. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. Yard, London.) These wonderful reproductions from Scotland Yard are doubtlessfrom among the best ones that they have had to do with. It is seldomthat accidental imprints are met with that are anywhere near as good asthese. The authors have seen accidental imprints that were developed,where not one detail could be checked up; nevertheless they had a certainvalue, as they were of similar patterns to those of the accused, and pre-vented a claim of Non-Identity from being advanced. In obtaining imprints of a
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. Yard, London.) These wonderful reproductions from Scotland Yard are doubtlessfrom among the best ones that they have had to do with. It is seldomthat accidental imprints are met with that are anywhere near as good asthese. The authors have seen accidental imprints that were developed,where not one detail could be checked up; nevertheless they had a certainvalue, as they were of similar patterns to those of the accused, and pre-vented a claim of Non-Identity from being advanced. In obtaining imprints of a suspected person to compare wkh some 276 Personal Identification chance impressions, after taking the bulb impressions, take a set of rolledimprints from each finger its whole length, then prints of the palms, be-cause accidental imprints may have been made by some part of the ridgedsurface of the hand, other than the bulbs of the fingers. Headquartersat Boston, Mass., have photographed four digital marks of a burglarfrom the left index, middle, ring and little fingers, made by dirty. Figure 93. Enlarged photograph of two marks of the same finger, slightly over-laping, found on a box. (From Scotland Yard, London.) fingers on white painted woodwork, and under the circumstances they arevery clear and distinct (Figure 102). At one time one of the authors discovered h faint ridge imprint indried blood on the black handle of a razor, that had escaped observation forfour months after a certain murder. Some thirteen months later an expertphotographer succeeded in obtaining a photograph by using a verticalcamera, with Wratten and Wainwright pan-chromatic plates and a RedA filter. The impression was irregular in shape, and measured about Accidental Impressions and their Development 277 11mm X 5mm. The photograph was made in dayhght and under thecircumstances was a remarkable success (Figure 103). In obtaining photo-graphs of accidental imprints, the most expert photographer that can bef
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