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"A 'Thumbograph, my lord," said he, "is a book, like this, in which foolish people collect the thumb-prints of their more foolish acquaintances." He passed the volume up to the judge, who turned over the leaves curiously and then nodded to the witness. "Yes. She said she had them all in a 'Thumbograph." "Then she fetched from a drawer a small red-covered book which she showed to me.
"You may have seen on the bookstalls and in shop windows an appliance called a 'Thumbograph, or some such name, consisting of a small book of blank paper for collecting the thumb-prints of one's friends, together with an inking pad." "I have seen those devices of the Evil One," said Thorndyke, "in fact, I have one, which I bought at Charing Cross Station."
He did his best to forget it, but he looked so guilty when Captain Perez returned at supper time that that individual suspected something, made his friend confess, and, a little later when Captain Eri came in, the envelope, bearing many thumb-prints, was propped up against the sugar bowl in the middle of the table. "We didn't open it, Eri," said Perez proudly.
The inking-slab was rolled afresh for each impression, and, after each, the thumb was cleansed with petrol and thoroughly dried; and when the process was completed and the prisoner led back to the dock, the twenty squares on the paper were occupied by twenty thumb-prints, which, to my eye, at any rate, were identical in character.
Sylvester shrugged his shoulders to indicate that proof could go no further. Goldberger took back the photographs from the foreman of the jury and ranged them before him on the table. "Now, Mr. Sylvester," he said, "did you notice any correspondence between these prints?" "Yes," answered the witness, in a low voice; "the thumb-prints on both robes were made by the same hand."
Nash, who had listened with manifest satisfaction to the evidence, stepped into the box with all his original confidence restored. His selection of the true and the false thumb-prints was practically identical with that of Mr. Singleton, and his knowledge of this fact led him to state his conclusions with an air that was authoritative and even dogmatic.
Now it was, naturally, these nephews in whom the police were chiefly interested, seeing that they alone had had the handling of the keys, and considerable pressure was brought to bear upon Mr. Hornby to have the thumb-prints taken.
Investigations and questionings did no good, and at last the local inspector decided to take the thumb-prints of all concerned and refer them to the central office of the province.
Thumb-Print Method of Identification Absolute Now Brought to a High State of Perfection Will Eventually Be Used in All Banks Certified Checks and Also Drafts with Thumb-Print Signatures Absolute Accuracy of a Thumb-Print Identification Assured A Thumb-Print in Wax on Sealed Packages Its Use an Advantage on Bankable Paper of All Kinds How Strangers Are Easily Identified Bankers, Merchants and Business Men Protected by This System Full Particulars as to How Thumb-Prints Are Made Can be Printed by Anyone in a Few Minutes How and When to Place Your Thumb-Print on Bankable Paper Finger-Prints as Reliable as Thumb-Prints Use to Which This System Could Be Put Thumb and Finger Tips Do Not Change From Birth to Death Department of Justice at Washington Has Established a Bureau of Criminal Registry Using the Thumb-Print System Thumb-Print System Said to Be a Chinese Invention Its Use Spreading Rapidly How to Secure Thumb-Print Impression Without Knowledge of Party An Interesting and Valuable Study.
The police, of course, when they found that there was so simple a means of identification as a thumb-mark, wished to take thumb-prints of all the employees in the works; but this Mr. Hornby refused to sanction rather quixotically, as it seems to me saying that he would not allow his nephews to be subjected to such an indignity.
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