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Elated over the result, Mr. Johnston planned to try the fingerprint campaign elsewhere, hoped it would sweep...
...centuries the juridical systems of the civilized world have assumed that the natural handwriting of no two persons is the same. In most commercial transactions a signature is considered as good as a face or a fingerprint. Even the most skilful forgers find it next to impossible to perform in public. Thus successful forgeries of travelers' checks, which must be countersigned under scrutiny, are almost unknown...
Joseph Arthur Faurot, 59 and now retired from the New York City police force where in 1906 he introduced the standard system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service...
...blocks of all automatic pistols, such as the Colt employed by Sacco, are filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly...
...means them. Her husband is a thief. One night the socialite goes home to her apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates him. He sails for Europe, reconciled with his wife (Kay Francis) and determined to stop guzzling...