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...gendarmes, flying squads, villagers and passing tourists, milling around the Drummond camp, had obliterated all possible clues. Footprint experts, fingerprint experts and bloodhounds were unable to pick up a lead, though Parisian headlines feared what the unsolved murder might do to French tourism. It seemed likely that the only record of the Drummond family's last hours would remain Elizabeth's entry in her diary of the evening before: "The moon is high and shining. We are camping. I have just done something I always wanted to do. All alone I went swimming in the river-like...
Clues & Proof. Combing old battlefields from the Pusan beachhead to the present battlefront are hundreds of officers, soldiers and civilians with special skills-fingerprint experts from the FBI, men with detective experience, trained undertakers, X-ray technicians, doctors, dentists, chemists, anthropologists, clerks. At Kure, the lab staff looks for clues in laundry and dry-cleaning marks, scars, teeth, old bone fractures, even tattoos...
...because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying glass and fingerprint powder. When he had finished, he ordered the church unlocked. Glumly, Padre Carlos Galves rounded up a group of helpers, went into the basilica to prepare for the next day's Mass...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
...Cambridge police car arrived at 8 p.m. for a 20-minute stay. It was reported that the police took the ransacked pocket-books to the Central Square station for fingerprints, planning to return later to fingerprint all Briggs Hall residents...