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Show hoarded an electric car bound for' Chicago. Detectives who wore sent lo the HUler home immediately after the murder found the hand imprint on the porch railing. . . FINGER PRINTS PROVE BIS GUILT CHICAGO. Nov. 10 Marking the first conviction on finger print evidence evi-dence in the history of this country, Gliomas Jennings, a negro, was today found gulMy by a Jury in the criuil-n criuil-n court of the murder of Clarenoe llillcr on the night of Sept. 19. The jurors felt so confident of the g.illt of Jennings that the first ballet bal-let resulted In a unanimous conviction, convic-tion, with eleven of the jurors de-nanding de-nanding the death penalty. On the third ballot the death sentence was r-ade unanimous. Counsel for Jennings asked for a in vv trial on the ground that the finger fin-ger print evidence should not have been allowed. As a result It Is probable prob-able that the supreme court will bo asked to rule upon the use of such tvidence In criminal cases. Judge Kaanaugh, who presided at the trial, declared when objection vas first made to the evidence presented pre-sented by the state that, in his opinion, opin-ion, the murderer of Miller wrote his signature when he rested bis hand on a freshly painted porch railing at the HSllcr home. Following the murder of lliller ibis porch railing was sawed off and taken tak-en to detective headqm:i icrs. where photographs were made of the finger jiints. These photographs were enlarged en-larged ami following Jennings' arrest were compared with new Imprints of his left hand rn.ftle at the police bureau of identification Finger print experts testified that t.icre were 33 points of similarity on tho first three fingers of the left hand or the murderer of lliller and that of Jennings lliller, who was chief clerk In ihe CMcago offices of the Bock Island railroad, was shot and killed In the fiont hall of his resilence at Washington Wash-ington Heights. II) , by a negro burglar, bur-glar, lliller had encountered tbe burglar bur-glar in an upper hall The two grappled grap-pled and fought their way down a htalrway to the first floor. When the police took bold of the Investigation It was only known that I n negro had killed Uiller. Jennings 1 v, a? arrested three-quarti-rs of a rnilo I roni the Hiller home, where he bad |