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Green had gone upstairs to find how Grant of the Finger-print Department had progressed in his scrutiny of the finger-prints on the advertisement. He found his specialist colleague with a big enlargement of the paper on which the advertisement had been written mounted on paste-board, and propped up in front of him, side by side with an enlargement of the prints found on the dagger.
Her sister slowly turned back the frill from her wrist and examined the scarlet stain of Bernard's finger-print. "Does it show so plainly? I hope other people haven't noticed. Bernard doesn't remember how strong his hands still are." "Doesn't care, you mean." "Do you want me quite naked?" said Laura. "Well, doesn't care, then." Yvonne was not accustomed to the smart of pity.
"We have caught a prisoner, but the body is gone, and we can't even show that he was an accomplice." "What were you writing?" I asked Craig, endeavouring to change the subject to one more promising. "Just copying the peculiar shape of those marks on Phelps' arm. Perhaps we can improve on the finger-print method of identification. Those were the marks of human teeth."
"Yes, sir; by the right hand. Again I have a print of the thumb and one of the third finger." He passed the photographs over, and again Goldberger handed them on to the jury. "Mr. Sylvester," said the coroner, "you consider the finger-print method of identification a positive one, do you not?" "Absolutely so." "Even with a single finger?"
The process that I have described is, in all essentials, that which is used in the reproduction of pen-and-ink drawings, and any of the hundreds of workmen who are employed in that industry could make a relief-block of a finger-print, with which an undetectable forgery could be executed." "You have asserted that the counterfeit finger-print could not be distinguished from the original.
I didn't understand half the talk. But Mr. Meadows was very clever. Sir Henry said he was a charming person. Anybody who could discuss the whorls of the Galton finger-print tests was just then a charming person to Sir Henry." The girl paused a moment, then she went on "I suppose things had gone so for about a fortnight when your sister, Lady Monteith, wrote that she had seen Sir Henry with us Mr.
"I need hardly point out to you that the reference made by the learned counsel for the prosecution to far-fetched scientific theories is somewhat misleading. The only evidence of a theoretical character was that of the finger-print experts. The evidence of Dr. Rowe and of Dr. Thorndyke dealt exclusively with matters of fact.
"I shall first satisfy myself that the suspected thumb-print is identical in character with that of Reuben Hornby of which, however, I have very little doubt, for the finger-print experts may fairly be trusted in their own speciality." "And then?"
The laws of chance are as much against two of them having the same markings as they are against the thumb prints of two human subjects being identical. The firing-pin theory, which was used in a famous case in Maine, is just as infallible as the finger-print theory. In this case when we find the owner of the gun making an 'L' mark we shall have the murderer."
"Would there be no means at all of detecting the difference between a forged finger-print and the genuine original?" "None whatever; for the reason that there would be no difference to detect." "But you have stated, quite positively, that the thumb-print on this paper is a forgery.
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