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Updated: June 11, 2025
'Why, Auntie, she said, the "Thumbograph" is in the drawer; somebody must have been meddling with your writing table. I went with her to the drawer, and there, sure enough, was the 'Thumbograph. Somebody must have taken it out and put it back while we were away." "Who could have had access to your writing table?" "Oh, anybody, because, you see, the drawers were never locked.
The accidental S-shaped mark in the 'Thumbograph' print is accounted for by the condition of the paper; the occurrence of this mark in the red thumb-print is not accounted for by any peculiarity of the paper, and can be accounted for in no way, excepting by assuming the one to be a copy of the other.
"'A hair of the dog that bit him. The 'Thumbograph' is to be applied as a remedy on the principle that similia similibus curantur. Well?" "When I arrested him, I administered the usual caution, and the prisoner then said, 'I am innocent. I know nothing about the robbery." The counsel for the prosecution sat down, and Anstey rose to cross-examine.
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.
Hornby had seen the "Thumbograph," in fact his own mark was in it, and so would have had his attention directed to the importance of finger-prints in identification. He might have kept the marked paper for future use, and, on the occasion of the robbery, pencilled a dated inscription on it, and slipped it into the safe as a sure means of diverting suspicion.
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.
Jervis the 'Thumbograph' and he can hand it to Dr. Thorndyke." "Of course I will," said Mrs. Hornby; "instantly; and you need not return it, Dr. Jervis. When you have finished with it, fling it into the fire. I wish never to see it again." But I had been considering the matter, and had come to the conclusion that it would be highly indiscreet to take the book out of Mrs.
Thorndyke will be very much interested to see this little book of yours," said I, with a view to stemming the tide of her reflections. "Oh, the 'Thumbograph," she replied. "Yes, I will let him have it with the greatest pleasure. I am so glad he wishes to see it; it makes one feel hopeful to know that he is taking so much interest in the case. Would you believe it, Dr.
The conclusion is thus inevitable that the red thumb-print is a photo-mechanical reproduction of the 'Thumbograph' print. "But there is yet another point. If the red thumb-print is a forgery reproduced from the 'Thumbograph' print, the forger must at some time have had access to the 'Thumbograph. Now, you have heard Mrs.
"I then took the 'Thumbograph' to Scotland Yard and showed it to Mr. Singleton, who agreed that the print of the left thumb of Reuben Hornby was in every respect identical with the thumb-print on the paper found in the safe. On this I applied for a warrant for the arrest of Reuben Hornby, which I executed on the following morning. I told the prisoner what I had promised Mrs.
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