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Updated: June 17, 2025
Indeed, the improbability combined, of course, with possibility really adds to the achievement, for the dullest mind can perceive the obvious as, for instance, the importance of a finger-print.
It's been printed out, too, so there isn't much chance of identifying the writing. Anyhow, we'll have a look more closely at it when the finger-print people have done." He bent once more to his desk with the copy of the cipher. He knew the key, and it was not necessary to resort to an expert. By the time the chief inspector came back he had a neatly copied translation on his pad.
"There are some points of agreement," he remarked, "but more points of difference. Any points of difference are usually considered fatal to the finger-print theory. "We had to let the man go," concluded Burke. "We could have held the woman, but we let her go, too, because she was not the principal in the case. My men are shadowing the house now and have been ever since then.
If the system should be in use, the cashier signing the draft will not affix his signature to the paper until this imprint has been made in his presence. Then, with his attested finger-print on the face of the draft, the stranger in the city may go to the city bank, appearing at the window of the newest teller, if need be.
But now a rearrangement of the circumstances, apart from the finger-print, began to throw a new light on the matter. It would explain much if you, Mr. Grell, were shielding Lady Eileen. "I could think of no motive, however, and resolved to hold the matter over for the time being. Even if I had good cause for my suspicion, it was still essential to find you.
Their position suggested a left-hand clutch, though only a finger-print expert could definitely determine that point. Even if they were not, it was too far-fetched a supposition to imagine a man gripping his own arm hard enough to bruise it.
Sir Hector adjusted his glasses, turned over a page of his brief, and cast a steady and impressive glance at the jury. "I believe, Mr. Singleton," he said at length, "that you are connected with the Finger-print Department at Scotland Yard?" "Yes. I am one of the chief assistants in that department." "What are your official duties?"
What are the tips of a few fingers compared with life, liberty, wealth, and a beautiful woman? The first two sets of prints are different from the third because they are made by different finger-tips on the same man. The very core of the prints was changed. But the finger-print system is vindicated by the very ingenuity of the man who so cleverly has contrived to beat it."
It is, Inspector, what we call a composite type of finger-print in this case a combination of what is called the 'loop' and 'whorl' types." No sound broke the stillness save the sputtering of the oxygen on the calcium of the stereopticon. "The owner of the fingers from which these prints were made is in this room.
I want to see whether we can make anything of this. Let me have a little graphite, will you?" The finger-print expert took an envelope from his pocket and handed it to the superintendent. From it Foyle scattered fine black powder on the hilt. A little cry of satisfaction came from his lips as he blew the stuff away in a little dark cloud. Those in the room crowded around.
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