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Show STAMP OF IDENTITY Fingerprints Rcvcrs! Startling Talcs , under an alias in June, 1944, on a charge of false representation, Astoria, As-toria, Ore., authorities forwarded his prints to the FBI for a fingerprint finger-print check. There identification experts ex-perts determined they were identical identi-cal with those of Charles Sidney Worthington. Returned to West Virginia, Vir-ginia, the long-sought fugitive was sentenced to serve two years and six months in a federal penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Missing persons, victims of tragic accidents, amnesia cases and the like are often identified through a search of their fingerprints finger-prints through the FBI's files. When a right hand was found in the stomach of a shark caught at Miami Beach. Fla., the finger impressions im-pressions were forwarded to the FBI. They were found to be identi cal with those of a young Texan who had enlisted in the U. S. naval reserve. The tanker on which he had been assigned had been sunk off the coast of Florida. Ease Father's Doabts. Arrangements were made recently re-cently for a harried father to visit the FBI war casualty section. The father, although notified of his son's death in action during the battle for Southern France in 1944, refused to believe that the deceased had beer his son. An FBI fingerprint expert set his mind at rest. The father was shown his son's army fingerprint card and the prints taken of the deceased soldier. The expert gave a detailed explanation of the two forms and pointed out that they were identical. Loops, whorls and arches on" the ends of a person's 10 fingers fin-gers irrevocably spell out his identity, no two sets of fingerprints finger-prints in the world being identical. iden-tical. That is the basis on which the far-flung activities of the Federal Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation's identification iden-tification division are carried out. Many unusual stories lie behind the more than 103 million fingerprints finger-prints now on file in the FBI's identification iden-tification division. One set of inked finger impressions may tell of a long - sought murderer captured when his prints were checked with the FBI. Another set establishes the identity of an amnesia victim, restoring re-storing a loved one to his family. A third identifies a victim of a fatal plane crash. In addition to criminal prints the FBI's fingerprint files contain personal per-sonal identification prints, army, navy, marine, civil service and alien prints. Daily, thousands of new prints are being forwarded to the identification division by local law enforcement agencies. Many Strange Cases. The story behind the fingerprint card of Charles Sidney Worthington Is illustrative of the many strange angles encountered by FBI fingerprint finger-print experts in making identifications. identifi-cations. Wanted for violation of the theft from interstate shipment statute. Worthington had been a fugitive since 1934. When he was arrested |
