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Updated: June 10, 2025
"You have arrested me without authority, and now you are trying to give me the third degree. You've got me here, and you may make the most of it until I can find a lawyer. Lock me up if you feel like it; and are willing to stand for the consequences." At this the three of them put their heads together and once more compared the thumb-prints.
On it were a number of distinct thumb-prints, now turned into solid brick by the action of the fire. The boys looked at each other questioningly and then at Mr. Morton. "It's a clever rogue who doesn't trip himself up somewhere," chuckled the ranger. "What happened is as clear as daylight. Collins and his companion found this clay while they were inspecting your camp.
Warders from Wormwood Scrubbs and Portland Prisons were there to swear to the identity of Abraham Brake, alias Lister, alias Bough, whose photographs, thumb-prints, and measurements an official from the Criminal Identification Department of Scotland Yard was prepared to place before the Court, for whose re-arrest, as a ticket-of-leave man who had failed to keep in proper touch with the Police, an officer with a warrant waited.
We got there in time for dinner; and I put our thumb-prints on the register of the most expensive hotel in the city.
"That was my night-dress," she said simply and without hesitation. "Go on, please, Mr. Tarling." He told her of the bloody thumb-prints upon the door of the bureau. "On your bed," he went on, "I found your dressing-case, half-packed." She swayed forward, and threw out her hands, groping blindly. "Oh, how wicked, how wicked!" she wailed "He did it, he did it!" "Who?" demanded Tarling.
Breakfast was laid at one end of the table, while at the other stood a microscope of the pattern used for examining plate-cultures of micro-organisms, on the wide stage of which was one of the cards bearing six thumb-prints in blood.
Singleton advanced hesitatingly to the table, I recalled the words that he had uttered in his room at Scotland Yard; evidently his scheme of the game that was to end in an easy checkmate, had not included the move that had just been made. "Mr. Singleton," said the judge, "here is a paper on which there are twenty thumb-prints.
"The detective took it to Scotland Yard that the finger-print experts might examine it and compare the two thumb-prints; and they wanted to keep it, but Mrs. Hornby was so distressed at the idea of its being used in evidence that they let her have it back.
It contained the thumb-prints of all the family and some of her friends." "Is this the book?" asked the judge, passing the volume down to the witness. The sergeant turned over the leaves until he came to one which he apparently recognised, and said "Yes, m'lord; this is the book. Mrs. Hornby showed me the thumb-prints of various members of the family, and then found those of the two nephews.
"Well, it seems that some months ago Mrs. Hornby, the wife of John Hornby, purchased one of these toys " "As a matter of fact," interrupted Reuben, "it was my cousin Walter who bought the thing and gave it to her." "Well, that is not material," said Mr. Hornby became possessed of one of these appliances and proceeded to fill it with the thumb-prints of her friends, including her two nephews.
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