identical or even resemble each other HJ In the formation of tha whorl and Hj capillary ridges of the skin. It has HJ been shown, while n man's faco may HJ change, while his voice may alter and HJ his handwriting may undergo modlfl- HH cations, that from childhood to old age HJ tho ridges of his thumbs and fingers re- HJ miln without alteration. HH Sir. W. J. llerschel and Francis Uol- H ton, F. It. H., are the leading English HH authorities on this subject. In n re- HJ roarkablo work embodying the result HH ot much patient study Mr, llalton has HH mm? Jmk I MltS, TYLISIL shown by official records of the govern- HJ ment ot India that tbo finger prints ot HJ a number of Indian natives taken after H a lapse of fourteen years wero abso- M lutely unchanied except by small cubs HJ and other artificial means. Out ot HS many thousands of finger nrlnta which HS. hnvs been taken an,' oiefuliy exam- H Ined no twn havo ev been found that HH were even spproxlmatcly similar, IHsa! So well established Is tho fact that) HH thumb marks and finger prints are tha HH surest methods ot Identification that Bfl thla system has been adopted by mora HHl than one government. United Suite HB. officials at Ban Krnnclsro, acting un- HV der the Oeary law, take thumb mark HB. of Chinamen leaving America and la- HH tending to return, Tbey also take pho- HB togrnphs ot the Chinamen, but much HB more reliance is placed upon the thumb HH prints than upon lbs pictures. HJ The Scotland yard officials are now HH bent upon the solution of the Illock- HB heath murder mystery, and are boiler- HB ed to be deep In the study ot thumbs H and fingers. The moment some per- M son Is arrested under suspicion ot complicity In this mysterious crime It H Is bellived that his guilt or Innocence HHJ may be established by the thumb anil H finger marks which he left upon tho HBJ window pane. HHJ |
