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Show HIS LIFE DEPENDS ON DESTROYING PUDD'NHEAD WILSON THEORY ... . . . - :, : - r $-,,m ' ; V; l:fF Vr Pit . '::v'i iOENTJFI CATION - ' ,'. 'A& ' AKS?-' s " BXPERT FINGERPRINTS ,, ' X:;T';' . ', CHICAGO, Nov. IS Thomas Jennings Jen-nings never read "Pudd nheud Wil-xon," Wil-xon," and uow he regrets It. A jury declared he killed Clarence Hlller, and Jennings' only chance to escape the gallows lg the faint hope that his attorneys will secure enough experts to satisfy the higher courts that a man's finger prints can be duplicated. Hlller was chief clerk In the freight ofllce of the Rock Island roll road' in Chicago. Jennings, aceoiding to the prosecution, entered Hiller'n home znd killed him. For weeks tho police kittled with the case, but gained no Lf-Hdway toward convicting the ac-i ac-i iised man. William M. Evans, son or Captain Michael E. Evans, head of the Identification bureau, took up the invbtery. On a porch post at the Hlller homo he found some finger prints. These were photographed with care, and the finger prints of tho accused man were taken and compared. com-pared. Evans declared they are exact ex-act duplicates, and tho jury apreed with him. Judge Kavanagh since tho conviction of Jeuninga Is not so suro. A doubt has been raised in his mind that perhaps a man's finger prints can bo du-plicated notwithstanding the opinion of the experts. The attorneys for the convicted man are asklnsthat people, interested in Justice send In prints of their finger marks. , By so-curing so-curing ihousauda of finger prints they hope to ahow that a man's finger marks can be duplicated Jennings Is due to be hanged during the first week in December. |