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Updated: June 15, 2025
Reuben Hornby, and is, in fact, his thumb-print beyond any possible doubt." "Is there any possibility," asked Thorndyke, "that the paper bearing the thumb-print could have been introduced by any person?" "No," answered the lawyer. "It is quite impossible. The paper on which the mark was found was a leaf from Mr. Hornby's memorandum block.
Jim stood on the hearth rug and glanced at each of the three men seated before him, his gaze finally resting on the Secretary's face. "At first," he said, "I merely wanted to build the dam. I called it the Thumb-print that I would leave on the map, that should be emblematic of the old trail-making Puritan.
I compared them with the photograph that I had with me and discovered that the print of the left thumb of Reuben Hornby was in every respect identical with the thumb-print shown in the photograph." "What did you do then?" "I asked Mrs. Hornby to lend me the 'Thumbograph' so that I might show it to the Chief of the Finger-print Department, to which she consented.
Singleton examined his notes and replied "The thumb-print on square one is evidently a forgery, as is also number two, though it is a passable imitation. Three and four are genuine; five is an obvious forgery. Six is a genuine thumb-print; seven is a forgery, though a good one; eight is genuine; nine is, I think, a forgery, though it is a remarkably good imitation.
Twenty is certainly a genuine thumb-print." As Mr. Singleton's evidence proceeded, a look of surprise began to make its appearance on the judge's face, while the jury glanced from the witness to the notes before them and from their notes to one another in undisguised astonishment.
"The paper was lying face downwards on the bottom of the safe, and it was only when he picked it up and turned it over that Mr. Hornby discovered the thumb-print. Apparently the thief had taken hold of the parcel, with the paper on it, and the paper had afterwards dropped off and fallen with the marked surface downwards probably when the parcel was transferred to the other hand."
Hornby's horror and amazement when it was made clear that the print of her nephew Reuben's left thumb corresponded in every particular with the thumb-print that was found in the safe. "At this juncture Mr. Hornby arrived on the scene and was, of course, overwhelmed with consternation at the turn events had taken.
"You say that the blood found in the safe was defibrinated or artificially treated. What inference do you draw from that fact?" "I infer that it was not dropped from a bleeding wound." "Can you form any idea how such blood should have got into the safe?" "None whatever." "You say that the thumb-print is a remarkably distinct one. What conclusion do you draw from that?"
And then there is the further fact that the paper found in the safe had no loose fibre to account for the mark." "What is your explanation of the presence of defibrinated blood in the safe?" "It was probably used by the forger in making the thumb-print, for which purpose fresh blood would be less suitable by reason of its clotting.
So it happens that the red thumb-print resembled one of the two prints of which forgery was possible. "In the fourth place, the red thumb-print reproduces an accidental peculiarity of the 'Thumbograph' print. Now, if the red thumb-print is a forgery, it must have been made from the 'Thumbograph' print, since there exists no other print from which it could have been made.
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