The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . the glass traywere those of a well-known professional burglar, whoserecord had been taken some two years previously, whileundergoing sentence in state prison. As a result theman was arrested and through him, his partner in thecrime, resulting in a conviction and the recovery of mostof the goods. The London police in investigating a burglary dis-covered in the pantry of a house, a partly empty bottleof ale, which had been full the previous day. Therewere finger prints on the bottle, which was protected bya cardboard shield and taken to S
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . the glass traywere those of a well-known professional burglar, whoserecord had been taken some two years previously, whileundergoing sentence in state prison. As a result theman was arrested and through him, his partner in thecrime, resulting in a conviction and the recovery of mostof the goods. The London police in investigating a burglary dis-covered in the pantry of a house, a partly empty bottleof ale, which had been full the previous day. Therewere finger prints on the bottle, which was protected bya cardboard shield and taken to Scotland Yard, wherethe prints of the photograph, afterwards, were found tocorrespond with those of McAllister, who had justpreviously been released from jail. McAllister on hisarrest, in some way learned that they had his fingerprints, and realizing their value as evidence, made acircumstantial admission, which led to the recovery ofthe goods, and the conviction of his partner AlexanderHarley, on whose premises the property was found. OF A DETECTIVE 419. The above is an enlarged print of a right index ringer,which we classify as an Ulnar Loop. Loops on differentfingers are not all alike, but vary in many important char-acteristics, so it is a very easy matter to distinguish onefrom another. 420 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK A half empty bottle of wine was discovered in theroom of an old woman at Asineres, France, she havingbeen murdered. A close examination of the bottle re-vealed finger prints, which were submitted to M. Ber-tillon, the great identification expert, who caused largephotographs to be made, and who after research de-clared they were the imprints of a hospital attendantnamed Gale, who has since been. arrested charged withthe murder-Recently in London a murder was-committed and inorder to destroy any chance of detection, the murderertook the tin of his shoe lace and cut the tips of his fing-ers in all directions. He was suspected of the crime andarrested. The officers fo
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