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bs WL SCHMH Laecee nd atl - Feo enter the picture fer the firet time. A shrewd, loce! Farnseas lew erforcezent officer wernt over the doctor's car locking for fingerprints. ne Cririnals Were €3UELTY Bhrewl and knew that fingerprirtys car hang you, as fingerprinte ofter ¢c They thiugnt ther had obliteretel e211 fingerprints Tron the car of the farcered doctor. Eswever, the Farcar Taw erforcerent officer fount a Tétent Pingerprant digression on & winkew of the cer, Poet ee aR es it ae Bent Bo copy of iioit ine Eureay wrere it was receives July 19, PfZe mio gis te the Foresv's fingerpraumt experts @Wlth insvructicn® thai the print. eset Was & very wrnurutl one, shoule be fixes clearly in their minds. trowre geariice, Pour ind@ivicuels were arrested? in various sections ef the country, returned te Gagar, Ccloradc, and izentifies as the Lenk ret ber-guccecrers Pp ranersus intividuele., Wraiie they were eweliting trial in the BVELE Counts anc thaurtee: gornthe efte: the bank robbery ani wardgers. @e set of Cirgerprintes Wer receiver from Stockton, Ceiifornie. or e mar wes hat been ar- resved or the rather triviel charge of vegranty ani relessed. One of our fin- BicRUint especie wee Searching this incening set of fingerprints wher sucdienty _ His Mewory cliche2 - where had he seen the peculiar pattern of one of the fin- @erprint itpressions on the dntoring card? Ther he renenbered + the : ¢ y & IMarder cer. He Went te the catinet where the murder car print wee filed. It matchel Js Fects itr one of the printe on the incoming fingerprint caré. Te -_ the incoming prinvs were those of the metorious Jake Touncer ancther Tace and reiessed. Jane Fleagl WA th resisting arrest and his trother, Ralph, and th uvderere were cartured, returned te Lecer, Cole- radio, tried, corvicte? and? hanged for the murders Four guilty gen killed as the result of one actidentel fingerprint left on the wingcw of the murder car ane cérriel in the ming of ene of our fingerprint eaperte in Bashington for More than thirteer months! But whet about the fcur mer positively identified af ine bank rolter-murderers? hey were innocent of these perticuler crimes The cherge? &@eainet then were dropped, Dut they were found te be invelved in ether off ef ani subfeqvently committed te penitentiaries in other fjurisdic- ir tions tc serve varying terms for felories. This Particurar cafe. which is 4 matter of record, illustrates am isportant point im cenneotion with finger- Print iGerisfication - that fingerprinte serve to acquit the inracent ac well as te convict the guilty. Ir August, 192€ a man walked into the Fermere National Bank of Fitts- Burgh, Fenusyivarie. gresping the hendie of a small tlack bag firmly in hig right hand. Re pushed @ scrawled note through the teller'e cage. in which he Genecces Fo ,000 under threat of biowing up the bank if his devant was refused. The teller eum 2 & tenk gaardé who cautiously eppreeched the bandit. The . bandit made good his threat and in the resulting explosion thirty individuals Were BEriously injured, and the tank building danaced to the extent of $150,000. The breve bank officer was kil)ed and the urknown bandit bicwn literally into a thousand bite. The force of the explosion had bicwn his right hand, still erasyed firmly around the hindie of the little black bag, upward and caused it to etick to the ceiling of the bank. The fingerprints of a dead man, or as in this case, of tie tand of a dead man, can be teken ag well as the fingerprints of a living man, mis was done and a photograph of the fingerprints of the one hand of the dc+d bandit sas forsarded tb our Fingerprint Burosu in Washington. “Tt happens that a fingerprint éapert, If he has the fingerprints of cone hand