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Are you prepared to furnish proof that this is the case?" "Yes. I am prepared to execute a counterfeit of the prisoner's thumb-print in the presence of the Court." "And do you say that such a counterfeit would be indistinguishable from the original, even by the experts?" "I do." Anstey turned towards the judge.
Hence we have the striking fact that the red thumb-print is an exact replica including accidental peculiarities of the only print from which a forgery could have been made.
The thumb had apparently been put down on one of the drops and then, while still wet with blood, had been pressed on the paper in taking hold of it or otherwise." "Well, and what next?" "Well," said the lawyer, fidgeting in his chair, "to make a long story short, the thumb-print has been identified as that of Mr. Reuben Hornby." "Ha!" exclaimed Thorndyke. "The plot thickens with a vengeance.
Singleton's office," and he conducted us along a corridor and into a large, barely-furnished room, where we found a sedate-looking gentleman seated at a large writing table. "How-d'ye-do, doctor?" said the latter, rising and holding out his hand. "I can guess what you've come for. Want to see that thumb-print, eh?"
The witness took the paper and examined it attentively, first with the naked eye and then with a pocket-lens. "I see," said he, "two blood-marks and a print, apparently of a thumb. Of the two marks, one is a blot, smeared slightly by a finger or thumb; the other is a smear only. Both were evidently produced with quite liquid blood. The thumb-print was also made with liquid blood."
But if we leave the thumb-print out of the question, the probabilities evidently point to John Hornby, since he, admittedly, had access to the diamonds, whereas there is nothing to show that the others had. The thumb-print, however, transfers the suspicion to Reuben; but yet, as your theory makes evident, it does not completely clear John Hornby.
I need not follow the case further, since the details will appear in the evidence, but I may tell you that, in effect, it has been made clear, beyond all doubt, that the thumb-print on that paper was the thumb-print of the prisoner, Reuben Hornby."
A failure and a second trial would have destroyed the accidental appearance, and might have aroused suspicion." "You have made some enlarged photographs of the thumb-prints, have you not?" "Yes. I have here two enlarged photographs, one of the 'Thumbograph' print and one of the red thumb-print.
"We'll be a bit cautious and cook on the alcohol stove to-night." But when he went to the spring for water, he gave a cry of dismay. In the soft ground by the spring basin was a footprint exactly like that they had traced so painfully in the other valley. The Telltale Thumb-Print More serious than ever was the ranger's face when Charley showed him the telltale footprint. "It's bad!" he said.
The report of the experts is that the thumb-print does not agree with any of the thumb-prints of criminals in their possession; that it is a very peculiar one, inasmuch as the ridge-pattern on the bulb of the thumb which is a remarkably distinct and characteristic one is crossed by the scar of a deep cut, rendering identification easy and infallible; that it agrees in every respect with the thumb-print of Mr.
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