. Guide to finger-print identification [electronic resource]. Print found on Cash-box (enlarged).. Thumb-print of Alfred Stratton (enlarged).Fig. 21. Deptford Mask Murders. 63 by a twisting movement of a bit of morocco bookbinding. A half-decayed branch of oak, cut in oval section, may make a mark notat all unlike a badly-printed human finger-print. During the periodof the Whitechapel murders (1888-9) a Post card with a reddishsmudge was received by the authorities at Scotland Yard, whichpurported to come from Jack the Ripper. It was printed inalleged fac simile by some colour process, and cop
. Guide to finger-print identification [electronic resource]. Print found on Cash-box (enlarged).. Thumb-print of Alfred Stratton (enlarged).Fig. 21. Deptford Mask Murders. 63 by a twisting movement of a bit of morocco bookbinding. A half-decayed branch of oak, cut in oval section, may make a mark notat all unlike a badly-printed human finger-print. During the periodof the Whitechapel murders (1888-9) a Post card with a reddishsmudge was received by the authorities at Scotland Yard, whichpurported to come from Jack the Ripper. It was printed inalleged fac simile by some colour process, and copies were posted upat the doors of each police station in London. The suggestionseemed almost to be that someone would recognise the miscreant byhis finger-print, the value of which kind of evidence had begun thendimly to dawn upon the official mind. The imprint supposed to bea bloody finger-print—if correctly reproduced—seemed to my poorjudgment to be a smear from some kind of twilled or ribbed fabric,like the sleeve of a coat. I ventured to approach an august depart-ment of the Circumlocu
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