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...crooks. Director Hoover began to gather around him a new kind of cop: a bright young college graduate who owned either a law degree or a C.P.A.'s certificate. The first laboratory was set up, with one man and a few test tubes. The few scattered fingerprint files in existence were gathered together...
Residents of the two Radcliffe houses invaded last Thursday did not bring charges against Gallagher. Fingerprint tests on the second story window at 6 Acacia st. out of which the prowler jumped failed to establish Gallagher's guilt in the intrusion...
More Work to Do. In St. Louis, Detective Russell Schroeder arrived at the scene of a burglary, put his fingerprint kit down for a moment, presently found that somebody had stolen...
...evidence of the burnt hairs withered. The fingerprint which De Marigny was supposed to have left somewhere on the screen beside Sir Harry's bed became hopelessly confused with prints which might have been found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...
...Police said the murderer would have singed hairs from the fire. De Marigny submitted to a microscopic examination, was found to have singed hairs on arms, beard and head. He said he got them scalding chickens, lighting hurricane lamps. Police experts testified that a fingerprint identical with De Marigny's right little finger was found on a screen near Sir Harry's bed. De Marigny denied having been at Westbourne since March. De Marigny has never recalled what became of the shirt and socks he had on the day of the murder. Police testified that he had said...