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Updated: June 15, 2025
Only a few seconds are required for the operation. In giving big checks merchants and bankers would be protected by the thumb-print system. A merchant could place the print of his right index finger to the left of his signature on a check. The bank would have a print, together with the merchant's signature on file.
But the existence of the thumb-print narrows the inquiry down to Reuben or some person having access to his finger-prints." "Yes, I see. Then you consider my theory of John Hornby as the perpetrator of the robbery as quite a tenable one?" "Quite," replied Thorndyke. "I have entertained it from the first; and the new facts that you have gathered increase its probability.
Thorndyke drew a stamp from its compartment, inked it on the slab, and pressed it neatly on the square indicated, leaving there a sharp, clear thumb-print. The process was repeated on nine other squares, a different stamp being used for each impression.
Singleton accordingly drew from his pocket an enlarged photograph of the thumb-print and a magnifying glass, with the aid of which he explored the bewildering array of prints on the paper before him; and as he proceeded I remarked with satisfaction that his expression became more and more dubious and worried.
"You consider," Sir Hector proceeded, "that the identity of this thumb-print admits of no doubt?" "It admits of no doubt whatever," replied Mr. Singleton. "Can you explain to us, without being too technical, how you have arrived at such complete certainty?"
Near to it were two or three smaller smears and a remarkably distinct and clean print of a thumb. Thorndyke gazed intently at the paper for a minute or two, scrutinising the thumb-print and the smears in turn, but making no remark, while Mr. Singleton watched his impassive face with expectant curiosity. "Not much difficulty in identifying that mark," the official at length observed.
Then he replaced the spectroscope and lamp in the case and brought forth the micrometer a slip of rather thin glass about three inches by one and a half which he laid over the thumb-print in the place of the upper plate of glass. Having secured it in position by the clips, he moved it about, comparing its appearance with that of the lines on the large photograph, which he held in his hand.
But with the thumb-print in use, as it might be, such an organization would be unnecessary. As between bank and bank, this use of the fingerprint in bank papers of large face value is especially applicable. A draft for $100,000 or $1,000,000 may be worth more consideration of the banks concerned than the penmanship of signer and countersigner of the paper.
R.W. McClaughry, chief of the bureau of identification in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., is one of the most expert in the thumb-print method of identification in this country, having been schooled at Scotland Yards in London, where the method first was brought to its present state of perfection. Mr.
The unidentified bearer of the draft in the city may have no acquaintance able to identify him. If he presents the draft at the windows of the big bank, hoping to satisfy the institution, and is turned away, he feels hurt. By the thumb-print method he might have his money in a moment.
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