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When we produced the thumb-prints in the putty and in the clay and compared them with Lumley's thumbs, he made a clean breast of everything. It won't surprise you to learn that he set the previous fires in this virgin timber. He wants to be state's evidence." "Excellent!" cried Charley. "They won't burn any more forests or rob any more cabins. By the way, Mr.
"Oh! I wish they would make haste," whispered Juliet. "Do you think they will be able to tell the real from the false thumb-prints?" "I can't say," I replied; "but we shall soon know. They looked all alike to me." Mr.
Still, to quell all rising doubts, he rubbed his right thumb on the lock, and made a second impression. The daylight was now insufficient, so he turned on the electricity, and compared them. Slowly, the scars deepened till they were the tint of cedar. Death's head itself could not have fascinated him more than the dissimilarity of these two thumb-prints.
"Exactly," interrupted Anstey. "And you recollect quite clearly that your nephew Walter gave you the 'Thumbograph' on that occasion?" "Oh, distinctly; though, you know, he is really my husband's nephew " "Yes. And you are sure that he took the thumb-prints?" "Quite sure." "And you are sure that you never saw the 'Thumbograph' before that?" "Never. How could I? He hadn't brought it."
I subsequently made a systematic comparison of the marks in the two thumb-prints; I found that the dimensions of the mark were proportionally the same in each that is to say, the mark in the 'Thumbograph' print had an extreme length of 26/1000 of an inch and an extreme breadth of 14.5/1000 of an inch, while that in the red thumb-mark was one-fortieth larger in each dimension, having an extreme length of 26.65/1000 of an inch and an extreme breadth of 14.86/1000 of an inch; that the shape was identical, as was shown by superimposing tracings of greatly enlarged photographs of each mark on similar enlargements of the other; and that the mark intersected the ridges of the thumb-print in the same manner and at exactly the same parts in the two prints."
I explained to her what was wanted to clear her nephews from the suspicion that rested on them, and she then said that she could dispose of those suspicions at once, for she could show me the thumb-prints of the whole family: she had them all in a 'Thumbograph." "A 'Thumbograph'?" repeated the judge. "What is a 'Thumbograph'?" Anstey rose with the little red-covered volume in his hand.
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.
"Stop a bit," said Kent, pausing to think a moment. "What about thumb-prints?" "Thumb-prints," said the Inspector. "Don't mention them. The house is full of them." "Any thumb-prints of Italians with that peculiar incurvature of the ball of the thumb that denotes a Sicilian brigand?" "There were three of those," said Inspector Edwards gloomily. "No, Mr. Kent, the thumb stuff is no good."
He always said that pictures were no good future disguises could make them useless; 'The thumb's the only sure thing, said he; 'you can't disguise that. And he used to prove his theory, too, on my friends and acquaintances; it always succeeded. I went on telling fortunes. Every night I shut myself in, all alone, and studied the day's thumb-prints with a magnifying-glass.
I propose to make on ten of the squares counterfeits of the prisoner's thumb-mark, and to fill the remaining ten with real thumb-marks. I propose that the experts should then examine the paper and tell the Court which are the real thumb-prints and which are the false." "That seems a fair and efficient test," said his lordship. "Have you any objection to offer, Sir Hector?"
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