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Show foun' 'nan using finger prints. Through there use the victim can J be identified in a very few moments. mo-ments. Musical numbers for the evening were furnished by Beth, Jean and Jess Greene. Mrs. Adair Bromley and Mrs. A. B. Allen were in charge of the arrangement for the meeting. Fingerprint Expert Speaks Here Richard Wootton, state fingerprint finger-print expert, was the speaker at the Junior Literary League meeting held in the City Hall Monday night. He discussed the subject -of fingerprinting finger-printing from a genealogical standpoint, stand-point, staling that the one .thing about an -individual which never changes ane his finger prints. No two printa'Jn the world are alike. In the geneaological field, Mr. Wot-ton Wot-ton stated, family records could be kept much more correctly through the use of linger prints. He showed interesting pictures of the first finger print ever to be taken tak-en in the state of Utah. The print was of the finger of a young criminal crimi-nal whose prints had been obtained when he was a boy. He was not found and arrested until he was an old man but his fingers still made the same impression as they had when he was a boy. Mr. Wootton brought out yery clearly that (the one thing about us that does ot change with the years are our finger prints. I In cases of amnesia no better j method of identification has been I |